AQB's latest dumbing down by 'Stakeholders' Dropping the College Degree Requirement

[djd09]

i equate it to a monastery asking epstien to give them advice....i guess they both have an interest in human nature

 

[Mejappz]

The issue at hand is that IAC partners pay TAF for access, including the ability to write standards. This practice embodies the essence of pay-to-play. For confirmation, one can consult the CFPB directly.

 

[Mejappz]

Don’t be deceived by the reshuffling of sponsors and partners like IAC; this tactic mirrors the maneuvers of criminal enterprises caught in wrongdoing, attempting to salvage their reputation. I just checked and it appears Zillow is no longer part of the IAC. Do you think that happened by coincidence?

 

[George Hatch]

The issue at hand is that IAC partners pay TAF for access, including the ability to write standards. This practice embodies the essence of pay-to-play. For confirmation, one can consult the CFPB directly.

Can you point to anything TAF has done that favors the interests of anyone from any at the TAFAC or IAC or any other parties who provide input to TAF? Any changes that comes at the expense of appraisers? Anything? Because in lieu of some indication that it has happened or is happening then perhaps you should consider the possibility that it isn't happening as you are alleging.

Perhaps you've heard this one: "That which is alleged without proof can be dismissed on the same basis"

As a professional appraiser and within the context of your day job, the conclusions you are committing to are supposed to occur AFTER you have analyzed the available information, not in lieu of it. The argument to motive and the ad hominems that you have been levying against all of the participants in the system - guilt by proximity - is a form of fallacy; it's not a legitimate argument. Show us something they did. I mean something other than not amending USPAP to require appraisers use statistical analysis to support all adjustments across all property types regardless of the quality/quantity of the available data. (Which is a truly stupid idea insofar as a uniform standard is supposed to be applicable to all appraisal practice, not just GSE appraisals which are subject to the GSE overlays).

(I don't even make line item adjustments for certain property types, so what now?)

 

[Elliott]

Do you believe in coincidences? One of half dozen senior FNMA executives.....

"Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer

Sharifa A. Anderson is Fannie Mae’s Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Officer. She reports to the President and serves as a member of the management committee. Ms. Anderson is responsible for leading Fannie Mae’s ongoing efforts to create measurable, positive diversity and inclusion outcomes across the enterprise and with Fannie Mae’s suppliers, business partners, and the people and communities it serves. In her role, she leads a function that works collaboratively across the company to advance diversity, equity and inclusion, supports Board oversight of strategic priorities and manages related regulatory and compliance matters.
Most recently, Ms. Anderson was Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh. Prior to that role, she held other leadership and legal positions at FHLBank Pittsburgh focused on driving diversity, equity and inclusion and supporting housing finance and community investment.

Previously, Ms. Anderson held legal positions at Relman Colfax in Fair Lending Counseling and Compliance, Ballard Spahr in Public Finance and Housing, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Office of General Counsel’s Finance Division. Earlier in her career, she worked at Fannie Mae as a Senior Business Manager, responsible for a variety of affordable housing and community development initiatives. She is active with the Pennsylvania Bankers Association, where she has served on the Board of Directors and the association’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Group."

Sharifa A. Anderson | Fannie Mae

Sharifa A. Anderson is Fannie Mae’s Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Officer. She reports to the President and Chief Executive Officer and serves as a member of the management committee. Ms. Anderson is responsible for leading Fannie Mae’s ongoing efforts to create...

www.fanniemae.com

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Isn't Relman Colfax that law firm TAF paid $400K+ for something? I'm sure it isn't a conflict, well, maybe. Let's just say 'a close relationship.' Its all about the stakeholders.

 

[Francois K. Gregoire]

The issue at hand is that IAC partners pay TAF for access, including the ability to write standards. This practice embodies the essence of pay-to-play. For confirmation, one can consult the CFPB directly.

Maybe you could point out the part where it it is stated IAC members pay for the "ability to write standards".

Maybe a remedial course in comprehension is in order?

 

[Dublin ohio]

Do you believe in coincidences? One of half dozen senior FNMA executives.....

"Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer

Sharifa A. Anderson is Fannie Mae’s Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Officer. She reports to the President and serves as a member of the management committee. Ms. Anderson is responsible for leading Fannie Mae’s ongoing efforts to create measurable, positive diversity and inclusion outcomes across the enterprise and with Fannie Mae’s suppliers, business partners, and the people and communities it serves. In her role, she leads a function that works collaboratively across the company to advance diversity, equity and inclusion, supports Board oversight of strategic priorities and manages related regulatory and compliance matters.
Most recently, Ms. Anderson was Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh. Prior to that role, she held other leadership and legal positions at FHLBank Pittsburgh focused on driving diversity, equity and inclusion and supporting housing finance and community investment.

