USAA’s Diminished Value Methodology

Car Appraisal Blog
/ Tony Rached
/ Updated on June 26, 2014

Below is USAA’s flawed Diminished Value Methodology, it is basically State Farm’s 17c formula but with a few additional tweaks.

Published on June 26, 2014

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