Someone got back to me with nice words, said the letter would be forwarded to the work group handling ansi issues. I’m sad, what a waste of 20 years.

Thanks for the link, but what’s the use they don’t listen to us appraisers anyway. When they bring us in it’s just for show. Hey they can push this for the next 3-5 when most of us will probably be retiring then their off with the use of automated systems 100%.

I’ll be moving back home to the islands smoking my Pakalolo watching this circus on TV. Nah probably not…hahaha

Report the size as materially different in a fictitious manner. While not letting this falsified reporting affect the final market value conclusions or credibility of the assignment.

Does the updated FNMA form even have free adjustment lines? The samples I viewed were too small for me to figure that out.

You could always fill the grid normally and do the sketch normally, then take an image grab of that and include it in your report as an image or adobe attachment. Then butcher your net/gross and add a few dozen extra warning errors, fail to bracket, the works. That way reviewers and users can clearly understand why you’ve reported in a manner contrary to market standards and contrary to every other real world indicator except the lunacy imposed with ANSI standards. That’s a good way to handle this if you want to keep moving and will illustrate the hippocracy of this nonsense.

Voice your objections to Fannie directly using this link. While you still can…
https://singlefamily.fanniemae.com/appraiser-contact-us-form

Good for you!

I had a discussion with that AMC and they stated to just put the left out square footage, if any, from the ANSI measurement on a seperate line in the grid and make the adjustment there. RIDICULOUS!

I got the same email and I agree with you 100 percent, this is more BS to put appraisers in out of business. I also got an order for a 1004 that they wanted to pay me $250 for, lots of luck. What an insult.

My buddy independent appraiser is making a killing in private work and attorney work, like $1k to $1.5k avg just to start. This is the front side as they ‘test the market’ with their own brand of ‘mandates’. Lots of that going around lately. They can talk tough until the sun sets, they are not in charge of the independent market and all the decisions individuals make. The best part is they’ll be back. They need you, but you do not need them. Same thing for FNMA. These geniuses think they can use appraisers as a tool to press the entire housing market to implement sweeping changes nationwide. Oh boy, if only appraisers had that kind of influence, we’d have started by sweeping all the amc’s away a long time ago and driven our own fees up substantially. We can’t even get the monkey off our backs or the vultures out of our pockets. How the heck do they think we’re going to influence county assessment offices? The ending to this is predictable but they’ll refuse to relent until someone else can be made a scape goat for their poor decisions and illogical policy implementations. My crystal ball is glowing; There will be a required CE class for ANSI, because the appraisers are just not getting it. Soon we’ll have uspap, racial equality, and ANSI occupying half of our bi annual CE requirements.

Just got off the phone with them and said after 12 years GOODBYE!

Hope there is more that will stand up to this BS.

Thanks. Just posted this in another thread. Repost.

Approximately 40,000 appraisers completing gse work, x $25 per flimsy 16 page ansi ebook, sometimes recurring. $1,000,000. Question, if this is supposed to be the new standard, why do we have to pay for the book? Mortgage giant FNMA can’t negotiate a free copy? Somebody re print the pdf and post it please. We don’t have money to throw away on flimsy digital ebooks.

Well said, I can just imagine what assessors are saying about this stupidity.