What is VaCAP President Pat Turner doing? Greeting an Imaginary Friend? A New Line Dance? VaCAP’s conference dinner was held last Thursday in Springfield, VA after the first day of Stats Graphs and Data Science by George Dell. VaCAP would like to thank George Dell and Cyndi Law for travelling across country to be… Read More »
The Virginia Real Estate Appraisal Board Meeting Recap. 02/12/2019 To say this meeting was a full house is an understatement. An extra row of chairs was added in anticipation of public attendance. The agenda was posted prior and the format was, well just like every other meeting. The meeting minutes were approved from the… Read More »
Speak About Hybrid Appraisals at the VREAB Meeting Tomorrow! The Virginia Real Estate Appraisal Board meets tomorrow for its quarterly meeting. The meeting will take place at DPOR Offices, located at 9960 Mayland Dr, Richmond, VA 23233 @ 10:00 AM. The agenda can be found on the Townhall. This meeting is important as hybrid… Read More »
Clarocity Cites Possible Upcoming Government Shutdown as Excuse to Delay Payments to Appraisers! From our Sister Coalition in Mississippi: “BEWARE if you accept any orders from Clarocity. I got a call from one of our members today telling me that Clarocity is citing the upcoming government shutdown as a reason appraisers may not get… Read More »
As you are aware, the oral arguments in the Louisiana vs FTC case were held today. The audio of the proceedings has been posted for public listening. You can listen to the content here.
VaCAP received this informative newsletter from a member of our sister coalition, the Illinois Coalition of Appraisal Professionals late yesterday. VaCAP was the first state our appraisers these products may not comply with Virgina laws.We are aware of approximately 20 states in which there are conflicts between these products and state laws. The Illinois… Read More »
Appraisers and Realtors Unite in Opposition of the Increased Appraisal Threshold Earlier today we shared the letter 30 state appraisal organizations collaborated on in conjunction with Constantine Cannon LLC. We are now sharing a joint letter in which our national organizations, American Society of Appraisers, Appraisal Institute, American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers,… Read More »
VaCAP is proud to be part of something bigger! Behind the scenes, VaCAP and the Network have been working with Constantine Cannon LLP on drafting a formal comment on the proposed appraisal threshold increase from $250,000 to $400,000. The result is very thorough and factual. Each state organization contributed facts, figures and scenarios and Constantine… Read More »
February 5, 2019: This is the last day to submit comments to Federal Agencies concerning raising the minimum threshold for appraisals from $250,000 to $400,000. As of this writing, 275 comments have been received. Come up folks, there are 70,000 plus appraisers in this country, and less than 1% have commented. Please comment and encourage others… Read More »
No words are necessary on this. It speaks for itself!