How many appraisers are increasing their fees?
Poll: In the past year, have your standard fees for a typical non-complex assignment? www.appraisalport.com
My comment: Good news that the majority of responses were for increased fees. But, less than $50 annual increase is low. If you work for AMCs, your fees will drop when business slows down, assuming you are not getting very low fees now. If you don’t ask for higher fees now, or drop AMCs that insist on low fees, you are losing lots of money. I keep increasing my fees by $50 every 3-4 months and am still below other local appraisers’ fees. Remember, there is little or no AMC “loyalty” to appraisers. They will not remember you when business slows down and you really need work.
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McMansion Hell in Roseville CA
Just for Fun!!
Excerpt: Nothing in this world is a better metaphor for what politicians and marketers like to call “The American Dream” than the Californian tract house. Imagine – you too, could have your own sloppily put together plot of land on a nice street lined with other sloppily put together plots of land.
But you, of course, want your sloppily put together plot of land to be different from the sloppily put together plots of land of your peers. Now, your houses may have been built at the same time with the same plan by the same builder, but damn are you not determined to find a way to stand out from the crowd.
Finally, after the nth hour of HGTV, it dawns on you: the windows.
http://www.mcmansionhell.com/post/149807609446/roseville-ca
My comment: check out other interesting stuff on this web site. I didn’t even know there were any McMansions in Roseville!!