WinTOTAL users get an e-mail two or three times a month usually from Adam Calvery, our Vice President of Appraisal Products, letting you know what's happening in the next WinTOTAL form filling software update. If you get them you're probably already aware of the Aurora Status Dashboard, accessible at this link: http://www.alamode.com/aurorastatus/
Now that Fannie Mae makes the cost approach optional, many of you aren’t doing it anymore on single family residential assignments. Many of you still are because your clients sometimes ask for it, and you like delivering a more complete, even more attractive, report. Many of you would include the cost approach if you could […]
This just in: Client pressure is a huge issue and concern for most appraisers. In a recent survey the Appraisal Advocacy Coalition found that when asked about the importance of 14 different issues appraisers rated client pressure the most important of all, tied with data theft. (The AAC is going to summarize its survey findings […]
Now that Fannie Mae makes the cost approach optional, many of you aren't doing it anymore on single family residential assignments. Many of you still are because your clients sometimes ask for it, and you like delivering a more complete, even more attractive, report. Many of you would include the cost approach if you could […]
You’re hearing and reading ideas all over the place for diversifying your practice and attracting new business. If you’re feeling a pinch the best place to start, 100 percent of the time, is with the business you already have and value. All the tricks of the marketing and client retention trade won’t keep all your […]
Last week Washington Mutual announced it was cutting some 900 jobs, including hundreds in its in-house appraisal department, in favor of outsourcing appraisal management to two Appraisal Management Companies, LSI and a First American unit. The transition is underway and will proceed "throughout the remainder of 2006."
You're hearing and reading ideas all over the place for diversifying your practice and attracting new business. If you're feeling a pinch the best place to start, 100 percent of the time, is with the business you already have and value.
Last edition we asked you to write the Appraisal Advocacy Coalition if you have experience being placed on a lender's do not use list mistakenly or for reasons unknown. The extent of your response was, well, disheartening. Because so many of you wrote in.
We’re thrilled that we’ve been named a Top 25 Mortgage Technology Vendor by SourceMedia’s Mortgage Technology magazine. The list was published in the June issue. In previous years, Mortgage Technology acknowledged the Top 100 mortgage technology companies of any stripe, and a la mode is a fixture on those annual lists. This year, the editors […]
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), an interagency unit devoted to money laundering and other financial criminal activity, reports periodically on official complaints or reports of suspicious activity and the nature of the complaint. Last month the agency reported that mortgage fraud allegations increased 41 percent from 2004 to 2005.
