For those of you that THINK you NEVER EVER did a misleading Appraisal. Just remember: the Jury will be made up of 12 home owners 10 of which will be upside down on their house. & most will have a friend that has or is loosing their home. & not one Juor will be able to spell USPAP!! In order to prepare for a trial the average prep cost is 50,000.
lets say you were NOT one of those that thought IF I were to charge less I'll get more work. Cause they certasinly won't have it, BUT, do you have the 50 G's to get a 1/2 @$$ good lawyer. The Feds will have a board of lawyers, Does NOT matter IF you did or did not do misleading reports it matters IF you get to be one of the selected ones.
Yeah, the Feds are just going to select appraisers at random to screw over, no matter if they did anything wrong or not....sure they are.
IF your one of those in the high priced homes area such as Baltimore you may want to rethink your NEVER HAVE position. & IF you had a "BIG FIRM" during the "BOOM" Oh yes you, better get the butt cheek tighter video.
It must be very hard to get up every morning and face the world with such paranoid thoughts. Are all of my appraisal reports perfect, surely not...but they are all credible, you can bet on that. Sure, it is possible I screwed up on one or that someone will sue me, but so what....I carry an E&O policy with $1,000,000/2,000,000 coverage limits to cover that problem for a very minimal yearly premium of around $600. If somehow someone can get past my E&O coverage, I have all of my assets in trusts, titled in my wife's name, etc....so let someone get a huge judgment on me for some b.s. claim....they won't collect ten cents.
What about comparables??? You SURE you checked & "VERIFIED" the closing, & the "UPGRADES" & ALL the "CONCESSIONS" on EVERY SINGLE Appraisal you did. Please don't say yes. Cause none of us did.
Since concessions are required to be reported here on the MLS system and many, if not most, listings have interior photos, that is not an issue in most cases here. As far a closings on comps went, if a closing was not reflected in the public record (here the sales price is part of the public record) and I was not able to get a copy of the fully executed HUD-1 on a property, I simply would not and did not use such properties as a closed comp.....if you did, that's too bad for you I guess.
Here on this Forum we have folks scared to use real names & locations, but yet they KNOW that they are safe from any court actions. Go to any prison & see how many say I never did the crime I'm accused of.
Yeah, the prisons are just overflowing with all of the appraisers who have been locked up (all 2 or 3 of them).....give me a break, it is only the worst of the worst appraisers who have any chance at all of going to jail and that is only if they committed fraud.....incompetence and stupidity is not a crime and fraud, unless really brazen is often difficult to prove.
I'll spend a few bucks in order to say not only am I an Appraiser but also a stock holder & I want the general public to know what has happened, & how it happened.
If they are really after you Karl, how is that going to help? Am I going to see you on the evening news anytime soon, I can see the headline now..."Appraiser goes berserk at the Fannie Mae shareholder's meeting"
You younguns on here have a lot to learn & may want to find some history books that haven't been tampered with. Better than History books go to Veteran homes & Nursing homes & learn what the past SHOULD have taught us.
Yep, it is all just a big conspiracy and we are all doomed unless we can find out the real truth free from the govenrment and others who have changed all of the history books and other records in an effort to hide the true nature of U.S. government.
Folks in the 80's they had voluunteers do the time Cause they got massive benefits. This time around they do not need to give out benefits, hence no volunteers, cause they have LICENSED Appraisers to do the time. The lenders, Fines will just come out of added bank fees.
What in the heck are you talking about?