What are the benefits of creating an Appraisal Management Company?

[Zoe]

Many AMCs have gone bankrupt recently.

 

[chad hampton]

Shorts and golf shirts are normal in the south. If you can wear it to golf, it’s fine for appraisals. Flip flops would disgust me. Both ways - I wouldn’t want somebody walking through my house in their nasty bare feet, and in many of the homes I go into I would never have my bare feet touch their filthy floor. I sometimes think twice about just taking my shoes off. Quite a few times I’ve taken my socks off when I get outside back to the car and wear only shoes driving home.

 

[glenn walker]

I got in at 23 in 1984. Completely different experience for me in the Bay Area. Professionalism got you business with all the small local lenders and the mortgage brokers (who were seasoned ex-S&L loan agents). Slacks and a collared shirt for most appointments were required by staff. Always hand out a business card upon arrival at the subject with a goal of showing up 5 minutes early. I even printed my reports on heavy gray stock until pdf came along. I’ve never seen an appraiser in flip flops and hope I never do.

Man that's complete opposite of Los Angeles So Ca the majority of fee appraisers dress and look like there at a back yard barbeque. The AMC appraisers actually look better and the old timers are in similar physical condition to Mitch McConnell and joe Biden. Even the few MAIs here are mostly wearing baseball caps..shorts and tennis shoes and the Realtors and Mortgage people are nice casual but professional attire.

 

[glenn walker]

Shorts and golf shirts are normal in the south. If you can wear it to golf, it’s fine for appraisals. Flip flops would disgust me. Both ways - I wouldn’t want somebody walking through my house in their nasty bare feet, and in many of the homes I go into I would never have my bare feet touch their filthy floor. I sometimes think twice about just taking my shoes off. Quite a few times I’ve taken my socks off when I get outside back to the car and wear only shoes driving home.

There ya go but you want the public to pay you $600 bucks when through their eyes all they perceive is your on a vacation out taking a few photos and then off to the golf course. Perception is everything and even the cable TV guy looks the part. My point is we lost the respect of the public and bankers years ago and the AMC figured hell these Jack Wagons aren't worth much money and give them a order and hang a name tag on their neck.

 

[Dublin ohio]

I have unfortunately. Shorts and flip flops on some appraisers. I don't know how they do it. I get jabbed by bushes through my pants and had nails jab through my shoes. Not to mention the filth in some houses and back yards. I have also had to dig shoe out of mud after days of rain or at new home construction. There is no way I would not wear pants and shoes on any site. Even vacant lots have their surprises.

I see the other extreme at times. Men in their suit and tie at a new build site, women in high heels at a new build site. It is amusing watching them trying to navigate the site and the building under construction

 

[DWiley]

There ya go but you want the public to pay you $600 bucks when through their eyes all they perceive is your on a vacation out taking a few photos and then off to the golf course. Perception is everything and even the cable TV guy looks the part. My point is we lost the respect of the public and bankers years ago and the AMC figured hell these Jack Wagons aren't worth much money and give them a order and hang a name tag on their neck.

When I had my firm, I controlled how they dressed by requiring them to wear company purchased (and company cleaned) shirts.
No jeans. No shorts. No sneakers. The "no jeans" thing got the most push back

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

When I had my firm, I controlled how they dressed by requiring them to wear company purchased (and company cleaned) shirts.
No jeans. No shorts. No sneakers. The "no jeans" thing got the most push back

Jeans are almost needed due to the holly bushes, branches and wild shrubbery when measuring a house even with a Disto. I would have argued with you daily about that. As long as your jeans are nice and clean, it should not be a problem. I see executives wearing jeans with sport coats. I ruin at least five shirts a year from tears and snags on bushes and trees.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

I know in So Ca you can dress casual but old guys in shirts and flip flops killed any image of a professional business.

Back in the early 70s I was expected to show up in a tie and long sleeve shirt except the hottest of days even as a lowly technician. The women wore dresses, no slacks, no shorts. By 1980, it was rare to see a secretary in a skirt and ties? No one knew even how to tie one anymore.

Several years ago, I met an appraiser 'working' who was exactly how you described him, T-shirt and short pants, some kind of sandals. Hadn't shaved in weeks. Looked like the drunk selling farm produce and Red River watermelons on the street corner. How do you call someone like that "professional" regardless the product produced.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

The "no jeans" thing got the most push back

Well, I am pretty casual but denim isn't my thing either. I wear dress slacks or simple Khaki or something similar.

If a rural appraiser who is inspecting a farm, an appraiser who wears denim fits in, can wear a crisp logo shirt, and even in parts of the nation perhaps a cowboy hat. I wear a logo cap I had made. But when inspecting a bio-secure farm, I get out pull on disposable overalls and booties. A buddy who does the same was preparing to go into a barn was asked by the farm owner why and he said, "we are going in to inspect the barn." His reply? The last appraiser was a woman in heels and a skirt, and she didn't step in the building. Skirts and heels on a farm?

The most extreme inspections are the grandparent stock - the hens who produce the eggs that become the hens who produce the broilers. Very biosecure. They spray down your truck at their facility, you shower and change into their overalls and return and shower out and change while they spray down your truck again. With the bird flu, these facilities won't even allow you to enter then, so I buy a waterproof disposable camera, and the operator sprays down the camera with Windex and wipes it down, then goes in and photographs the interior while I photo the exterior. They then spray down the camera again upon exit. He stays behind the fence and hands me the camera or he has to shower and change clothes again. You can use a GoPro but you probably will need to turn it on and ready it for shooting and it is hard to double check to see if the pix actually were what you wanted. The disposable film cameras are pretty fool proof.

 

[DWiley]

Jeans are almost needed due to the holly bushes, branches and wild shrubbery when measuring a house even with a Disto. I would have argued with you daily about that. As long as your jeans are nice and clean, it should not be a problem. I see executives wearing jeans with sport coats. I ruin at least five shirts a year from tears and snags on bushes and trees.

As I said, I got a lot of push back on that. Still, jeans not allowed at The Wiley Group. Anyone who felt that strongly about it had a very simple solution.