Virgina REAB and Portal Petition

[Pamela Crowley (Florida)]

How many of you have actually asked for a copy of your own report ...

Many were asking last year and I asked them to ask. After numerous accounts of the appraisers that asked being denied a copy of their report as delivered through FNC and/or one the AMCs, they suddenly no longer received any more appraisal orders either. I then stopped asking appraisers to ask for a copy.

I'm guessing their act has been cleaned up a bit since then.

 

[Workbox]

Pam, do not forget the borrowers that are still waiting for their reports, and in some cases, some just get a one page print out.

 

[Carnivore]

I have the files that I sent, and I have the ability to pull them up on my screen. If a board wants to see them, they will have to obtain a viewer, just as they would have to obtain a viewer to see my PDF, Excel or SFREP files.

Really! So please tell the many state regulators and State AG's that frequent this forum how they may get one of these FNC OADI viewers!

 

[Workbox]

Really! So please tell the many state regulators and State AG's that frequent this forum how they may get one of these FNC OADI viewers!

Wow, He MUST BE Special, It seems that he is the only Appraiser in America with This Elite Viewer. Nice connections.................HECK, how can We ALL GET ONE?

 

[Jonsey]

Maybe because it just isn't true. As a past ASB member I am as strong a proponent for USPAP compliance as you will meet. However, using the words in USPAP, no one has been able to demonstrate lack of compliance. The claim of lack of compliance is based on "unwritten rules." We are talking about appraisal regulation, not baseball.

This claim has been made often. Just because you hear something 50 times, that doesn't (necessarily) mean it is true.

How true. The truth (or falsity) of hearing something 50 times is a two way street. Nice - skirt through loopholes because of "words" - that by omission would otherwise constitute compliance.

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[Fred]

I don't think anybody thinks that USPAP covers delivery systems,

Really? What was about the comment I addressed:
"...forcing appraisers to use a delivery system that is not USPAP compliant."
would cause you think that this person doesn't think USPAP addresses delivery systems?

but the individual States can say that an appraiser licensed in their State cannot use a system known to break and enter the locked appraisal report and alter it,

Break and enter? The state can require you to inspect properties in the nude. If they do, however, I would fight against them saying it is a USPAP requirement.

I think you ought to be concerned that the Georgia language excludes the transmission of reports by any means. Just my opinion, by I see, as the post said, "passionate" people trying to kill a fly with an atomic bomb. Don't you think the first step is, at least, recognizing that "the report" is just a container, and that what you are concerned about are the rerport's contents. As one thoughtfull poster already tried to point out, if the report is paper and the person opens it to stamp on a "received" date, that's, to use your type of words, "breaking and entering" the report and "tamperinf" with it. Don't you realize that just by hitting the print button, that between your hard drive and your printer, your software "changes" the report - but not the contents.

 

[DWiley]

Jonesy,

Since it is so obvious that what I say is wrong, then you should easily be able to show the error of my ways. So, show me, using only the words in USPAP, where the problem is. Remember, USPAP compliance must be judged by what is written, not by what someone thinks should be written, in USPAP.

What is so hard to understand about lines 298 and 299 in USPAP? An electronic copy satisfies the requirement of a true copy. Can you find a passage in USPAP that requires a printed copy? If you can, I will gladly send you my next appraisal fee.

DW

 

[Pamela Crowley (Florida)]

A locked .pdf does not have to be unlocked to add a 'watermark' or a 'received date' stamp.

 

[Carnivore]

Steven,

There are several issues in this discussion.

The biggest issue is that if a appraisal board in a complaint produces prima facia evidence, the respondent does not have an affirmative defense.

This same issues can arise for the appraiser during a routine records examination by the State Appraisal board.

The regulatory fix is for appraisal boards to issue specific requirements that go beyond the bare minimum USPAP and/or at least clarify by there own interpretation of the the records keeping section of USPAP.

Thats how I see it.

 

[DWiley]

The regulatory fix is for appraisal boards to issue specific requirements that go beyond the bare minimum USPAP and/or at least clarify by there own interpretation of the the records keeping section of USPAP.

Yes. And the ASC has already had some heart-to-heart discussions with Boards that interpreted USPAP in a manner contrary to the ASB's interpretation. Why do you think states rescinded those infamous policies prohibiting exterior-only inspections?