Letter From FNMA 'Baptist' can't be in report...

[alebrewer]

True, but pretty sure a jury of my peers would see it my way.

I feel the same way. Problem is finding 9 peers...

 

[alebrewer]

Churches are not that important here. I heard they're very popular in Texas.
There are many other things to do here.

Church on every corner in Texas - spread the word, Fern! We gotta stop the influx of uninformed Californians.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

We gotta stop the influx of uninformed heathen Californians.

fixed it for ya...

 

[Carnivore]

Just a reminder there are still bias complaints be being made against Res Appraisers. So certain words or descriptions mean something.

Smollett Reversal Will Embolden More Housing Discrimination Hoaxers

us6.campaign-archive.com

 

[nachocheesefries]

If FNMA requires me to obsess over/contemplate racial context of words that have never occurred to me as being racial or discriminatory in the past, such as the name of a college, university, or highway name, I suppose will. Lets all obsess together! Gobbly gook speak for everyone!

I don't believe Govt agencies sending out robot letters accusing professionals of racism/discrimination, when clearly none exists, is going to play out over the long term. When all of you start getting these same letters, it will hit a little differently.

My new Neighborhood Section....Subject is located in Austin, Texas. Please read the Wikipedia page and/or review Google maps for more information.

 

[George Hatch]

im an independent appraiser...not an employee...meaning they have no authority over my reports

You are not some co-equal partner. You are a vendor. You sell and they buy. They have the right to refuse to do business with you if you become too high maintenance or if they think your work causes liability problems for them.

If you won't do it (help them minimize their exposure) then they'll just go find someone else who will. It'll take them about 90 seconds to do it.

 

[George Hatch]

If FNMA requires me to obsess over/contemplate racial context of words that have never occurred to me as being racial or discriminatory in the past, such as the name of a college, university, or highway name, I suppose will. Lets all obsess together! Gobbly gook speak for everyone!

I don't believe Govt agencies sending out robot letters accusing professionals of racism/discrimination, when clearly none exists, is going to play out over the long term. When all of you start getting these same letters, it will hit a little differently.

My new Neighborhood Section....Subject is located in Austin, Texas. Please read the Wikipedia page and/or review Google maps for more information.

I already told you that you are not being asked to lie by omission and that there is no Catch 22 involved. You're just offended that someone presumed to tell you anything about what they can/cannot get caught using.

On their end this isn't personal between them and you; it's literally just business in 2024. They're getting squeezed from both directions and something has to give.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

certain words or descriptions mean something.

Does the formal name of something, be it a street, a university, a bridge, public building, monument, a square, a creek, river, lake mean something racist? Ever? It's just a name. And by its very nature not racist. I mean there used to be some "n" word creeks around. Those names were changed by the USGS decades ago. And there are some strange creek names yet - "Dead Indian" creek was where a dead Indian was found. Half our states are named after Indian names - many so corrupted you don't really know the source. Arkansas was from the Quapaw Indians. The Ozarks is said to be a corruption of an Indian name while others say it is Aux arc from the French trappers, like the tree called the Boi d' arc described the tree from which the preferred wood came for making an archery bow. Claremore OK was named after an Osage Chief the French called "Clar Mont". Indiana is obvious. Illinois, Iowa, Dakotas, etc.

Political correctness run amok is the worst form of bias.

 

[George Hatch]

And yet, they still think it causes a problem for them.

Whereas the various work-arounds do not cause problems for the appraiser. Nobody is asking appraisers to lie or exclude from their analysis, so stop pimping that strawman.

 

[shrubberyvaluation]

Just a reminder there are still bias complaints be being made against Res Appraisers. So certain words or descriptions mean something.

Smollett Reversal Will Embolden More Housing Discrimination Hoaxers

us6.campaign-archive.com

All words are coded to mean you are being biased, its just we don't know the codes.