Has the Virginia Legislature altered course or was the bill fatally flawed to begin with?

ALL states appear to be revising evaluation definitions right now…right along with TAF, yet we have still not seen ONE EXAMPLE of a real world USPAP compliant evaluation. I wonder why that is?

We can all PAY $39 to TAF for a seminar on how to make them compliant (as if USPAP has suddenly become a great big mystery requiring special courses from TAF, in order to be understood).

We have seen several examples of what AMCs and software vendors think a USPAP compliant hybrid looks like. Not one passes the smell test yet.

What we have seen is a host of proposed or actual products currently being used that are not remotely USPAP compliant. Desktop based cursory comp checks dressed up to look like permissible, USPAP conforming appraisals.

~Bivouac of the Dead~

Might I suggest that appraisers concede the ground that they stand on yet refuse to defend?  It’s far easier to move on to more profitable (and less demanding) ventures than it is to lose sleep by living on a battlefield.  I’ve considered coming back into appraising many times for a few extra bucks.  It’s simply not worth it.  The last of the easy money was extracted by banks (AMCs) in 2009.  It amazes me that the above mentioned entities waste their time fighting over the ligaments and tendons that remain.  I have never seen an industry that came close to writing and rewriting it’s own rules and regulations other than insurance (a business that is actually flush with cash). Amazingly even the insurance business doesn’t have scores of organizations dipping their hands into the till.

Don’t be a one trick pony guys. Life is too short.