Appraisals are NOT taking 6 weeks. In the past 3 months I've done 4 SFH/2-units, and between scheduling with the tenants that took the most time, it took about a week or so to get in, and the appraiser took not more than 7 days to get back the appraisal report. 3 weeks process start to finish. Then we took another 2.5 weeks to close, but that wasn't my fault, it could have closed easily within 10 days had I prepared for the appraisal to come in at $125,000 (when in January when we tried TWICE it came in at $71,000).