Wayne I agree! I’m going to lose access to this company soon because they want my new license and after three years of snooping on them I just don’t want them to have my updated info.

Hey Koma, as you know, if our fellow appraisers do not provide the income for the AMCs to exist, they will not exist. I do not feel sorry for any appraiser who accepts work from these scum companies and then posts the boo hows! Somewhat comical! Many appraisers are tired of this crap and just watch while the less qualified jump to satisfy their AMC masters! Too funny! (these appraisers think they are smarter than the rest of us!….they have no damn clue)

Hey Bill, I suppose your question was directed for me so I will be happy to answer. We have banks that have created a department to order appraisals. We work with them daily. We also receive assignments from Mercury, etc. I do not consider these to be AMCs. I consider an AMC to be a third party company that gets between my real client and myself. They attempt to control the appraisal process from the fee and delivery time to the actual delivery of the report. I WILL NOT WORK WITH THESE SOBs!

Now for the phone book question. I am not a computer guru! If i need assistance I ask my 8 year old grandson to take care of it for me. I am not alone in this situation. My grandson has very little money…..but some of my old friends that need an appraisal have money. They go to the phone book as that is what they are used to doing. Between 75 to 150 appraisers in my market and only 3 of us have a phone book advertisement. Yes we have a website also…but, gee there are only so many of these appraisals that I can do at one time. My goal is to take a cruise every three months and a few vacations in between. LOL…Life is good! Best wishes to all!

I used to market and solicit all the time.  Now I purposefully delete that old content, try not to solicit ever, and only answer the phone sparingly.

As for your question regarding the phone book! If thats been whats allowed you to maintain a business without any AMC work. I would do it, but if it were me personally, I would invest that money into google rankings. Do you use a phonebook anymore, I certainly dont.

Good luck whatever you choose.

Bill Johnson here in lies the problem. If we all told the banks sorry 10 to 14 days then tell me what choice they would have. Ive been reading all of your posts and it seems they are pushing you around but the only people we can thank for that is other appraisers. We dont need to be at each others throats, but until we can collectively stand up and say no then we will keep getting stepped all over. Take your 5 days to 7, 7 to 9 and make them enjoy the process. Under normal conditions, 5 days is not enough to deal with anything more than a cookie cutter and theres not many of those.

AMC: A parasite encouraged by congress to feed off of the pitiful appraisers who lack the intelligence to stop the thieves of services of appraisal valuation. A group that could be stopped in a heartbeat if appraisers had balls!

Please call 804-873-4968

Pat. Reach out to me if you can.

Uh oh.

I’m not afraid of this space. Never have been. Never will be. I’ve always been outspoken. I’m not a special snowflake. Im what melts snowflakes. It’s ok. I just disagree with what you are saying.

Call it bold. I call it normal. So what? Everyone can take their overdeveloped sense of sensibility and modern pr nonsense, and, well things that have no value typically are discarded or repurposed sooner than later. Capitalizing and shouting regarding SJW content, typically is something only SJW’s do, just FYI. Don’t get triggered. You are not a special snowflake. There is no safe space here.

Really? So what if he said that? Wow. That’s bold. Smh. Took the umph out of the charge? HOW is that. If anything it added to it. Shows how mr Coester really is and adds to the suit. Amazing.

They’re both entirely unbelievable. Sorry charlie, not at all sympathetic about peoples personal relationship problems. Really took the umph out of the plaintiffs charge, that he was so desperate and low he’d have to make up name calling stories. Not buying it for one dang minute. And if Coester said that, so what, he should hire Yananopolis as his new spokesperson or something. Give me a break. Let me get a tiny violin out for all the oppressed people who earn 180 thousand dollars a year. Boo hoo, I’m crying right now. People who live in glass towers should not throw stones.

If work comes in at say $450 for assignments in a region where the work doesn’t get filtered through AMC’s, any thing less than this in my mind is a discounted price/fee. As it relates to a combined effort to fight the evil forces, I have made claims for years to the fact that although we complete the same forms on a national level, our issues vary significantly. If today its standard in my area to have 3 to 5 days from assignment to complete the work, but in your area you get work while quoting 10 to 14 days, then what benefits me doesn’t benefit you. Would I welcome and approve a doubling or tripling of the current time I have to complete my work today (say 10 days VA schedule / national policy), yes. If most of your work is at 10 days and beyond, then moving of the bar would simply improve my situation, while just complicating yours. Its a difficult fight.

“dildos…washed-up faggot…the N word…” This Brian Coester is a real piece of work isn’t he!

Anyone still doing business with him? If so WHY?