What is a "Cost Approach (if developed)" on an appraisal?

What is a "Cost Approach (if developed)" on an appraisal? We are trying to buy a house and it appraised at 120,000, but says the cost approach is 130,000... I'm getting mixed messages looking online, so what does it mean to the buyer?


Appraisals are done using three methods:

1. Cost approach - the amount it would cost to build the house
2. Market value approach - the amount other similar houses have sold for in recent weeks
3. Income approach - the amount

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Is the Chipko Movement Towards Forest Appraisal | Sprint ...

The forests of India are the unique resources for the survival of the rural people of India which were exploited greatly for commerce and industry. Women played a unique role in making success of the Chipko Movement because they being the dependents on the fuel, wood and fodder for survival found it difficult to procure them for over the last several decades. The Chipko Movement of India taken birth in Himalayan foothills gained great significance throughout the world’s environmentalist circles for its successful efforts against deforestation. Chipko, which means literally “to embrace” has spread to many other parts of India and has drawn worldwide attention for its resourceful efforts to fight against deforestation and thereby protecting ecology and society. This is the need of the forests for the women and her family’s survival. Durning the dry season, when upto 80% of the livestock feed is supplied by the forests, their afternoons are also taken up to search for the leaf fodder.......

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Research and Markets: Product and Process Modelling. A Case Study Approach
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Advising people to eat less salt is not best approach to reduce CVD
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Facebook Unfriends Third-Party Friend Exporter
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Personalized Mammography?
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Formal approaches to function in grammar, in honor of Eloise Jelinek
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Formal approaches to function in grammar, in honor of Eloise Jelinek

On the approach developed here, this follows automatically. If, in the case at hand, each ranking has an equally likely chance of occurring, ...

Evaluation of the integrated approach developed in the context of the IIMI- Cemagref collaboration in Pakistan: Lessons from a series of workshops and seminars for researchers, policy makers and irrigation system managers Evaluation of the integrated approach developed in the context of the IIMI- Cemagref collaboration in Pakistan: Lessons from a series of workshops and seminars for researchers, policy makers and irrigation system managers

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