Strategies for raising fees

[DTB]

If being a socialist means fighting back for some pay parity to workers and middle class, what is so horrible about that? The term is flung about reckelessly as real socialism is very specific and quite different than that.

You don't think that people are paid exactly what they are worth, either to the market or their employer?
How could it be any different?

 

[Non Sequitur]

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[chad hampton]

Fees are low because it’s not a free and fair open market. It’s a manipulated market. You have a handful of providers that control pricing. It’s no different than the other industries out there that have been overtaken by middleman providers that control the market.

 

[Dublin ohio]

If i were doing rural, and no have to take comp photos. I'm lowering my fee.

Comp photos are the least of my problems when doing rural

 

[George Hatch]

If being a socialist means fighting back for some pay parity to workers and middle class, what is so horrible about that? The term is flung about reckelessly as real socialism is very specific and quite different than that.

The answer is "no".

 

[George Hatch]

Fees are low because it’s not a free and fair open market. It’s a manipulated market. You have a handful of providers that control pricing. It’s no different than the other industries out there that have been overtaken by middleman providers that control the market.

We've been through that. It isn't just a handful of buyers and there is no evidence of illegal collusion between them.

The fees vary by locale and by market conditions. And by client. The AMCs don't even all pay the same fees as each other. Some pay more than others. Those are observable facts which directly contradict the "manipulated market" allegation.

We wouldn't even expect the fees to be the same for a 5-appraiser panel as for a 500-appraiser panel. That alone should be considered instructive as to the real reason for the crab bucket level of competition by fee.

 

[djd09]

Fees are low because it’s not a free and fair open market. It’s a manipulated market. You have a handful of providers that control pricing. It’s no different than the other industries out there that have been overtaken by middleman providers that control the market.

notice they do not uad fees...it is all secret hidden cleverly behind the unethical stakeholders...ask louisiana, right DW?

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

Everybody knows how much it costs for any service person to darken your door, as appraisers what is that charge? Usually only considered when a client cancels and you seek a trip fee.

Does a service plumber know more than an appraiser? I doubt it. Does he have licensing renewals on the order of appraisers? Nope. Continuing Ed. requirements the same? E&O or subscriptions to pay for? Nope.

So why do they get $400 for 30-60 minutes of snaking out your main line?

Because people WANT the service. We've been selling something most users don't even want.

I know most appraisers aren't big on selling/marketing...so go into something that people WANT. You won't have to sell it as much and if you do sell a little bit, you're crushing it.

I bought n sold five properties earlier in my life, unsure whether I ever saw or cared about an appraisal...

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

notice they do not uad fees...it is all secret hidden cleverly behind the unethical stakeholders...ask louisiana, right DW?

What happened in LA?

 

[djd09]

What happened in LA?

the la state board tried to enforce C&R...and the ftc sued them for price fixing