Chief Appraiser

THE BODY OF KNOWLEDGE
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Welcome to Chief Appraiser

A couple things worth knowing before you dive in.

Still Being Built — And That's Where You Come In

Chief Appraiser is in beta. That means the tool you're using today is real and already useful, but it's still growing — more guidelines, sharper search, more ways to ask a question the way you'd actually ask it. Every question you search, and everything you tell us through the Feedback button, is how we decide what gets built next.

Why not just use AI?

Because AI alone can sound confident and still be wrong. Chief Appraiser starts with the real guideline document — the actual page, the actual language — so you always know exactly where an answer came from. The plain-English summary underneath is AI, doing what it's actually good at: explaining a citation, not guessing at one.

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50-State Appraisal Law Library

Federal guidelines (HUD, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, USPAP) are the same everywhere. State appraiser licensing law is not — every state writes and enforces its own rules for who can appraise, how they're supervised, and what happens when something goes wrong. Chief Appraiser is building a single, searchable place to find that law, state by state, cited to the real statute and rule text.

3 of 50 states live so far — growing one state at a time. Every search below returns the actual statute or rule language, with a citation, not a paraphrase.
Nevada
NRS/NAC Chapter 645C — the full Nevada Appraiser Licensing Law.
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California
Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers (BREA) — Business & Professions Code and CCR Title 10.
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Texas
TALCB — Occupations Code Ch. 1103 (Licensing) & Ch. 1104 (AMC Act), plus TAC Title 22 rules.
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