Since you seem to know so much about how appraisers work, why don’t you tell me how many appraisers you have personally worked with. Let me know how many of them dig through the county records to find useful comps.
The ones I have dealt with in my experience use the MLS. They may cross check whatever they are using with the county records but that is never a starting point. Furthermore when they find a data point that is way out of whack, they do not use it or they note it is an exception.
When you make an insinuation that this property could be used as a comp that an insult not to people who know about real estate but it lowers the bar for the entire blog.
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Additionally these people did record the sale. You got what you are entitled to Brian, a recorded sale. What irritates you is that you feel entitled to know the details of the transaction. Rather then think there are reasonable explanations you immediately feel it is your business to know because it doesn’t fit the data set. Why that is, I am not sure. Could it be that this person sold to a family member or a friend? Could it be that there is an explanation for it? Regardless of whether the reason is legal or not, why are you entitled to know the underlying circumstances? Is it your job? Are you an IRS agent? Are you an appraiser?
You see, the point here is that the data point not only does not fit the data set, it is so far from the data set, that it doesn’t matter. For you to cry about entitlement to find out the details is odd to me. What is more scary is that it is not a leap of faith to go from wanting to know the details about this sort of stuff, to wanting to know more details about other purchases, or other aspects of our lives that frankly are personal and to this point still gauranteed by our right to privacy.
