No Appraiser paid fees on invoice?

[Cob]

Same here. I also do the same as the OP and charge the client the fee so it's listed on the invoice.

Our state board has required us to disclose the "fee paid to the appraiser" in the report, so I have to explain it all anyway. No clients have questioned it tho.

When you get an order through Mercury Network and they take the $15.50 or whatever it is on your end, the client still sends you a check for the amount of the appraisal, say the fee is $500.00, the client sends you a check for $500.00, not $500.00 minus the $15.50, also the way Mercury Network works is who pays the fee varies, if the "normal" fee in your area for a 1004 is say $495.00 and your stated fee with then is $490.00, then whoever ordered the appraisal pays the $15.50 fee.

 

[Vermonter]

When you get an order through Mercury Network and they take the $15.50 or whatever it is on your end, the client still sends you a check for the amount of the appraisal, say the fee is $500.00, the client sends you a check for $500.00, not $500.00 minus the $15.50, also the way Mercury Network works is who pays the fee varies, if the "normal" fee in your area for a 1004 is say $495.00 and your stated fee with then is $490.00, then whoever ordered the appraisal pays the $15.50 fee.

Correct. Not sure I get your point tho.

In this case the invoice is basically a disclosure (which I also include elsewhere in the report). My standard fee is $550 and $565.50 for the same appraisal thru mercury network. I make sure the client (and hopefully the party paying for the appraisal) knows they're paying above the standard fee by including the mercury network fee on the invoice.

 

[CANative]

I have no problem with Merc. They bring me business from all over the country from clients I've never heard of. The fee is not all that much and if it's more it's because the client wants a more aggressive rule set procedure. Same with CoreLogic which, in some cases, can be as much as $36. I charge accordingly so why should i care?

 

[CANative]

I always demand the prelim with legal. 90% of the time I get it. When they say they don't have I tell them I will purchase it from Realist and the additional fee is $10 (it costs me $5.) They pay it.