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Editor’s Note: The bankruptcy earlier this year of the appraisal management company (AMC) ESA left millions in unpaid fees to appraisers, agents and brokers, who now are trying to collect from Chase, the bank who hired the AMC. What happens will have far-reaching effects on the appraiser-AMC relationship and the industry. Chase Denies Responsibility for…
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Editor’s Note: In these competitive times, appraisers must grow and develop business continuously. But author and long-time appraiser Doug Smith cautions that the success of your firm depends on knowing which business to take on and which to turn down. Every bad debt starts with the granting of credit. Here are some guidelines for growing...…
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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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