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NC Appraiser is a license to lie & steal

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Carnivore

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Thomas R. T. McIntosh A3721 (Cary)


By consent, the Board suspended Mr. McIntosh’s residential certification for a period of two years. The first year of the suspension is active. If Mr. McIntosh completes the 15 hour National USPAP course with exam, a course in business practices and ethics and a course in mortgage fraud by the end of the first year, the remainder of the suspension will be inactive.

Mr. McIntosh appraised a property located in Durham, North Carolina in September, 2006, finding a value of $155,000. The subject property is a 40 year old one story duplex with 1474 square feet. Mr.McIntosh recruited the purchaser to buy the subject property, and contacted the seller of the subject property to arrange a sale of the subject property. Mr. McIntosh had previously purchased another property from the seller of the subject property to renovate and re-sell.

The HUD statement for the closing of the subject property shows that $16,175 was paid to Mr.McIntosh, who subsequently paid out that sum of money to various contractors for repairs to the subject. His company was paid $350 for the appraisal on the subject, and his wife was paid a 9%commission of $13,410. Despite his obviously close connection to the subject property and the parties, Mr. McIntosh signed a certification on the appraisal that stated that he had no present or prospective interest in the subject property, and that he had no present or prospective personal interest or bias with respect to the participants in the transaction.

This certification was not true. As part of this complaint, Mr. McIntosh was asked to produce a copy of the appraisal reports and work file, but he failed to do so, stating that he did not have his work file.
 
MODERATORS: This is Public Record!!

Thomas R. T. McIntosh A3721 (Cary)


By consent, the Board suspended Mr. McIntosh’s residential certification for a period of two years. The first year of the suspension is active. If Mr. McIntosh completes the 15 hour National USPAP course with exam, a course in business practices and ethics and a course in mortgage fraud by the end of the first year, the remainder of the suspension will be inactive.

Mr. McIntosh appraised a property located in Durham, North Carolina in September, 2006, finding a value of $155,000. The subject property is a 40 year old one story duplex with 1474 square feet. Mr.McIntosh recruited the purchaser to buy the subject property, and contacted the seller of the subject property to arrange a sale of the subject property. Mr. McIntosh had previously purchased another property from the seller of the subject property to renovate and re-sell.

The HUD statement for the closing of the subject property shows that $16,175 was paid to Mr.McIntosh, who subsequently paid out that sum of money to various contractors for repairs to the subject. His company was paid $350 for the appraisal on the subject, and his wife was paid a 9%commission of $13,410. Despite his obviously close connection to the subject property and the parties, Mr. McIntosh signed a certification on the appraisal that stated that he had no present or prospective interest in the subject property, and that he had no present or prospective personal interest or bias with respect to the participants in the transaction.

This certification was not true. As part of this complaint, Mr. McIntosh was asked to produce a copy of the appraisal reports and work file, but he failed to do so, stating that he did not have his work file.


I think I'm confused? I understand the story, though.


"...NC Appraiser is a license to lie & steal"

Did you mean this: NC Appraiser has a license to lie and steal?


Sincerely,
 
The bigger issue is no one can research or verify if anyone has ever been disciplined.

When the disciplinary action is lifted, it disappears, like it never happened.

When one goes to www.ASC.gov it does not show up. If one goes to the NC Board wesite, it's there for about a month, and then it disappears.

There is not a search-able database that one can go to and find out if an appraiser has been disciplined. This is by far the biggest flaw in the system.


How can we protect the public, when the public cannot even research the disciplinary actions of appraisers?
 
Rampant Ouellettism

I suppose the NC Appraisal Board doesn't see Thomas R.T. McIntosh (license A3721, Cary, NC) as a crook, but merely confused.

Apparently, the NC Appraisal Board believes that courses on USPAP and mortgage fraud are rehabilitative.

McIntosh shouldn't be before the NC Appraisal Board, he should be before a judge (at a sentencing hearing).
 
I suppose the NC Appraisal Board doesn't see Thomas R.T. McIntosh (license A3721, Cary, NC) as a crook, but merely confused.

Apparently, the NC Appraisal Board believes that courses on USPAP and mortgage fraud are rehabilitative.

McIntosh shouldn't be before the NC Appraisal Board, he should be before a judge (at a sentencing hearing).

Well said.

Send him to classes all day long. He's still a crook.
 
License to Steal

:icon_cry:

This is why we suffer - NONFEASANCE FROM THE REGULATORS.

You have to basically walk into the NCAB office ("castle") with a gun and shoot someone IN the building to actually be disciplined beyond a 7 hour "reeducation". And of course they are just going to call in the REAL sheriff to take care of this for them. (and no - I don't own a gun)

Whenever they do get INDISPUTABLE evidence on someone, AND the press picks it up - the schister is allowed to "voluntarily" resign their license. These are the laziest group of gubment workers on the planet and they and the ASC are the cause of our demise IMO.

And NC is "supposed" to have a decent reputation.........
TGIF
:new_all_coholic:
 
I disagree. I don't think the majority of the staff are lazy. I do think they can either go along with what the board tells them to do....or be fired.

I do think that ALL of the appointed board members are dishonest, unethical, untrustworthy and incompetent in their mission to protect the public.

Each of them should resign in shame and go take some CE classes to rehabilitate them and make them honest. Oh yeah....that has been tried and ......failed
 
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I disagree. I don't think the majority of the staff are lazy. I do think they can either go along with what the board tells them to do....or be fired.

I do think that ALL of the appointed board members are dishonest, unethical, untrustworthy and incompetent their mission to protect the public.

Each of them should resign in shame and go take some CE classes to rehabilitate them and make them honest. Oh yeah....that has been tried and ......failed


How do you really feel USPAP. :clapping::clapping::clapping:
I know we are all holding back - wish we had a nonpublic R-rated forum to visit once in awhile.......
 
I doubt if 5 appraisers in NC will forward the story about McIntosh to any legislators or news media folks.

Th NC Appraisal Institute will have no comment because three of "their boys" sit on the board and are forehead deep in the corruption there. The NCAI has been trained NOT to question or interfere with the NCAB. They damn sure won't question the three NCAI members on the board. They silently stood by when Earl Worsley and Larry Wright used campaign contributions to Gov. Easley to smooth the way to appointment.

The NCAI has not publicly questioned the all to common illegal closed session meetings, broken record of "suspended" suspensions, no easily assessable public record of appraiser disciplinary actions and no search-able data base of license history, "pay to play" requirements for NCAB appointments, recent appointment of Ms. West_Hoff (not publicly).....and I could go on. I will be amazed if the AI makes any public comment on Mr. McIntosh and the revocation he did NOT get. I did get some private emails from some AI members....and I will respect their desire to keep their comments private.

I have already sent the McIntosh story to all state legislators and several news organizations. I guess I will be one of the 5 that is asking some questions.


Contact all NC legislators at:


internete-mail@ncleg.net


All the appraisers that aren't scared to death of the NCAB have signed the NC Appraisers Petition.


http://appraiserspetition.com/nc/index.htm
 
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