California

[CURT VAN HOOSER]

I think I would have responded that that may have been the case in the past where some rogue mortgage brokers were able to hoodwink unsuspecting appraisers into business that way, but with the collapse of the financial markets and the FBI investigating fraud, honest appraisers have begun to take back the markets and the dishonest loan officers and their appraiser followers will soon be out of business and you worked too hard to earn this license and you will obey the laws of the state.

Scare the bejeebies out of them, then explain how you do business and maybe, just maybe, you'll get an order.

That's good...that's real good...

 

[CURT VAN HOOSER]

Why don’t they understand that they are asking for an appraisal for free? What is so hard to understand about that concept? Why are appraisers the only group expected (and in some cases dumb enough) to work for free?

It's really simple Donna and you know the answer. It's because there are fools out there doing it all the time. I suppose I should take back the "fool" comment because those fools seem to be sucking up the work. I'll just call the unethical and leave it at that.

 

[CURT VAN HOOSER]

First Emal: In LA before an appraisal job is given out. A lookup value is done by an appraisaer to see if the property is not upside down. In Florida it could be different but I am not asking you to do anything illegial just do a value check before I send an appraisal request. IF the proerty is upside down or lost the value then I might need an FHA appraisal to do a secure loan. OK! Not asking you to do anything that is not normal here in California."




The emails don't jive with each other. The first email asks you to provide a value, which we all know is an appraisal no matter if you call it a lookup, value check, comp check, bleu cheese ice cream or whatever.

The second email claims he or she was was just asking for comparable data without any indication of value. This is a CYA email.

At least they thanked you for your time which they don't want to pay for.

Nor should they...the first was to the OP and the second to Elliott

 

[Elliott]

Curt said, Nor should they...the first was to the OP and the second to Elliott

Be careful, reading and applying logic is a dangerous thing.