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I am not alone on this form as an Appraiser. We were trained actually due to Government. We were perhaps good appraisers prior to the Dodd Frank law, as I was, and yet the public who does not understand appraisals or how they are constructed will talk all damned day pretending they do understand them.It isn't fraudulent at all for a borrower to believe a property is worth more than its immediate appraisal. If I put a value on something I own and it turns out not to be worth that much to anybody else, it isn't fraud. It's faulty judgment on my part. My intent was not to defraud anybody but to make as much money as I can. Believe me in a free market capitalistic system nobody charges less than they think or hope the public is willing to pay unless it is a temporary loss leader to entice buyers or something marked down for quick sale to get rid of it.
And ALL financial statements are subjective when everything that can be is factored into them is factored into them.
Again I would give the advantage to a 50-year high value real estate veteran and the lender making the loan to assess the value/worth of property every single time over the opinion of a prejudicial militarized judge and AG or somebody who looks for any reason to bash Trump.
I want to agree with the above. I have never appraised any property, than one, where the owner felt the property was worth less than the appraisal. In the case of one commercial building, this one in fact.....
This owner was persuaded his building was less valuable than the tax assessment stated it was. I told him my appraisal did not depend on his views, but would be made per appraisers standards no matter the value, the fee was not returnable. And he agreed. As it turns out, I did the appraisal and it did come out that the market had crashed and of course his building value also crashed. The Assessors office did reduce his taxes and used my appraisal as proof. They agreed with it in fact.