But Wayne is so efficient with words

They do not pay full fees if an order is cancelled. They pay a trip fee. I’ve completed over 300 appraisals for Solidifi.

hmmm not me.

Yea…in some areas Appraisers consider a full Fee to be $250 for a 1004

Wayne. You are mistaken.

Then we are asked to go to San Antonio to an appraisal BS conference where the AMCs will sponsor booths and we will be told about bitcoin bullshit, etc. What a waste of time and money! Gee the IQ level of our group just continues to drop! (Go see San Antonio as it is a great vacation spot…bring money!) LOL

Wayne, that is true. However we also have a need to protect the integrity of our profession. AMCs as well as huckster ‘appraisal platform & Product’ providers continue to undermine how we are perceived by the public. ZAIO; PACEPRO, MVP-CearVal, Clarocity and a host of others are always willing to con regular users of real appraisals that their garbage is a viable or meaningful valuation alternative alternative.

OH CANADA! Amc’s who demand my social security number to complete a records check…

They’re just playing the game. In CO they were paying over 700 for appraisals. I’d bet they took it from the group pool and made appraisers elsewhere pay for it with pressed discounts.

Why pick on them individually, when defrauding consumers and anti competitive practices is a result of improperly co mingled fees. There is not a single amc I am aware of that does not engage in such practices.

So true. With Solidifi, they went thru three different regional mgrs. within 16 months. The first was an appraiser who was trying to be fair. Then one day, out of the blue, he mentioned that “we appraisers are the low men on the totem pole, with all of the liability”. I never heard from him again. The next mgr. was very young. After several months it became apparent to her that she was working for Pimps! She disappeared after only four months.

Now and then the new guys confuse the total billing with what the appraiser is to be paid. That happened to me at RELS too once. Standard review, 900 dollars.

Tales from the appraiser crypt.

The amc model and middle management distribution model in general attracts predatory minded people.

Those with upstanding ethic typically wash out or burn out, and there is a rather high employee turnover there.

Amc employment, and desk management employment for non appraisers is like end of the line could not get anything better sort of work.

TBT a lot of appraisal owned AMCs were started simply as a legal means of maintaining their own original long term relationships with area banks and lenders. That sub category has largely failed because the big guys see it as cutting into “their” pie. That’s why the feds want SMALL AMCs to have to pay a per appraiser annual registration fee…yet larger multi states will get waivers.