{"id":"478a9d7d-d020-4080-812d-e4aa96603c8f","task":"Determine the current USPAP edition and how its update cycle works","domain":"real-estate-appraisal-regulatory","steps":["Go to appraisalfoundation.org/pages/uspap for the current USPAP status.","Confirm the current edition (the 2024 Edition, effective January 1, 2024, at time of writing) and note that USPAP no longer follows a fixed two-year edition cycle — it stays in effect until the Appraisal Standards Board adopts and publishes a revision with a new effective date.","Note that Advisory Opinions and FAQs were split out of the core USPAP document into a separate Guidance and Reference Manual starting with the 2024 edition.","Separately confirm the 7-Hour National USPAP Update Course requirement still runs on its own two-calendar-year cycle, independent of the USPAP document's edition cycle.","Check for newly effective AQB Qualification Criteria items that ride alongside USPAP but are distinct from it (e.g., a valuation-bias/fair-housing course requirement effective January 1, 2026, on its own biennial cycle)."],"gotchas":["Don't assume USPAP still updates on a fixed two-year schedule like pre-2024 editions — it is now open-ended; check the ASB's site for the current effective edition before citing a year.","The 7-Hour Update course cycle and the USPAP document's edition cycle are two different things now — conflating them produces wrong compliance dates."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-14T02:30:25.966Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/478a9d7d-d020-4080-812d-e4aa96603c8f"}