DESKTOP appraisal's - The appraiser's Best Play?

[Terrel L. Shields]

I disagree. The lender is not profiting from keeping it as a desktop and they start losing time trying to re assign it.

I am only going by the fact I've gone back to lenders when I was doing form reports and reported things like 2 houses, commercial uses, etc and had the assignment withdrawn. I presume they assigned it someone. I don't remember ever getting them to upgrade to a non-residential report. I've also had 2 assignments I recall offhand- one a house PLUS a kennels that was not disclosed to me and one a house with a shop that built commercial cabinets...both expecting a fixed fee since they bid it out and I got the assignment assuming the new construction was, in fact, residential and did not tell me that the property was commercially used.

 

[Tru Red]

They are NOT paying us for our time......they ARE paying us for our opinion. Do not accept a lower fee.

 

[Salty]

I plan to charge my regular 1004 fee plus 5-10% risk premium. Not sure the exact premium yet. If it means I don't get any that's fine. I hardly get any 1004s to begin with as my fee starts with a 5.

 

[djd09]

Class Valuation Removes Appraiser Trainee Roadblocks With The Pod Program​

“We, at Class Valuation, saw the need to do something to help the industry,” Chad Stanius, senior vice president of staff appraisers for Class Valuation, said. Stanius believes demographics suggest the shortage of appraisers will not improve anytime soon.


“We realized that by training appraisers in a new and exciting way – by placing trainees in pods and teaching them how to efficiently use the industry-leading technology that Class Valuation offers – supervisors would be able to take on more volume while the trainees receive professional, comprehensive instruction. We think this approach will have a positive impact on the market,” he said.

Class Valuation Removes Appraiser Trainee Roadblocks With The Pod Program

Appraisal management company, Class Valuation, announced the roll-out of its Staff Appraiser Pod Program to solve a major roadblock for appraisers in training while strengthening appraiser independence. The pod model builds on the existing supervisor and trainee requirements by pairing one...

nationalmortgageprofessional.com

sure, triple your fee

 

[JTip]

Lots of pods for lots of trainees.

 

[Tom D]

i am willing to do anything that is profitable to me. when AMC started, and they told me their pimp fees. i never did AMC work, but how many here did, and are doing AMC work now? so some of you saying don't do it are saying it to the people who already don't do it, or you are saying it to the other's who do AMC work. either way, just a waste of time on both classes.
big city, no drawings on any house. i believe this will drag out sale times to where lenders will not be doing them. i just can't see a home owner measuring a row how. it looks soo simple, but i have seen few capable of doing it right, or easy, the first time. let the chaos begin!!!

 

[Tom D]

certification, AMC, desktops. kinda like surviving the appraisal wars.

 

[alebrewer]

i just can't see a home owner measuring a row how. it looks soo simple, but i have seen few capable of doing it right, or easy, the first time. let the chaos begin!!!

I don't think anyone envisions homeowners doing the floor plans - they are not a disinterested third party. However, the enterprises have already opined that a homeowner assisted virtual inspection - where the appraiser is 'running' the technology - counts as a personal inspection.

 

[DWiley]

However, the enterprises have already opined that a homeowner assisted virtual inspection - where the appraiser is 'running' the technology - counts as a personal inspection.

Citation?

 

[alebrewer]

Citation?

The webinar I just sat through with Scott and Lyle. Let me clarify - the words 'personal inspection' were used, not 'physical inspection', and they affirmed that, as long as a 'tool' was being used to calculate the GLA and draw the floor plan, it did not need to be verified, as it counted as a disinterested third party.