Archives for May 2011

I was talking with a colleague, a residential appraiser, not too long ago. He was talking about the state of the residential appraiser, how the residential appraiser had fallen even further down in terms of respect from clients, borrowers, and legislators. But he wasn’t entirely sympathetic. He minimized the complaints of many residential appraisers that fees were too low and demands too great. His firm was thriving off the very kind of work – from Appraisal Management Companies (AMCs) – that most appraisers find to be Public Enemy #1 in the appraisal marketplace since the advent of HVCC and its de facto continuation under Dodd-Frank. [Read more…] about The “new” appraisal era – Is it here or is it already gone?