(more hijacking, sorry. FWIW, it seems that the appraiser isn’t supposed to include the unpermitted additions in the appraisal, but their duties beyond that seem to vary.)
[quote=HLS]The information that many of you believe is simply ignorance about appraisers.
My preferred appraiser tells me what a house is worth, I don’t tell him. He doesn’t have targets to meet or lose my business.[/quote]
So far, so good.
[quote]If it isn’t a purchase, he doesn’t know what the loan amount is.[/quote]
I hope this is a typo or misstatement. If not, why should an appraiser know anything about the loan amount? If you can’t see the obvious problem here, then I don’t know what to tell you.
[quote]I am one of his best clients and get great service and priority for borrowers.[/quote]
I don’t understand this one, either. Why should the appraiser care about “priority for borrowers”? He’s there to give a professional, unbiased opinion of what the property is worth.
[quote]Any appraisal is the opinion of the appraiser, it isn’t an exact science, but should be close when there are model matches.[/quote]
Yeah, those “opinions” really worked out well for buyers in the 2002-2007 period, didn’t they? The fat origination fees were pretty sweet for the lenders and brokers, though.
[quote]Business relationships aren’t built on cronyism. They are built on service and other factors.[/quote]
One of those “other factors” has been a complete disregard for industry standards. Same thing happened in loan origination with underwriting, so it’s not like they were the only ones.
[quote]Your income could be threatened in your business if YOUR customer was told that they can no longer do business with you.
You need to go to a third party and they will provide you with what you need by a party of their choosing, and the provider will be getting 50% of what they previously received for doing the exact same work.[/quote]
If you’ve been around a while, you know that the late ’80s brought a lot of changes to the appraisal business as a result of abuses related to the S&L bust. Professional appraisers mostly stuck it out and changed with the times. There’s no reason to believe this will be any different.
[quote]Some of you just don’t get it. I don’t wish that it happens to you. It will ruin the income/careers of many good people who enjoy what they do.[/quote]
I’ve been there, and it seems like no fun at the time. The good news is that there’s a whole wide world of things to do for a living, and without some kind of kick it’s likely you’ll never try anything else.
[quote]This is bordering on a dictatorship/socialism.
It’s going to get worse…. HLS[/quote]
Yes, “it” is getting worse … but not because the appraisal industry is yet again getting some restrictions placed on it because of its widespread failure to do its job ethically.
