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Is A Convicted Felon Inspecting Your Home?

Town & Country Residential Appraisals

In recent years, Fannie Mae has been working towards what they call Valuation Modernization. This is when someone, most likely not an appraiser, inspects the property for the lender and provides them with the property data. However, this is unsettling on many levels.

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Is A Convicted Felon Inspecting Your Home?

Town & Country Residential Appraisals

In recent years, Fannie Mae has been working towards what they call Valuation Modernization. This is when someone, most likely not an appraiser, inspects the property for the lender and provides them with the property data. However, this is unsettling on many levels.

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Nothing New Under the Sun: the varied face of appraisal

Walitt Solutions

My talk focused on Property Inspections, which – to an outsider – might seem to be a straight-forward topic. So, with the changes in the first mortgage space, I asked the audience to consider several questions, when examining the varied face of property inspections that are currently in practice in the overall valuation profession.