Appraisers' Free Forum

**Goodpasture**

We have set up an Appraising Professionals ONLY catagory. If you are Certified, Licensed or a verifiable trainee you may be admitted. Industry professionals, such as loan oficers, Realtor etc, will not be allowed access. We are doing this so ee will be able to discuss specifics without worrying about who is watching or who is tattling on us. Needless to say, while we cannot guarantee that others wont read it we will ban anyone who shares their access to those forums or who pubically distributes information from those forums.

To be admitted, you must either be registered on the ASC roster, your state's roster, or be sponsored and verified by someone on one of those rosters. To be admitted, please PM your real name, City, State, email address, phone number and the same data for your sponsor if needed to one of the admins or one of the moderators. Currently the Admins are Jim Plante, Annemieke Roell, Goodpasture, and Otis Key and DB are moderators. Any of them can admit you, however, it should be recognized that all of us are working appraisers. We are not professional forum managers. It may take a day or two for us to get there. PM us all if you want, and the first one to get there will getter done......we weill be verifying licenses and references, and that does take a bit of time.

**Cindy E** · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:03 pm Post subject:

Greg, I think that is an outstanding idea. Thanks to whoever suggested it!

**Jim Plante** · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject:

It should also be noted that the reason for the tight security in this forum isn't necessarily to keep the general public from peeking at us. We will be discussing specific appraisal information about specific properties on actual appraisal assignments, and we are constrained by USPAP not to disclose that kind of information. We can, however, act as consultants and mentors to appraisers who need help solving a nasty problem--and for that, we need the security.
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**Christine Marie** · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject:

**Rhonda Brown** · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:40 pm Post subject:

Fantastic idea!

**Daffy** · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject:

What if I am too lazy to apply?
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**Jim Plante** · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:32 pm Post subject:

Sorry Tim,
I was going to go ahead and admit you, but Otis won't let me. He says you've gotta apply like everyone else.
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**Jrs at OBX** · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:55 pm Post subject:

I'm lazy too. Can I just email a copy of my license, resume, E&O, Fee Schedule, W-9 and a check made out to cash for the low low price of $19.95 + S&H?
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**Jim Plante** · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject:

We'll take the check, but you can leave out all that other stuff :)
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**Joker** · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:49 am Post subject:

Like Tim, I'm prolly too lazy.
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**Steve Owen** · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:27 pm Post subject:

**Jim Plante** · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 4:54 pm Post subject:

Steve, it's just as secure as anything else on the internet. Guests and registered users cannot even see these forums, let along access them through normal means.

But any board can be hacked, as can that PC sitting on your desk. All we can do is keep honest people or uneducated crooks out. PHPBB v. 2.x is fairly secure, and that's what we're using. When version 3 is available, we'll switch over to that; freeforums.org will require everybody to switch to it eventually, and it has a higher degree of security than we now enjoy.
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**Goodpasture** · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject: