Hiding in the shadows doing their own things to benefit their board I am sure. Cindy has given so many hope, may she be able to continue her fight! If not, we need to tear AI apart, piece by piece.

Let’s go for $75,000!!!!

Where’s the APPRAISAL INSTITUTE??!!??

Everyone has been great ..Thanks to all ..can’t tell you in words what your support means ..

I too am praying for a quick resolve and a president for an end to these false claims of racism because someone simply doesn’t get their way. The lawyers are a disgusting profession that only see dollar signs and could care less about justice. This is such an important case that victory will send a strong message to those seeking a simple money grab at the expense of someone’s reputation.

I’m very grateful that you gave not once but again ! It’s a shame that with 80,000 members the appraisers don’t have more say in the process besides having to group fund ..at this point I’m also grateful that the E&O didn’t want to settle at their first claim ..The law firm believes in this case and is fighting hard for a just ending as well as the insurance company up to their limit ..hopefully the judge will deliver a summary judgement and end this lawsuit before resources become harder to defend ..we’re praying and have our fingers crossed for a just ending ..your donations are appreciated and your support through your words of support definitely helps ..Thank you !

Their websites and the ones you shared are way too nice to be grassroots. They smell like 3rd party money…

Thanks for responding Steve. Although not specific to appraisers EO insurance, the above video still has many similarities to what appraisers may deal with. The insurance funds are available. The insurer is not covering what is needed to protect their insured. Where is the defamation from false complaints which extends additional litigation coverage limits? Every single appraiser is now effectively under insured.

At what point does this become an institutionalized process of filing complaints against appraisers and insurers risk going insolvent, leaving appraisers to deal with this as effectively uninsured? They’ve got billboards and advertising signs up; Sue the appraisers for racial discrimination! This does not sound like good faith insurance practices. I’ll give some money to this again but this is not a sustainable defense model for the rest of us.

Shane said; Through an insurance policy I carry, I have limited funds (only $100,000) to cover the costs of the lawsuit through investigation, discovery, motions, and trial. However, my understanding is that the $100,000 amount will not be enough to take this case through trial both defending myself from the false allegations and prosecuting the defamation case.

I’m sure if the funds were available the appraiser would have sued ABC and NYT ..they’re the ones that gave Connolly the platform to broadcast his unverified claim ..NYT rebroadcast the story March 24 so that may open a door due to statute of limitations that ran out after one year ….Relman Colfax which is Connolly’s law firm should be held accountable in my opinion..they didn’t even open a complaint with the state appraisal board or hud ..if they would have done just a basic opinion of the 2 reports this thing would have been stopped cold ..but no ..the story was too good and the facts didn’t matter …2 years plus and counting ..

Another non profit. Formed 07/23.

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EIN# 88-3073054
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Dismantling white supremacy. Restoring equity. Has developed an eappraise tool and has a 5min video on the services tab site. They’re using some form of depreciated age life tool of home components to determine home value based on PDC type data collecting, w/ no mention of land value differentials or comparative market amenity. As if a homes determinate value is material and depreciation only, disregarding other influential factors. Appraisers will find the concepts quite familiar, because it’s a hypothetical type of approach using ordinary and extra ordinary assumptions. Also proposing a flat fee loan origination program based on a type of individual bond purchase for locals. These are interesting proposals, everyone should watch this five minute video. However, the realities of such a utopian concept may not stand up very well to things like online hackers, the need for legal service funding, title monitoring for fraud, the inevitable grifters whom would seek to exploit the program, corporate influences. In a surprising twist of events, we’ve actually found someone whom seeks to answer my favorite question; What exactly is wrong with lower housing prices? Quite interesting. Were those approaches and theories to be applied by a licensed appraiser under FRT (federally regulated transaction) for real world lending assignments, automatic rejection of the appraisal would be for certain. Meet your new administrative appraisal reviewer.

Folks should look into the term “struggle session”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session

Because that’s where this insidious bullshit is leading…

Have you ever seen the series ‘insurance wars’? About public adjusters whom represent insured home owners during disaster and claims processes when their insurers fail in their duty to provide adequate insurance coverage. aka; limiting claims coverage. They talk about total incomes of insurers and how poorly they handle claims. The public adjuster steps in as the only person actually representing the home owners best interests.

How much do appraisers collectively pay for EO insurance? An average of $750 a year per appraiser x 80,000 appraisers nationally. That’s 60,000,000 sixty million dollars income every single year EO insurers are raking to provide appraiser coverage. Why don’t they step up on this important issue, instead settling claim after claim thereby incentivizing more lawsuits to be filed?

Am I reading this correctly that an appraisers EO insurance will not even cover a single court case under current market conditions? Shouldn’t insurers raise their limits if this is the new situation?
Why isn’t the appraisers insurance company suing everybody involved which led to this? We are observing a battle of corporate giants. Home owners whom are continually steered to submit these complaints are the way in to the insurers pockets. Appraisers are merely collateral damage, innocent bystanders.

Donated.

If appraisers will allow AMC’s to collect a $25 tech fee, we can surely support another appraiser.
Give what you can.

Exactly