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Entries from March 2009

New Working RE: HVCC, Increasing Residential Income, Altered Reports, Fannie’s 1004MC

March 17th, 2009 · 12 Comments

By David Brauner, WRE Editor
 

As you can see by the fresh cover art, the new issue of Working RE is published and in the mail to you. You can read it now via our free interactive digital edition by clicking the cover image on our homepage.
 

If you find the digital edition works for you, you [...]

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Take our Appraiser Survey

March 17th, 2009 · 6 Comments

Appraisers called the real estate/lending collapse years before it happened, based on what they were seeing- liars loans, inflated values, excessive pressure, an over reliance and misuse of AMVs, but no one was listening. It’s our belief that those “in the trenches” know better than any expert about the health of the profession and, post [...]

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Share your Post-HVCC Experinces

March 16th, 2009 · 76 Comments

Appraisers called the real estate/lending collapse years before it happened, based on what they were seeing- liars loans, inflated values, excessive pressure, an over reliance and misuse of AMVs, but no one was listening. It’s our belief that those “in the trenches” know better than any expert about the health of the profession and, post [...]

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Appraiser’s Inside Report: Mortgage Brokers File Suit to Stop HVCC

March 3rd, 2009 · 12 Comments

Editor’s Note: To many, mortgage brokers and appraisers are like oil and water- they just don’t mix. In this story appraiser Linda Morgenroth takes us inside the recent suit filed by the National Association of Mortgage Brokers (NAMB) to stop the HVCC and explains why joining that organization has been key to the current success [...]

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