A computer-based method for validating an appraisal report includes
receiving appraisal data for a property, receiving property data for the
property, verifying the appraisal data meets an appraisal guideline,
providing a list of appraisal items that are present in the appraisal
data, providing a medium discrepancy amount and a high discrepancy amount
for the list of appraisal items, calculating a difference amount between
the appraisal data and the property data for each appraisal item, and
comparing the difference amount to the medium discrepancy amount and the
high discrepancy amount.