djd09
Elite Member
- Joined
- May 20, 2009
- Professional Status
- Licensed Appraiser
- State
- Ohio
Clients and/or users telling you what their SR1/SR2 expectations are will not infringe upon your impartiality and objectivity, nor does it relieve you of the obligation to make your own SOW decisions.
Are you even familiar with how the DEPARTURE RULE (and the associated SUPPLEMENTAL STANDARDS RULE) worked prior to being replaced with the SOWR? Because if you knew what you were talking about you would realize the SOWR has given appraisers a LOT more discretion and freedom than they ever had prior to that transition.
I have come to believe that Fannie's failure to provide an updated appraisal policy is neither an accident nor an oversight. I think they know that once they formally commit these policies to their selling guide that they will have painted themselves into an obviously indefensible position. That position will be disassembled by the first E&O attorney who argues the case in court. All that attorney has to do to research their argument is do a search on this forum and hit the print button - it's all here.
I think Fannie is playing a waiting game and hoping that the common usage of the forms for a couple years will establish some sort of precedence of reasonableness. It won't, of course, because the conflicts were pointed out before the forms came online and have been routinely and uniformly criticized by everyone since then.
flip flop fish