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Waste, Fraud & Abuse Flourished Under Former Secretary Fudge

Jeremy Bagott — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:30:28 +0000

Appraisers harassed by HUD under Fudge know far more waste, fraud, and abuse is still buried. A report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development found that more than $5 billion in taxpayer funds were paid to unknown parties during former HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge’s final year atop the agency. The payments reportedly included aid to roughly 30,000 deceased individuals and thousands of ineligible recipients. In fiscal year 2024, according to the report: $77 million was paid to deceased tenants $150 million went to recipients with non-existent Social Security Numbers $288 million went to pay excessively high rents...

HUD Secretary's Comments Evoke Folly of 1919 Sex Scandal Secretary Fudge launched into what sounded remarkably like discriminatory rhetoric: "The problem is who is in the appraisal industry. When…
The Great Debate on Appraisal Fees She included several different fee split examples indicating AMCs retained as much as 70 percent of the total appraisal fee…
Marcia Fudge leaving HUD! Marcia Fudge is also the current co-chairperson of the PAVE Task Force Committee, so that group’s philosophy may also be…

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The Appraisal Profession’s Perfect Storm: A Veteran’s Take on a Dying Craft

Desiree Mehbod — Fri, 02 May 2025 12:30:49 +0000

The new UAD form, the AMC fee gouging, the waivers, the false bias claims. It’s a perfect storm of assaults. I’ve been an appraiser since 1993, back when fax machines were cutting-edge and the internet was a clunky novelty. Over three decades, I’ve seen this profession weather storms, economic crashes, regulatory overhauls, you name it. But what’s happening now? It’s not a storm; it’s a tsunami. Our industry is hemorrhaging talent, drowning under false accusations, and getting squeezed by corporate greed and bureaucratic overreach. As someone who’s stubbornly refused to bend the knee to Appraisal Management Companies (AMCs), I’m here...

A Cry from the Appraisal Trenches: The Fall of GSE Oversight That could bring our best and brightest back to GSE lending, leveling the playing field with fairer work distribution. Picture…
GSE Exec Boasts Scheme to Slash Appraiser Numbers At a recent appraisal event, a GSE executive, after a few drinks, privately told his nearby colleagues that we suck…
The Shadowy AMC Fees Draining Billions from Homebuyers The hidden costs of appraisal management companies (AMCs) in the real estate industry have faced growing scrutiny, as highlighted by…

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Fannie Mae Fraud and Abuse Exposed

Jeremy Bagott — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:30:41 +0000

History of waste, fraud & abuse at this rogue organization… Fannie Mae reported this week it had fired more than 100 employees for unethical conduct, including facilitation of fraud. Expect more such news as the truth emerges about this organization’s activities over the past half-decade. At the beginning of the decade, under the protective camouflage of its federal conservatorship and Covid-19, Fannie began eliminating critical checks and balances in a radical experiment with U.S. taxpayers’ money and the U.S. economy. The mortgage giant began scrapping or weakening long-accepted underwriting safeguards like standard FICO scoring, title insurance, mortgage insurance, downpayments and...

Canadian Banks Will Exploit Gutted U.S. Mortgage… Canadian banks see the newly dismantled underwriting safeguards and risk-shedding experiments at Fannie and Freddie as a way to keep…
Dear Representative, FNMA Has Gone Rogue! Dear representative, waiving/eliminating property appraisal for lending purposes is wanton recklessness. Fannie Mae’s decision to waive/eliminate property appraisal for lending…
Fannie Mae Filed a Complaint Against Me An appraiser shared the following with us which was posted on one of the appraisers’ groups. Fannie Mae filed a…

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NFHA Funding Dries Up

AppraisersBlogs — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:30:37 +0000

The NFHA is feeling the heat as their funding evaporates, putting a major kink in their anti-appraiser crusade. The National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA) has found itself in a precarious position as their funding well runs dry, jeopardizing their ongoing legal battle against Maryland appraiser Shane Lanham. This development is a ray of hope not only for Lanham, who has been unjustly accused of racial bias in his appraisals, but for the entire appraisal community who have been unfairly targeted by NFHA’s relentless smear campaign. The NFHA, in cahoots with the Biden administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...

USPAP’s Typical Buyer Standard in the Fair Housing Era The Irreconcilable Conflict Between USPAP's Typical Buyer Standard and the Current Fair Housing Compliance Regime. Retain this document as a…
The Town With No Bank: How Rural America Lost Its… For decades, we’ve been told that the problem is demand. That people don’t want to live in rural America anymore.…
Maxine Waters Wants Appraisers Investigated On February 22, 2022, Maxine Waters sent a letter to HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, TAF, ASC and AI regarding ongoing…

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