Meandering
Elite Member
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2006
- Professional Status
- Real Estate Agent or Broker
- State
- Pennsylvania
What part of Danny's explanation of the client's role in identifying the assignment conditions do you not understand? If the client uses an appraisal for an off-label use (which can include different loan programs that have different requirements) that is not the appraiser's problem. You know this. There's nothing controversial about "intended use".
You haven't come out and said so but you seem to be implying that the only acceptable course of action for appraisers is to refuse to accept any of these assignments because of the possibility some of them may be misused. What are you going to do if/when lenders start including the statement - "This type of appraisal has been deemed acceptable for use in our "xxxx" loan program" in their engagements?
Because I can promise you that sentence will be real easy to add to their engagements if/when it ever becomes expedient for them to do so.
And that had nothing to do with what laws, USPAP REQUIRES appraisers to recongnize and be in compliance with.
As you yourself, and Danny, have said so many times, USPAP is not a law.
But here, let me help you guys that are small businesses understand the impacts.

Make sure you tell the appraiser to include the liability you're not sure your E&O might or might not cover.
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