Links
 

Useful & Cool links for both
Lender and Homeowner

Adept Appraisal makes great use of the Internet for a wide variety of purposes. We are pleased to offer you a ‘Quick Stop’ for some sites that may be of great value to you. Below are some really neat links, and descriptions of what they are for, so that you can tap into some of the fine resources available in the public domain that help us along the way with our data gathering process.
Table of Contents

Some Official County Sites for Multiple Assessors & Interesting Info
Some Individual On-Line Assessor Links
Zoning Maps
Some Additional Cool Sites
Appraisal Newsletter Sites
Other Links

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The ‘Big One’
This is *the* site if you live in Cook County. Just input your address – your P.I.N. works a lot better if you know it – and good things will happen. You’ll even be able to ‘see’ your home! Can’t beat that if you want to verify what’s up with your Tax Bill, a lender curious about your homeowner’s home, or if you’re just an appraiser and you’d like to see the home you’re about to appraise!

 

Some Official County Sites for Multiple Assessors & Interesting Info:
Greater Chicago Housing and Community Development Website
Official Site for Lake County Assessors
Look at many Lake County properties by address or by individual P.I.N.
An incredible resource of Assessor Links for Northern IL
Lake County Plat Maps
Links for many McHenry County Assessors
Will County Assessor Links
Will County Plat Maps
Geovista Property Plat Map Search
City of Chicago On-Line Maps & Plats Kiosk
ChicagoCondosOnline.com
BuildingCost.net
Sidwell Maps

Some Individual On-Line Assessor Links:

 

 

Zoning Maps
Lenders especially, find out if your Subject property is zoned SFR, Multi-Family, or Commercial. We get a lot of orders that the lender believes are for Residential properties, but are actually Commercial. This site will also explain things like ‘Legal Nonconforming’ zonings so that underwriters will see that despite a nonconforming zoning a deal can still be closed.

Miscellaneous County Sites

 

Some Additional Cool Sites:
Appraisers.com/usa/illinois/
A great site for you lenders! If we don’t cover a certain county for you, this map will tell you who does. And because Adept has formed relationships with many of the appraisers who advertise on this site we can also offer our recommendations in certain circumstances, thus shortening your search time for a good appraiser.

  • National Association of Independent Fee Appraisers – Chicago Chapter Website
    http://www.chicagonaifa.com/
  • National Association of Independent Fee Appraisers – National Website
    http://www.naifa.com
  • ICAP - Illinois Coalition of Appraisal Professionals                                                                                                  
    http://www.icapweb.org/

 

Appraisal Newsletter Sites:
Appraisal Buzz Newsletter
Appraisal Today Newsletter
Appraisal Intelligence

IDPR - Illinois Department of Professional Regulations
License Disciplines
Appraiser Look-Up

 

Other:
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
U.S. Census Bureau
Cook County Recorder of Deeds
MapMart Aerial Mapping (Totally Cool Site!)
2006 USPAP - On-Line Book
Working RE Magazine
City-Data.com (A killer site loaded with fun stuff and facts on cities across the country)
ICAP - Illinois Coalition of Appraisers (Of which several Adept Appraisers are current members)
AppraiserDepot.com (A great place to buy Appraisal Gear!)
Google Earth (Warning, this site is ADDICTING! Take a look at the Pyramids!)
TerraServer-USA (Another great free Aerial Photo site.)
MSN Map Search (This site uses 'Microsoft Streets & Maps,' a fine mapping program.)
City of Chicago - Building Permit Status