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How To Build A Better Automated Valuation Model (AVM)

This book will teach you the issues and techniques that are rarely found in textbooks and courses offered by professional institutions. It covers such hands-on chapters as proper sales sampling, broader market time adjustment, categorical modeling, multicollinearity, residual analysis, systematic removal of outliers, etc. to help build a better and more advanced AVM.

Alternate Applications of Automated Valuation Models

This book will teach you the wide-ranging alternate applications of AVMs outside of residential modeling – from the universe of commercial modeling to REO and foreclosure modeling to MLS-based data modeling to stress testing mortgage or assessment portfolios using challenger AVMs, etc. Also included are much sought-after topics like Excel-based modeling, forward sales sampling to minimize sales chasing, and the proper process to evaluate a vendor or vet a consultant.

Bailing out the Dysfunctional US Property Tax System

The property assessment and tax system in the US is totally antiquated and dysfunctional. This book will reveal how this dysfunctional system can be brought back to life, and how the displaced assessing and valuation personnel can be redeployed without having to switch to another industry.

Bailing out the Dysfunctional Civil Service System

The dysfunctional civil system has been plaguing the states and local governments for a long time. Subsequent to the recent financial meltdown this chronic problem has turned into a fatally acute problem, on the verge of pushing a vast majority of them off the bankrupting cliff. This book is written to offer a clear and concise solution to this problem.

How to Predict US Housing Markets with Case Shiller Indices

This book reveals how to use the powerful Case-Shiller indices to analyze, model and predict the future trends of the US Housing Markets. It covers the indices end to end - from the Major Market Indices to Condo Indices to Quarterly National Indices to Tiered Prices to Paired Sales, and many more, with nearly 50 graphic illustrations.

How to Protect Stock Portfolios from Violent Market Swings

Stock markets around the world have become extremely volatile and unpredictable so savvy investors need to understand how to insulate their portfolios from sudden and violent market swings. This self-help book will reveal methodologies that will help professional investors arm themselves with meaningful portfolio solutions to prepare for and fend off such market events.