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Got to love this business and AMC !

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Ray Miller

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Got to love it. Got an order Friday afternoon as a “rush” for Saturday as it was the only day the people would be up from Chicago for the weekend. So I says ok pay the extra bucks and I will go do it. So I goes up and low and behold it is a MFG/HUD. So I call the AMC on Monday and tell them I am going to need to change the order and scope of work to a MFG/HUD 1004-C. They says to put it on hold, cause last time it was done as a stick built last year. I says ok. You will owe me a trip fee if the bank will not do a MFG/HUD. So tonight when I get in I find this:

“Please send us the pictures you took so the appraiser will know that you were out there.”

What you want to bet, they will kill the order on my end, and give the assignment to someone who will call it a stick built, take the information from the last years appraisal and up date the dates and taxes and call it good using my current pictures. It looks by the yard it was just put in last fall.
 
Have somebody who's photoshop handy put a "Ray Miller Appraiser at Large" embossing across it.
 
Whenever I have claimed a trip fee, I have always sent some evidence that I have been there. Photo, maybe a sketch. A photo of the HUD plates would be a good touch. Trip charge plus photography fee?
 
In any good paint program, just put a visible watermark with your name.
 
Just send a photo of the HUD plates, that way they have the proof that you were there but not enough photos to reuse in a falsified appraisal.
 
Check out watermarktool.com. It's a free online service that I used to make the following pic.
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