Enrollment
ENROLL IN COHORT ONE.
EARN VALUATION VERIFIED™.
A twelve-week course designed to expand your valuation practice, strengthen your work, and build a better business around the expertise you already have. Cohort One prepares you to complete the qualifications for Valuation Verified™.
Cohort One begins January 6, 2027
Enrollment closes November 3 at 11:59 PM ET
Founding Cohort • $995
More than a course. A credential you earn.
Completing the course is one part of earning Valuation Verified™. What comes next is showing how you apply that work in your own practice. After twelve weeks of instruction, casework, and collaboration, you'll move into the final qualification process designed to demonstrate your ability to apply what you've learned to your own practice and your own work
What you’ll learn
Twelve weeks. Five objectives. A broader approach to your appraisal practice.
THE ROAD TO NICHE VALUATION
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ENGAGEMENT + ASSIGNMENT CONDITIONS
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SUPPORT IT
EXPLAIN YOUR CONCLUSION
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MARKETING, OUTREACH + BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
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This course is designed to help experienced residential appraisers expand beyond traditional lender work and approach more complex, niche, and non-lender assignments. Over twelve weeks, you’ll explore how to identify and pursue different types of valuation work, scope assignments appropriately, strengthen the support behind your analyses and conclusions, communicate those conclusions clearly, and build a practice around the work you want to do.
What to expect each week
Plan on 3–5 hours each week, with approximately three hours of instruction and two hours of casework designed to put what you’re learning into practice.
designed for community
Twelve weeks of learning, casework, conversation, and connection, with a structure designed to give you both expert instruction and a smaller circle of women to learn alongside. You’ll have space to ask questions, exchange ideas, work through challenges, and learn from women with different experiences and perspectives.
WEEK ZERO
Get settled before we get started.
Before the course officially begins, Week Zero gives you time to get oriented, declare your practice area, prepare your work file, complete your pre-reading, and meet the women you'll be learning alongside.
YOUR POD
A smaller circle within the Collective.
You'll be placed in a pod of 8–10 women from different markets, a place to exchange ideas, work through challenges, ask questions, and build relationships without sitting alongside your direct competitors.
YOUR FOUNDING FACULTY
Learn from women who are doing the work.
Ten founding instructors bring experience across different specialties, markets, and areas of valuation practice. You'll learn from women who have built their own paths in the profession and get more than one perspective.
Is this for you?
✓ You’re a licensed or certified appraiser.
✓ You have a strong foundation in residential appraisal.
✓ You’re ready to move beyond traditional assignments.
✓ You want to pursue complex, niche, or non-lender work.
✓ You want to better support and communicate your conclusions.
✓ You’re ready to think about your appraisal practice as a business.
EARNING VALUATION VERIFIED™
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Define the practice you’re building, the work you want to pursue, and how you plan to take it to market.
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Submit one of your own narrative appraisal reports for independent review against the standards established for Valuation Verified™.
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The Standards Council establishes and maintains the standards behind Valuation Verified™. A separate Review Panel applies those standards through a blind review process, keeping the people who set the standard separate from the people evaluating the work.
Completing the twelve-week course is the first step. To earn Valuation Verified™, you’ll then demonstrate how you apply what you’ve learned to your own practice and your own work.
Beyond the credential
Valuation Verified™ is designed to be put to work. Once you earn the credential, it becomes part of how you present your expertise to clients, colleagues, and the broader market.
YOUR CREDENTIAL
Display Valuation Verified™ with your name and carry it with you throughout your career.
YOUR DIRECTORY LISTING
Be included in the Valuation Verified™ directory, giving prospective clients another way to find you and understand the work you’re qualified to take on.
A BROADER MARKET
The Valuation Collective will actively introduce Valuation Verified™ appraisers to the attorneys, agents, lenders, and other professionals who need this kind of valuation expertise.
Get found for the work you do
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Get found for the work you do 〰️
The Valuation Verified™ directory is designed to connect your expertise with the people looking for it.
Once you earn Valuation Verified™, your profile will be included in a searchable directory where attorneys, agents, lenders, and other prospective clients can find appraisers equipped for complex, niche, and non-lender assignments.
And we’re not simply waiting for them to find you. The Valuation Collective will actively introduce Valuation Verified™ appraisers and their services to the professionals who hire this kind of work.
Meet your founding faculty
FAYE LEFURGEY · KELLI MAYHEW · LORI NOBLE · MIGDALIA RIVERA-SANJURO · GWENDOLYN F. SIMS · ERICA BUTLER · MALINDA GRIFFIN · JOANN APOSTOL · EMILY BRAMAN · MEGAN JOHNSON JUDD
THE First COHORT. be there at the beginning.
Cohort One is the first group to move through The Valuation Collective and pursue the Valuation Verified™ credential. You’ll learn alongside the women who are helping establish what this community becomes and be among the first appraisers to carry Valuation Verified™ into the market.
FOUNDING COHORT TUITION · $995
Your investment for the twelve-week Cohort One course and the path to earning Valuation Verified™. Future cohorts will be offered at a higher tuition rate.
Cohort One begins January 6, 2027
Enrollment closes November 3 at 11:59 PM ET
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to be licensed or certified?
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Yes. Cohort One is designed for women who are already licensed or certified residential appraisers. It is not designed for trainees.
Is this a review course or continuing education?
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No. Cohort One is not continuing education or a review course. It’s a twelve-week course designed to help experienced residential appraisers expand their valuation practice and prepare for the final qualifications required to earn Valuation Verified™.
How much time should I expect to spend each week?
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Plan on approximately 3–5 hours per week, including roughly three hours of instruction and two hours of casework.
Are the sessions live or recorded?
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Both. The course includes live instruction, and recordings will be available
How does the Valuation Verified™ directory work?
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Once you earn Valuation Verified™, you’ll be included in the Valuation Verified™ directory, designed to help attorneys, agents, lenders, and other prospective clients find appraisers with the expertise they need. The Valuation Collective will also actively introduce Valuation Verified™ appraisers and their services to professionals who hire this type of work.
Is there an annual renewal for Valuation Verified™?
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Yes. Valuation Verified™ is renewed annually.
Is there a payment plan?
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Yes. You can pay the $995 Founding Cohort tuition in full or choose a three-payment plan.
Can men enroll?
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Our program is designed specifically for women appraisers.
