PSU-certified Master Appraisers make an average of $250,000 their first year in business. Master appraisers give certified estimates of value for a wide range of tangible assets, from guns and knives to artwork, real estate, jewelry, antiques and entire estates. A typical Master Appraiser will charge $75 an hour, $250 a report, and/or 6% of the tangible valuation. Advanced appraisers evaluate whole businesses, earn outs, real property, asset purchases and equity exchanges, and can make millions as business brokers.
The PSU database of CMA's is the largest in the world. Clients check the validity of their "paper" by checking our databases thousands of times each day for the certification credentials of their appraiser. PSU's partner publisher (Estate Transactions, Inc. or ETI) is one of the largest estate liquidators in the world, and employs thousands of appraisers each year. PSU Master Appraisers are given projects, listed on the database, and exclusively referred to ETI customers both via estate inquiries and on over 1,000 appraisal websites.
Appraisers are also the heart of the new sight-unseen markets in everything from diamonds and automobiles to rare coins, music instruments and firearms, as sold on ebay and via millions of websites and escrows. PSU-certified CMA's are in such demand that most have a month or longer waiting time. Much of this is due to the much higher value sellers can obtain for an online item if certified and appraised. Our graduates even launch their own provenance and escrow services and represent some of the most successful home based entrepreneurs. In fact, nearly every report is now electronic, so the deliverable is often a .pdf, saving time, effort and cost for the seller.
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