Sorry, may have the numbers wrong. The grant money info available pg 11 – 13 of the ASC report.

Correction, CLEAR getting just short of a million over a two year period.

DISB links to ASC on their website. Let’s review what’s happening lately.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220714003924/https://www.asc.gov/Documents/AnnualReports/2021%20Annual%20Report.pdf – Pg 55, 93k appraisers and still falling. And a million dollars to CLEAR group.

What is CLEAR?
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/appraisal-subcommittee-asc-awards-1-million-to-council-on-licensure-enforcement-and-regulation-clear-for-training-and-technical-assistance-to-better-serve-real-estate-appraisal-industry-301326282.html

What are they doing?
https://web.archive.org/web/20220521162821/https://www.clearhq.org/event-4610249

‘An introductory discussion on emerging concepts on Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion (DEI) will be had along with what will be developed in the future to support DEI initiatives.’

Oh that’s nice. What a good reason for ASC to give them a million dollars. Great representation, don’t know about you guys, I feel well represented by my industries dear leaders.

CLEAR group taxes. Sure is a budgetary windfall for ASC to give them a million dollars. As they immediately adopted the talking points so many of us actually licensed people object to.
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/611267676_202206_990_2023060921422792.pdf
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/611267676_201906_990_2021012817668594.pdf
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/611267676_201806_990_2019052416339370.pdf

AARO taxes. Are either one of these filled out properly, lot of blank spaces? Not sure what to make of that, posted anyways. What gives with all the one hour a week people? Wish taxes were that easy for me.
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/911545335_202112_990EO_2023052421306413.pdf
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/911545335_201812_990O_2019121116942980.pdf
https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/911545335_201712_990O_2019022016109866.pdf

O.k., when do the 90,000 appraisers left and falling get a vote what happens in our industry? The abuse of these non profits by special interest groups is just non stop. It’s good that OREP is trying to educate appraisers on the individual level, but we appear to be dealing with systemic industry wide conflicts of interests through non profit networks. What can be done about that?

Doesn’t surprise me that it was staged