Editor’s Note: Fast becoming one the profession’s most pressing problems, another AMCs has failed; this time leaving individual appraisers owed thousands or tens of thousands of dollars. How the lender and regulators respond may create important precedence for the industry. AMC Fails: Appraisers Stiffed Again by Isaac Peck, Associate Editor Evaluation Solutions/ES Appraisal Services is…
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Editor’s Note: Hundreds, possibly thousands of appraisers are left with unpaid invoices as a result of AppraiserLoft shutting its doors; now one major lender is stepping up and paying up. Lender Paying Appraisers Stiffed by AppraiserLoft By Isaac Peck, Assistant Editor The argument is unsettled to what degree lenders are responsible for the agents they…
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Success Collecting AMC Debt from Lender By David Brauner, Editor One appraisal company, at least, has collected monies owed by the now defunct appraisal management company (AMC) AppraiserLoft. How did they do it? They did it by citing chapter and verse of FIRREA. C. Brent Chitwood, office administrator for Phoenix Real Estate Appraisal in Irmo,…
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Appraiser Kim L. Herzfeldt is mad as hell at being stiffed by AppraiserLoft and by the lender’s refusal to redress the loss. His course of action offers hope and possible precedence for every appraiser who is owed money by an Appraisal Management Company (AMC).
“It felt like your best friend stealing your daughter’s college fund,” says…
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