I agree, but when you’re knee deep in and they AMC Lender, agent whatever start with the stupid requests, and constant meddling, & nagging how about 6 emails a day and 4 calls telling me the order is overdue, when I have turned it in and their system is down or they forgot to check the system? Just sayin sick of the babysitting responsibilities y’all, time to tell them & I do!

When I bid an order I tell them it’s good for six hours.

It may seem like operational efficiency on that side of the desk. But just like fees, there is a direct relationship to time as well. Amc’s cost appraisers a lot of money and a lot of time. Some of the worst negotiation tactics and most inefficient process implementations ever observed in real estate.

John, join me in my quest to demand that companies like scope and mercury provide appraisers notices of how many other appraisers each and every bid request was sent to.

All these emails come from the same email sending systems. They know how this is working. It’s a question that so far, I have not been able to get them to even acknowledge. Which is telling and indicates to us all we need to know already.

But it’s time they face up to it, the engagement is purposefully being set against the appraiser. Working with these companies is at times like having stock holm syndrome. That’s why I never stop fighting for fair disclosure. Just knocked out a long standing request, ability to stop amc spam bidding with both of them. Now, on to clear transparent indications of competing bid requests so appraisers no longer have to bid in the complete blind, as well as requesting email bidding limitations. I would be fine bidding against like a few other people, but this 10,20,50 different appraisers, not happening.

It’s not reasonable for an amc to have to send out that many emails for a single order. Especially considering the lenders whom have fair fees and direct assignments distribute the majority of their orders, one email, one order placed.

Probably more of an attention grabbing event. After years of not delivering as promised, have to blame someone.

If only lenders knew the same assignment review and processing tools amc’s use are at the lenders disposal with the same technical distribution companies many amc’s buy into… Stop outsourcing and create a new job already. It’s called an appraisal assignment position and any lender can do it.

Keys to success in appraisal distribution are simple; Do not impose additional scope of work. Do not impose indemnity agreements. Do not impose artificial deadlines but rather stick to rate locks and contract dates. Do not improperly co mingle billing. Do not bid when there is a confirmed consumer disclosed fee for appraisal services already in place. Do not skim off the appraisers fee. Give it a rest with the performance grading approach. Have a fair fee range for all panel vendors. Assign orders fairly.

When there are more ‘managers’ than people being managed…

Worked years for this, finally got through.These amc’s, no matter how many times we say please stop sending us spam bids, they persist. What other company is not allowed to unsubscribe from unwelcome solicitations, unless they risk losing valid work? UNSUBSCRIBE! Now a possibility, just write support at appraisal scope dot com, forward the spam bids with the request.

Also important to reiterate; If you use the spam button within your own email you could unknowingly become blind to direct assignment orders which come through these systems. So also a good idea to write in and ask for your email to be turned on and/or assure it’s active. If you click spam on an amc, you may then in turn get blocked with direct assignment work from totally different companies. Because they come from the same email servers and your email does not recognize the difference between this sender or that sender, as it recognizes all as the same sender, having all originated through Scope systems. Then manage the spam requests which will follow via the support desk, turn them off one by one. The thing is if you press spam, they’ll turn off all your emails and you’ll never see them, direct lender invites, orders, and amc bids. They finally offered a way to turn off amc contacts per request per company. It’s been a relief at least for the few months.

Your experience mirrors mine almost to a tee. I haven’t retired yet, however.

I’ve developed a bit of frankness with them that may or may not be considered ‘professional’. I actually told a couple pesky callers without making the comment personally pointed at them that these incessant requirements for updates were akin to having a 7 year old in the backseat on a road trip. ‘Are we there yet? Are we there yet?’

I easily turned away 20 orders for every 1 that I accepted. It is no joke that just turning down work became a full time job. Good help was hard to find in my area and I tried, but this just tended to make matters worse when they too buckled under the pressure. I did my best, with best intentions but this old lady got chewed up and spit out. The stress from the past 2 years has led me to join the Great Resignation last month. After 25 years, I “retired” 5 years ahead of schedule and just taking part-time deskwork where I can and hoping my finances will adapt. It’s that, or an early grave.

And they even do it after stating “your requirements have been accepted, please move forward with the order”. You call the POC and they state that an appraiser has already been out to the property. Go back to the company and wait a day or two then they shoot you an email saying oh it’s been cancelled.

No AMC pity from me either!

Oh preach!

Thanks for sharing this info

Truth…completely useless tools

Yep, 24/7 and 365