Tom Hildebrandt
Member
- Joined
- Jan 16, 2002
- Professional Status
- General Public
- State
- North Carolina
As discussed in the thread the case of the clueless board, an organization named FAIR is in its infancy.
The primary purpose of the organization is to represent appraisers in our emerging regulatory environment. The focus of the organization will be on keeping the regulatory agencies in check.
This focus is concieved of having two essential components. The first will be to take what ever action the members deem appropriate to recity the actions of "rogue boards" such as Illinois and North Carolina who wish to impose their own personal standards of appraisal practice on the appraiser's in their states without any regard for the ethical requirements of USPAP as promulgated by the ASB.
The secondary focus of the group will be to assist appraisers who believe they have been unjustly accused in evaluating the cases against them. In those cases where the membership agrees that a particular case has no merits, the organization will work in support of the appraiser member. In the case of those members who request a review, and the work product is found to be lacking, the review of FAIR will be kept confidential. The appraiser will ahve to face the piper on his own.
The intent of this organization is not to provide education or push designations. In short, it is not intended to be in any way a competitor with other professional organizations. Any trainee, licensee or certified appraiser may join. Each member paying dues will have one vote.
This idea has been discussed by many members of this forum over the past six months and will be initially co-chaired by Steve Vertin and myself. Since this was Steve Vertins's idea initially, he has graciously agreed to be the focal point of the organization during the intial organizational phase. I will donate my time over the next nine months (outside of my trip to Australia this next month) to help Steve in getting this endevour rolling.
We intend for the organization to ultimately have 8-12 board members, with an elected chairperson; each board member will be selected from membership based on regional dispursion through out the country. During the first six months to one year, after the initial organizational issues and policy structures are in place, elections for chairmen and board members will be held.
Naturally, not all of the details have been worked out. We would hope that in three months or so the basic structure with by laws to be in place and that this will provide ample time for the appraisers throughout the country to express there opinions, by either joining or not, whether they wish to stand up and be counted.
Those who wish to help in the start up, please contact Steve Vertin or myself. We are looking for ideas and suggestions, but wish to keep the number of "decision makers" to a small number until we see how many individuals are willing to be members and what the consensus of this group might be.
To this end, I am requesting that those who have so generously offered to send money to my defense fund, make their checks payable to Steve Vertin who will place these funds in a trust account as seed money for this organization.
Those appraiser who wish to have a voice in our regulatory environment and become members of this orgaization should send also send a check to Steve for $25.00. This will also be used for seed money to explore the most appropriate way to legally establish the organization. We would envision that those who make contributions during this first period of time would be identified as founding members.
Please understand, Steve and I are willing to work in your behalf, but can make no promises. We expect some expenses and some may be quite heavy if the idea takes off. And if we do not get sufficient appraisers to join, there will be no way we can provide the services we would hope to provide. This initiative will have to occur based on trust until we get the appropriate safeguards in place.
At any rate, let me know what you think of the idea. I would suggest that you hold off on writing checks for a couple of days until Steve gets the administrative details worked out.
Best regards
Tom Hildebrandt GAA
The primary purpose of the organization is to represent appraisers in our emerging regulatory environment. The focus of the organization will be on keeping the regulatory agencies in check.
This focus is concieved of having two essential components. The first will be to take what ever action the members deem appropriate to recity the actions of "rogue boards" such as Illinois and North Carolina who wish to impose their own personal standards of appraisal practice on the appraiser's in their states without any regard for the ethical requirements of USPAP as promulgated by the ASB.
The secondary focus of the group will be to assist appraisers who believe they have been unjustly accused in evaluating the cases against them. In those cases where the membership agrees that a particular case has no merits, the organization will work in support of the appraiser member. In the case of those members who request a review, and the work product is found to be lacking, the review of FAIR will be kept confidential. The appraiser will ahve to face the piper on his own.
The intent of this organization is not to provide education or push designations. In short, it is not intended to be in any way a competitor with other professional organizations. Any trainee, licensee or certified appraiser may join. Each member paying dues will have one vote.
This idea has been discussed by many members of this forum over the past six months and will be initially co-chaired by Steve Vertin and myself. Since this was Steve Vertins's idea initially, he has graciously agreed to be the focal point of the organization during the intial organizational phase. I will donate my time over the next nine months (outside of my trip to Australia this next month) to help Steve in getting this endevour rolling.
We intend for the organization to ultimately have 8-12 board members, with an elected chairperson; each board member will be selected from membership based on regional dispursion through out the country. During the first six months to one year, after the initial organizational issues and policy structures are in place, elections for chairmen and board members will be held.
Naturally, not all of the details have been worked out. We would hope that in three months or so the basic structure with by laws to be in place and that this will provide ample time for the appraisers throughout the country to express there opinions, by either joining or not, whether they wish to stand up and be counted.
Those who wish to help in the start up, please contact Steve Vertin or myself. We are looking for ideas and suggestions, but wish to keep the number of "decision makers" to a small number until we see how many individuals are willing to be members and what the consensus of this group might be.
To this end, I am requesting that those who have so generously offered to send money to my defense fund, make their checks payable to Steve Vertin who will place these funds in a trust account as seed money for this organization.
Those appraiser who wish to have a voice in our regulatory environment and become members of this orgaization should send also send a check to Steve for $25.00. This will also be used for seed money to explore the most appropriate way to legally establish the organization. We would envision that those who make contributions during this first period of time would be identified as founding members.
Please understand, Steve and I are willing to work in your behalf, but can make no promises. We expect some expenses and some may be quite heavy if the idea takes off. And if we do not get sufficient appraisers to join, there will be no way we can provide the services we would hope to provide. This initiative will have to occur based on trust until we get the appropriate safeguards in place.
At any rate, let me know what you think of the idea. I would suggest that you hold off on writing checks for a couple of days until Steve gets the administrative details worked out.
Best regards
Tom Hildebrandt GAA
Tom and Steve. This sounds like it might be a good candidate for 501©3 status (non-profit). Either way, sounds like a good thing to get in on, count me in too.