jeff samolinski
Senior Member
- Joined
- Apr 18, 2003
Hi my name is Jeff and I am an appraiser
I have a high standard of ethics when it comes to my profession. I am normally in the middle of a shark infested pool of water made up of loan officers, mortgage brokers and realtors of which most of them will do just about anything to get their deal done. My income and business is dependent upon the sharks who will try to get me to compromise my ethics while at the same time often next door to these sharks are people in the same company who have been hired to catch me if I falter.
The sharks and their employers control the waters that I must swim in to survive, so they have developed an inherently and highly veiled flawed system which typically results in insults hurled my way, some threats and even the possibility of jail time if I do not swim carefully.
The sharks even have my peers swarming around me waiting for the chance to feed me to the sharks. The Board that regulates me is intently focused on getting rid of the worst of us. They are aware of the tactics of the sharks and of the fact that if you set a trap with cheese to catch rats and starve the surrounding good animals that they will also kill many of the good animals. But the Board continues to hide behind the shadows of Mickey Mouse and go about its business of catching the rats and ignoringefforts to protect the innocent good animals killed in the process. After as the Board so eloquently states: Its not within their power do anything but continue to allow the traps to be baited and after all appraisers are expected to be a different breed from all the other animals. Appraisers are expected to not be motivated by survival instincts and do what all the other animals are doing, the are to be held to a higher standard and are expected to fall on their sword to maintain their ethics. If not for the appraisers who could we trust to protect this mult-billion process?
So press on ye appraisers and do not fear that you are in a nuclear war with only your copy of USPAP to fight with. Most of you will be killed soon by unfair competition from the rats or eaten by the sharks when you eventually compromise your standards or you will wounded or killed by the trap. And those that escape it is only a matter of time or you will relegated to an income and style of living commensurate with a McDonalds manager.
Sorry for the doom and gloom folks. Have a nice day!!!
I have a high standard of ethics when it comes to my profession. I am normally in the middle of a shark infested pool of water made up of loan officers, mortgage brokers and realtors of which most of them will do just about anything to get their deal done. My income and business is dependent upon the sharks who will try to get me to compromise my ethics while at the same time often next door to these sharks are people in the same company who have been hired to catch me if I falter.
The sharks and their employers control the waters that I must swim in to survive, so they have developed an inherently and highly veiled flawed system which typically results in insults hurled my way, some threats and even the possibility of jail time if I do not swim carefully.
The sharks even have my peers swarming around me waiting for the chance to feed me to the sharks. The Board that regulates me is intently focused on getting rid of the worst of us. They are aware of the tactics of the sharks and of the fact that if you set a trap with cheese to catch rats and starve the surrounding good animals that they will also kill many of the good animals. But the Board continues to hide behind the shadows of Mickey Mouse and go about its business of catching the rats and ignoringefforts to protect the innocent good animals killed in the process. After as the Board so eloquently states: Its not within their power do anything but continue to allow the traps to be baited and after all appraisers are expected to be a different breed from all the other animals. Appraisers are expected to not be motivated by survival instincts and do what all the other animals are doing, the are to be held to a higher standard and are expected to fall on their sword to maintain their ethics. If not for the appraisers who could we trust to protect this mult-billion process?
So press on ye appraisers and do not fear that you are in a nuclear war with only your copy of USPAP to fight with. Most of you will be killed soon by unfair competition from the rats or eaten by the sharks when you eventually compromise your standards or you will wounded or killed by the trap. And those that escape it is only a matter of time or you will relegated to an income and style of living commensurate with a McDonalds manager.
Sorry for the doom and gloom folks. Have a nice day!!!