Amen, The More marks for us, the better.

Hopefully not in this instance. Full disclosure, Mark is an AGA Member and our Georgia State Representative. Obviously I fully support him. Just as I am more proud than I can say that he took the initiative to do the right thing. Too many just rollover and accept the abuse. Not Mark. He’s not that kind of guy. We need many more like him. Heck, just a couple hundred more like him out of the 75,000 to 80,000+- appraisers left, and we could clean our entire profession AND the AMC/bank abuses up.

I think this is a big landmark in his case, but having said that I’ve seen too many instances involving appraiser or AMC regulatory agencies where the system simply doesn’t work anymore. Fortunately for Mark this is  a United States District Court case. Serious stuff, and not as vulnerable to miscarriage, or after the fact tampering as some Administrative Law Court decisions are. (Yes, California – that last sentence was directed mostly at you, along with a dishonorable mention to Minnesota and Maryland).