Well, I fail to see that “admission”, but if you are asking whether I will have a zero tolerance policy toward purported appraisal products that claim to be USPAP compliant (but aren’t); performed for fees that cannot reasonably account for more than a few minutes or a professional appraisers time, by local real estate agents as CMAs converted to market value opinions or estimates and which absolutely undermine the future survival of my profession, then I guess the answer to your question is an unashamedly  “Yes.”

I will absolutely be biased and already AM biased against ALL bullshit dressed up and packaged or promoted to pretend it is an appraisal.

You see Dennis, there is no moral or ethical prohibition against my being biased against bad work. Hell there isn’t even a SR3 requirement for a lot of it.

http://appraisersblogs.com/clearval-value-hybrid-appraisal#comment

I remain mystified why the mortgage origination distributors are not routinely penalized for their obvious infractions. He did not state he would be biased, he stated he would be highly critical which is his normal approach anyways.

So you just admitted that you will be biased.

The real issue is not the ASB requirements, it’s that some appraisers won’t adhere to the standards (cut corners) in order to get work from certain clients.

Try not to do it as a ‘review’ – just ‘ask questions (if you can) instead of saying they did this or that wrong. – but definitely turn every single one in for even the tiniest mistake.(the mistakes wont be tiny).

These are putting appraisers out of work already. Even regular AMCs that dont handle these are seeing a volume drop (yeah, I know – we don’t care – except if they have no work, then ‘WE’ have no loan work either).

Tomorrows AB may have a sample of one posted in its entirety. All can see what we are talking about.

Seriously, hyperbole with no point in sight.

Oh god, save your political judgements. Weaponized media is real. Please site your informational source regarding the political leanings of the union members for the union you have not yet joined. Fail. Spin much?

I would also add that per USPAP:
“When a signing appraiser(s) has relied on work done by appraisers and others who do not sign the certification, the signing appraiser is responsible for the decision to rely on their work. The signing appraiser(s) is required  to  have a reasonable basis for believing that those individuals performing the work are competent. The signing appraiser(s) also must have no reason to doubt that the work of those individuals is credible.”

“have a reasonable basis for believing that those individuals performing the work are competent”

I’m pretty sure appraisers are not vetting these 3rd party inspectors and just relying on amcs for selecting the fastest and cheapest so-called “inspectors”. I can’t wait to see these appraisers hang out to dry by their boards & E&O, and drowning in lawsuits!

I’m reminded of the proverbial three monkeys; Hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil.

They have finally crossed over the line and essentially neutered all of USPAP. From now on compliance is not measured by what the actions of ones peers would be, but rather on how well someone can boilerplate and argument asking what the meaning of ‘is’ is.

Sophistry over substance. Well done TAF!