Previously, Ms. Anderson held legal positions at Relman Colfax in Fair Lending Counseling and Compliance, Ballard Spahr in Public Finance and Housing, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Office of General Counsel’s Finance Division. Earlier in her career, she worked at Fannie Mae as a Senior Business Manager, responsible for a variety of affordable housing and community development initiatives. She is active with the Pennsylvania Bankers Association, where she has served on the Board of Directors and the association’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Group."

Sharifa A. Anderson | Fannie Mae

Sharifa A. Anderson is Fannie Mae’s Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Officer. She reports to the President and Chief Executive Officer and serves as a member of the management committee. Ms. Anderson is responsible for leading Fannie Mae’s ongoing efforts to create...

www.fanniemae.com

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Isn't Relman Colfax that law firm TAF paid $400K+ for something? I'm sure it isn't a conflict, well, maybe. Let's just say 'a close relationship.' Its all about the stakeholders.

Keep you friends close and your enemies closer comes to mind

 

[George Hatch]

Do you believe in coincidences? One of half dozen senior FNMA executives.....

"Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer

Sharifa A. Anderson is Fannie Mae’s Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Officer. She reports to the President and serves as a member of the management committee. Ms. Anderson is responsible for leading Fannie Mae’s ongoing efforts to create measurable, positive diversity and inclusion outcomes across the enterprise and with Fannie Mae’s suppliers, business partners, and the people and communities it serves. In her role, she leads a function that works collaboratively across the company to advance diversity, equity and inclusion, supports Board oversight of strategic priorities and manages related regulatory and compliance matters.
Most recently, Ms. Anderson was Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh. Prior to that role, she held other leadership and legal positions at FHLBank Pittsburgh focused on driving diversity, equity and inclusion and supporting housing finance and community investment.

Previously, Ms. Anderson held legal positions at Relman Colfax in Fair Lending Counseling and Compliance, Ballard Spahr in Public Finance and Housing, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Office of General Counsel’s Finance Division. Earlier in her career, she worked at Fannie Mae as a Senior Business Manager, responsible for a variety of affordable housing and community development initiatives. She is active with the Pennsylvania Bankers Association, where she has served on the Board of Directors and the association’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Advisory Group."

Sharifa A. Anderson | Fannie Mae

Sharifa A. Anderson is Fannie Mae’s Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Officer. She reports to the President and Chief Executive Officer and serves as a member of the management committee. Ms. Anderson is responsible for leading Fannie Mae’s ongoing efforts to create...

www.fanniemae.com

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Isn't Relman Colfax that law firm TAF paid $400K+ for something? I'm sure it isn't a conflict, well, maybe. Let's just say 'a close relationship.' Its all about the stakeholders.

How many companies have hired DEI workers in order to promulgate DEI values? And is that even a conflict of interest for such an entity as TAF to include such efforts? Particularly given their interaction with Congress as well as the foundational principle of serving society at large.


I've said it a dozen times on this forum, TAF and the professional orgs are in no position to tell Congress and the federal government "no" when it comes to responding to these issues. Regardless of our personal politics our profession also has social obligations that cannot just be rejected out of hand.

If people don't trust our role as the objective and unbiased 3rd party then that can result in more quickly ending our remaining economic life as a profession/occupation/trade or whatever else you want to call it. If appraisers won't act in furtherance of their professional interests they should at least be mindful of their own economic interests and REL. We should be doing everything we can to slow the transition to the AVMs, not antagonizing the public so as to accelerate that transition.

 

[Mejappz]

Maybe you could point out the part where it it is stated IAC members pay for the "ability to write standards".

Maybe a remedial course in comprehension is in order?

Lol, they’re not that stupid. TAF is not going to come out and say "Give us money and will let you write our standards".The proof is in the pudding Zillow paid for access and now they have a vice chairman sitting on the AVM task force. Now will you acknowledge that TAF has lobbying ties and retract your previous statement? By the way, it would be appropriate to disclose your position on the Appraisal Foundation Board of Trustees, so people can understand your perspective. I know TAF has transparency issues.

 

[George Hatch]

Aside from the guilt by association allegation, do you have anything of substance to complain about? Or is the complaining the thing for you?