Comments on: Cuomo Opened the AMC Pandora’s Box

By: Realrose

Realrose — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 17:07:38 +0000

Andrew Cuomo is only another punk New Yorker who is power hungry. One of the appraisers I knew who did only residential work in LA/Southern CA told me Cuomo owned an AMC; I have hated him since the HVCC days, and I know he ruined businesses of many residential appraisers who now work for peanuts. Now they say we are essential? To who? They mean we are essential because we have E&O insurance; later they will sue appraisers when property values decline because they will want to recover from losses they have because they either paid too much for their properties, or they want to scapegoat appraisers. Anyway, in the trump era, experts are suspect; they, with their ignorance about our profession, are not doing anything to help when it would be easy. If I were president, I would take all trump’s hotels and nationalize them, giving homeless, especially black and brown people a free place to live! He is responsible for not acting quickly enough, and his long, incoherent updates on covid virus are attempts to rally his base to vote for him. His incompetence is now killing large numbers of people because he closed the office that would have handled the pandemic, but there you go, those people were only “experts”, and trump is a stable genius, so go out there residential appraisers and risk your life to make peanuts while the gum smacking telemarketers can pimp you out! Two weeks ago I attended 2 webinars, one with appraisal organizations and one with ASB. I wrote the AI lobbyist for federal, Bill Garber and asked why we can’t have a law that says appraisers should be advised of the amount in dollars the AMC is getting to pimp us out. He came up with a lame excuse. These are the guys who are lobbying for us? I vote to replace him with Johnathan; he would be better as he actually is an appraiser and could represent us! Bill Garber was formerly a lobbyist for a mattress company and hails from Oregon; I watch his tweets and he often is discussing his alma mater’s Beavers from OSU! Well, we know where his head is at, and I live in Eugene, Oregon, home of the Ducks! Who cares about sports these days, I just want to make masks and give them away right now; it has become my new hobby! Appraisers should ask for a full fee for a drive by, exterior only appraisal, and they should add some on for hazard pay! Then we will see how essential we are not!

By: Retired Appraiser

Retired Appraiser — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 22:48:29 +0000

And in the end Cuomo raised millions from banks for his election campaign for his success in destroying the competition of banks. A very nice arrangement (for him). Unfortunately for appraisers this horses ask will one day be a major competitor for the White House.

By: Baggins

Baggins — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 21:13:21 +0000

This new workingre article on anti trust is an embarrassment. Claiming appraisers should not have influence in regulation regarding amc’s, when we were instrumental in forcing them to become regulated in the hopes they would stop engaging in anti trust anti competitive practices and forcing us into a pay to play working environment. You mention chewing gum… Apparently the new ‘appraisal panel manager’ at this major lender out of CA, also doubles as a part time club singer. Complete with the expected punk rock haircut. Why do lenders continue to place young people with no actual real estate experience in management jobs over licensed appraisers? That is a serious question and I would like answers.

By: Mike Ford on Facebook

Mike Ford on Facebook — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 18:27:54 +0000

There were contentions that aside from CW and WAMU issues that his law firm or former partners major clients were title companies and this was an accommodation to them. Wonder to this day if there is truth to that.

By: EJ

EJ — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:15:20 +0000

Cuomo, what an idiot. Who died and put him in charge?