I have had a similar issue with Maryann Houmani threatening to withhold payment unless I came in at a certain value. Please post your contact info so that I can contact you Sadie.

Hello Roger,

I’ve had a similar experience with this woman who sounded half a sleep. Would it be ok if i reached out to you?

Hello Jim,

I’ve had a similar experience. Would it be ok if i reached out to you?

(1) What an absolute scumbag organization Amrock is.
(2) THIS is what happens when lenders and AMCs order inspections intending to obtain PIWs which then dont get allowed.
(3) Appraisers should NOT be doing any inspection product which may later come back as an appraisal request for this bottom feeding, low balling deadbeat company.

Amrock you can have your attorneys contact me via my website if you think I’ve defamed you but just keep in mind that truth is an absolute defense, and most appraisers I know believe you defame yourself with your lousy business practices and dishonest behavior. I am encouraging our member to file formal complaints against you with the state regulators in the state this happened in.

HouseCanary is trying to put ALL appraisers out of business with their AVM’s and other valuation products.

Amrock/TSI has at the very least always paid me for the work I’ve completed for them through the VA.

I’d love to see HouseCanary go the way of the Dodo bird…..but I doubt that will happen.

25 years ago I hired the reviewer from a now defunct bank. He used to make our lives impossible on 704’s reading out of his reviewers textbook (apparently). When his bank folded (big bank at the time) I hired him as a trainee. Of 8 trainees that we had, he was the only one that never could learn to appraise. He simply could not grasp the concepts. THOSE  are the people many AMCs staff their order desks with.

Leigh, Respectfully these are not orders that you can legitimately accept anyway. Whoever IS accepting them is already violating USPAP out of the gate.

FNMA requires competency BEFORE accepting an assignment. In two seconds, no one can determine if they are competent to perform the specific assignment or not.

Instead of trying to play their game, we should ALL be working to put an end to these type of broadcast orders for first acceptance/lowest fee wins.

For my part, if I hear or see the name “AMROCK”, my only answer is ‘no’. I’ve never done anything for them as far as I know and would never do anything for any company that operates this unethically.

AMROCK in case YOU didn’t catch the nuance, ANY or ALL companies that push out orders and assign them without having assured yourselves of the specific appraisers competency to do a specific property appraisal is operating unethically and dishonestly. License level is NOT an accepted proof of competency for specific assignments.

Until such time as all individuals at assignment companies are individually licensed, there will be no accountability. I miss the days when we could appeal to licensed qualified people. The same people whom are not qualified to be trainees, are the ones ‘managing’ appraisers these days. From the distributors to the technical software people, professionalism in appraisal is at an all time low.

Jim, IF you were an AGA member, we would willingly file the complaint for you, if requested.. As an independent appraiser you SHOULD file a complaint about the alleged misdeeds attributed to Ms Houmani.

Why try to hang on to a client that is eventually going to throw you under the bus anyway? People that make threats will eventually carry out the one they can at least pretend is legitimate. That of turning YOU in to state regulators over  some meaningless technical oversight that has no bearing on the conclusion.

I am experiencing the exact same things!!!

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I have also had a similar experience with the same person! It was over a different matter but I agree. That Maryann Houmani is a ***profanity redacted***

AMROCK IS AN UNETHICAL COMPANY!!!!!!

Maybe the name change is their way of distancing themselves from the sins of TSI Appraisal? Their credibility and ethics are in question that’s for sure. I too have noticed a change in their practices and attitude toward appraisers, and it’s a change for the worst. I’ve seen a few posts where their staff appraisers complain of crappy orders and borrows who don’t respond, the turn time criteria, and being penalized for things beyond their control. Maybe that’s their client base these days, are they scraping the bottom of the barrel?

LOL it’s obviously working now.

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