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

[George Hatch]

like a said before...there is no safe space big enough...there words hurt my feelings woke joke

On the one hand I understand your point. Fully.
OTOH I don't understand why some appraisers are so eager to feed the troll with the unearned freebie. We can at least make those assholes work for it.

 

[shrubberyvaluation]

This isn't about trying to get rid of bias. It is to create some metrics to pretend there is bias.

 

[Carnivore]

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

While church attendance has declined in the United States as a whole, California has many notable churches and religious communities:

• Megachurches
  California has more megachurches than any other state, and Saddleback Church in Lake Forest is the largest church in the state.

 

[Bobby Bucks]

Be Woke. Be Smarter.

So says the forum’s Henry Harrison.

 

[Bobby Bucks]

Not to Bright Appraisers looking for easy answers in what to do or not to do.
Common sense appraisers have no problems.

Not “to” bright just about says it all.

 

[J Grant]

If it were up to me, I'd allow all words - but it is not up to any of us.

It makes sense to say university and leave out a specific religious order. Because lenders deal with the public/consumers, the lender faces the possibility of a Baptist ( or anti-Baptist) buyer or seller taking offense or using it as a pretext that they or their property were discriminated against—it is that simple.

 

[sputnam]

These people have lost their minds. I got a letter from FNMA bc the neighborhood section in my report, on an appraisal of a house in a small town that happens to have a university, is named Southwest Baptist University.

FNMA says I can't say the word Baptist. Cited two reports in the area with the same verbiage (its canned) and that they would be monitoring my reports. Its reverse discrimination...the university's name itself is now a no no....

WHAT!?!?!?!?!? Anyone else get one of these?

No.. but if I did.. I would tell them to pound sand.

 

[djd09]

If it were up to me, I'd allow all words - but it is not up to any of us.

It makes sense to say university and leave out a specific religious order. Because lenders deal with the public/consumers, the lender faces the possibility of a Baptist ( or anti-Baptist) buyer or seller taking offense or using it as a pretext that they or their property were discriminated against—it is that simple.

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

 

[Tom D]

We have a neighborhood called southwest (city location) where because of the 20,000 new african immigrants, people there want to now call it africatown. Now we do have a chinatown for the obvious reason, which is a popular destination. Ready for fannie heads to explode, africatown.

To the poster, you were wrong for not catching baptist. Just too obvious. Don't aggravate over this, learn to deal with stupid and go on being happy. Their big stick will make stupid look like a reasonable request.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

I actually appraise churches and I never mention the name

Not even on the cover sheet? Nor on the Comp sheets?