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Comment on LoanDepot Appraisal Discrimination Settlement by Lindsey

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I actually think the 4th appraisal used a couple superior comps in terms of quality of construction and 3 car garages. Appraisal 1 and 3 seemed decent. In reply to CRAIG PREECE. Yeah I saw that too. A lot of smaller GLA comps were used though in comparison to the subject.

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Comment on LoanDepot Appraisal Discrimination Settlement by Scott

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Is it at all possible that professors who teach about appraisal bias every day might be biased themselves? Connolly is the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History, and Mott is an Africana studies instructor. When you are a hammer all you see are nails.

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Comment on LoanDepot Appraisal Discrimination Settlement by Baggins

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Everyone please remember the difference between administrative review and appraisal review. Only an appraiser engaged for a specific task with a specifically formed scope of work alongside an applicable state license can provide actual report content review service which can be relied upon by intended users, or anyone else for that matter.

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Comment on LoanDepot Appraisal Discrimination Settlement by Baggins

Appraisers Blog

Yet one could still not get around the fact that three out of four appraisers they may reach to ‘recreate’ the process, do not actually ever work for the same or any amc companies under similar terms and conditions of engagement. Must complete the report within 48 hours of inspection, must inspect within 24.

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Comment on LoanDepot Appraisal Discrimination Settlement by Baggins

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Most people looking from the outside in have no clue how complicated the GSE’s imposition of MISMO & XML UAD requirements caused the specialized appraisal software to become. The learning curve takes years, it will take appraisers even longer to competently use new forms, than it took for the GSE tech staff to develop them.

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Comment on LoanDepot Appraisal Discrimination Settlement by Baggins

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Because three out of four licensed appraisers refuse mortgage lending work due to the amc companies presence, and only half of all appraisers complete mortgage lending work, the other quarter, only if an amc is not involved. Yeah, that does not work though.

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Comment on LoanDepot Appraisal Discrimination Settlement by John Ford

Appraisers Blog

I”m pretty sure the appraisals in this case were debunked last year as being racially biased. If I remember correctly the original appraiser was African American. The original appraisal opinion of value was higher than a subsequent appraisal. I could also be thinking about a different case but the concept remains.