Yes retired appraiser that’s the battle axe’s brand of evil…..rotten to the core.

This is the same person who I had a lengthy back and forth with on her site (when you could post comments) about her opinion that her survey met C&R requirements. Although our comments were deleted (by her and team), it was of her opinion that their fee survey was both an independent private sector survey and was of objective third-party information. In fact, she said it was the ONLY independent fee survey that she was aware of. I too question her allegiance, and thus the idea of her data being objective third party.

Seek the truth.

Be sure to order your books through her most recent article so she can also make a buck off of you though affiliate marketing with Amazon. Does this woman eat golden corn flakes so she can see gold in her toilet each morning as well? Talk about a traitor to the profession. 

I’m still puzzled over how she recently proclaimed to Congress that she holds an SRA designation (yet she no longer holds an appraiser’s license). 

SRA Claim Here.

Search For Her Mysterious ACTIVE License Here.

Finders Fee: 1 Box Of Corn Flakes

I suppose if you throw enough money at the AI you can keep your designation for life (active or inactive). Otherwise, she is both a traitor and a LIAR.

My Advice To The Appraisal Buzzard:
Stop pretending you are a friend to appraisers because you were once one yourself. You made the decision to sell out yet you just can’t resist trying to make money via AMCs, AVMs and appraisers. That model just doesn’t work for appraisers. Find another way to gold plate your bathroom fixtures and leave appraisers in peace. This should be your 2017 New Year’s Resolution Joan.

Providing ready manipulable xml files to non licensed non accountable persons is the biggest exposure, so what’s a little license copy on top of that? Just watermark it. Now with FNMA CU in place, most clients don’t read reports anymore, they score them. Some amc’s have already begun to go public and export the earnings they’ve yanked, to the ‘business investors’. My client tells me I’m one of the last solo true independent guys they have on panel. Appraisers with the ability to say no are increasingly rare. Think of amc work as deserving an extra hundred or two fee, since they apply additional scrutiny and demand. Time is money but if you charge enough, any client will do just fine. You have to test them out individually. Regain the professional standing. The most volume for lowest fee thing worked for a while, but does not work anymore for most appraisers these days. It’s self defeating because volume never holds up. If completing appraisals was easy, more people would do it. I’m last of 2 guys out of 60 who were in the CR class with me from 2007 or so.

I’ll bet anyone here a hamburger their top client is not training appraisers, and is also not employing anyone with aspirations to be an appraiser. The most powerful rebuttal I’ve found is to ask people if they’re interested in being an appraiser. Stops the show cold every time, and then up with the fee. I’m not in this job to make friends or pal around with shopping distributors. If they try to shop me I shift to sales mode and reverse upsell instead. Tit for tat. Appraisers who cannot best the ameture distributor phone salesmen have no business judging the credibility of licensed realty agent deals. Shopping for lowest fee and fastest tat is synonymous with seeking the weakest vendor set possible.  aka; see addenda

You are clueless.

Providing your license leaves you exposed to fraud. Have you ever heard of someone copying and illegally using another’s license? Furnish your E&O and you expose yourself to a law suit.

I dedicate this song to both. (Sang to the rebel tune “Dixie”)

SHIFTY

Oh, I’m glad I left,…this job was rotten
Fees these days aren’t worth a snot.
Run away, drive away, fly away from Shifty Land!

In Shifty Land, where you now dwell in,
Jobs are auctioned…life is Hell and…
Run away, drive away, fly away from Shifty Land!

You’ll soon need lots of Whiskey.  Hurray! Hurray!
In Shifty Land you’ll take no stand,
To fight for fees o’er fifty
Don’t give…away…your fees to Uncle Shifty!
Or you…will live…your life just like a Gypsy!

Next day: So sorry, order not actually live, cannot assign. Me: Please don’t distribute orders you are not supposed to be distributing yet. What’s your standard minimum fee? USRES: Resnet is god, and we are moving the standard from 300 to 350! Me: I remember 10 years ago when 350 was the absolute minimum USRES would pay, many orders automatically crawled to $550+ and everything was direct assigned.

Email quote: We work with some of the nations BIGGEST lenders.

(Yes, she actually capitalized that)

Me: Bigger lenders represent more valuation risk and capitalizing the word does not make large lenders any more impressive. Set me to vacation for another 3 years until you get the permanent minimum fees not just back to yesterday, but up to the current standard. You cannot fathom the time drain amc’s as a group represent to appraisers. I do not exist as an independent appraiser to save anyone a dollar or a day. I’m not a temporary laborer standing by for side jobs, and I cannot build my business around a question mark.

Competency analysis; Offering 1,200 up front direct, but only teaser and likely would have gone bait and switch. Assignment agent was spam emailing big fees in anticipation of an order which never actually materialized. Meanwhile nothing is direct but if you’re the teachers pet for the non licensed distributor person, she will call you the ‘go to’ appraiser. All appraisers are substitutable regardless of fee, and national standards are still woefully underpaid at rates less than 20 years ago.

USRES, competent or not? You’re the quarterback, you make the call. I remember when they hired the 7 additional executives and restructured. Fees did not just dip, they went into free fall, and the fees never returned. Well, I hope those execs are good at doing appraisals themselves, they are in fact, claiming the majority of the expenses for the appraisal. One presumes that companies whom take the majority of the payment, actually do the majority of the work. I personally suspect this is a rare but still occasional happening, where the new assignment person read the assignment ledger wrong. I’ve had RELS pull the same thing on accident. They actually do bill $1,200 for appraisal services, and it’s supposed to be a secret, given the 300 standard appraisers fee demand. Yes, it’s true, that’s where the numbers are at for many of these companies. Now, who’s still following the yes man mantra, where their business method is to get more appraisals done for less cost in record time? Fools rush in.

ehh, the 1004 has your name, address, signature, license number & state on it. the state probable has a web site with all that info on it anyway, for anyone to check. and you think hiding your license & e&o will protect you? ok. i always though that it was a good report the would protect you.

i do not believe that AMC’s can require appraiser’s to insure their work. I think insurance and the amount you carry is a personal matter, and is no ones business but your own. Becoming a condition of employment, is their choice. This does not mean I will disclose the amount of insurance or the premium I pay. Push comes to pull I will provide the binder number, and the insurance company. No more.

Attaching a copy of your license, when the number of the license and state issued is on almost all appraisal forms, is stupid.

I wish more appraiser’s would use the word NO.  Not just for this but all unnecessary requests.  I once had a revision request for items I had already discussed in the appraisal report. They asked me to restate them in an addendum at the beginning of the report….WHAT?.    I said “NO, read the report”.

Come on folks…..say NO!