Comments on: Have You Been Blacklisted by Lender?

By: Mike Ford, CA AG; AGA, GAA, RAA

Mike Ford, CA AG; AGA, GAA, RAA — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 22:59:34 +0000

In reply to Baggins.

Baggins, I have a list of over 10,000 appraisers that have been blacklisted (from a ‘friendly’ AMC). It goes back a LONG way. I wanted to publish it so all could check for themselves but IF I did so, then I could be incurring liability to these very same appraisers by republishing the list. Additionally, I don’t want to be a further source of introducing such a list to the public domain via online publishing.

What I WILL do is give the list to any American Guild of Appraisers member ( http://www.appraisersguild.org )that asks me for it. It’s in an EXcel spreadsheet format. Only about 3,000 of the over 10,000 appraisers were reportedly added in the past ten years.

By: Baggins

Baggins — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 21:48:19 +0000

This story only captures half the story though. There surely is a blacklist floating around for appraisers who have demanded fair fees and refused improper engagement. The very act of secretive and shared blacklists is an affront to appraiser integrity. If these lenders and amc’s have do not use lists, they should publish them and be able to back the results. Occasionally they are found by appraiser researchers and posted on various web sites. The lenders or whomever promptly throws a fit and has the links or data removed. What about an appraiser who is blacklisted for refusing engagements without ever completing an order? That’s probably the most common type of blacklisting; refusal to play ball.

By: Retired Appraiser

Retired Appraiser — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 18:49:34 +0000

Appraisers should be so lucky as to be blacklisted by an AMC.

If you are smart you’ve blacklisted yourself from every list and left the business for all of eternity.

By: Barry Bates

Barry Bates — Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:49:48 +0000

Finally some appraisers are banding together on this stuff; check out hellsappraisers.org