The Appraiser Coach | Creating Value for Real Estate Appraisers

From my friend, Dave Biggers at a la mode, Inc.  Let’s see what we can do to help out here peeps!
A couple of weeks ago, I was contacted by one of our appraisal customers, Carol Huffman, asking if we could help a group of current and former Marines who were on a grassroots mission to save fellow veterans at risk of suicide....

I was speaking with an AMC executive recently (yes, appraisers and AMC employees can talk to one another) as a friend.  He and I were swapping stories and he told me one that just made me recoil in shock and simultaneously laugh at the irony.
He said that one of his panel appraisers had recently called him for the purpose of explaining his new fee schedule.  In a paraphrased paragraph, here is what he said;...

Over the past five years, a major subject of talk in the appraiser world has been that of Customary and Reasonable Fees.  Unfortunately, much of the dialogue has been mostly one-sided.  We tend to do a lot of gripping about the fact that many of us are...

It was actually the second time I had been to the property.  The first was one week prior.  The homeowner had met me at the door and informed me that she could not let me in that day.  There was not more explanation than that.  Strange, but oh well.
My office set up another appointment and I was back, seven days later, at the same door.  After I knocked, she opened the door, came outside, and promptly closed the door behind her.  Now, it was just her and I on the front porch.  Again, a little strange...