About Valley-Wide Appraisal Services
Background, license, and standing for the appraiser who handles every assignment personally, from inspection to signed report.
Daniel R. Nelson
Daniel R. Nelson has been the owner and principal appraiser of Valley-Wide Appraisal Services since June 2021. The business is a sole proprietorship, not an LLC — when you call, you reach the appraiser directly, not a dispatcher or a franchise office.
Before starting Valley-Wide, Daniel worked at Fatzer Appraisal Group Inc. in Sacramento. He joined as a Senior Data Analyst from July 2019 to April 2021, where he collected and interpreted data supporting residential appraisal assignments and reviewed reports for accuracy and compliance with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac requirements. From April to June 2021 he worked there as a Licensed Residential Appraiser before founding Valley-Wide.
Today he completes roughly 75 to 100 residential assignments a year across the Sacramento Valley and surrounding counties.
License, insurance, and standing
The details a homeowner, attorney, or lender would want to confirm before relying on an appraisal.
- License
- Licensed Residential Real Estate Appraiser, California Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers, License No. AL3008584
- License status
- Active through February 18, 2028
- ASC National Registry
- Listed and verified. View the registry record
- E&O insurance
- $1,000,000 each claim / $1,000,000 aggregate, in force through March 1, 2027
- USPAP
- 7-Hour National USPAP Update Course current
- Continuing education
- McKissock Learning, averaging about three courses a year
- Professional standing
- License in good standing, with no disciplinary action, no complaints on record, and never removed from a client panel for cause
What "Licensed Residential" means for you
California's Licensed Residential credential covers homes with one to four units: single-family houses, condominiums, townhomes, and duplexes through fourplexes. That includes the great majority of homes in the Sacramento region.
When the appraisal is for a mortgage from a federally regulated lender, such as a bank or credit union, federal appraisal rules put value ceilings on this license: under $1,000,000 for a typical home, and under $400,000 for one that is unusual in its design, form of ownership, or market, which appraisers call a "complex" property.
Those ceilings apply only to that kind of lender work. Private assignments such as estate and date-of-death valuations, divorce, pre-listing, and property tax appeals involve no lender, so there is no value ceiling on them. Every assignment, private or otherwise, is still completed under the same professional appraisal standards (USPAP) and taken on only where Daniel has the competence for that property. If he doesn't, you'll be told so before any work starts.
Have a question before you request an appraisal?
Call or send a message with the details of the property and what the appraisal is for, and you'll hear back directly from Daniel.