Archives by Tag ' USPAP '
Jun 10, 2010
Editor’s note: I think the standards used here apply to ALL private actions for appraisal fraud. With appraisal fraud proven, virtually all lending statutes are proven to have been violated. Appraisal fraud lies at the root of the mortgage mess with its sister, ratings fraud. Both are appraisals and both are ratings. Both were designed […]
Jan 28, 2010
Ease of entry was a key in the jump from 11,000+- in CA in 1990, to over 21,000 by 2007. From Steve Smith This comment is not made to defend the actions of any appraiser, or the appraisal industry itself, but to add some dimension of what was going on transactionally. Sadly, appraisers were Conditioned […]


