Thursday, August 31, 2006

I guess summer is over...

It's cold here in Michigan today! Seems it was just ungodly hot a couple of days ago, and now, fall is here! If you like having changing seasons, then Michigan is the place for you. We sometimes have all four seasons in one day! I love fall, though. Except that it means winter will be here soon - yech to driving in the snow. So, we got a couple of orders yesterday, and one was already cancelled.....great! Sorry to have missed you yesterday, but we were working on our postcard "mass mailing". If it were not for the mail that gets returned, I would wonder sometimes if our mail gets delivered at all! Consumer confidence must definitely be in the toilet right now! (sorry, I seem to not be able to start a new paragraph in this weird composition format - maybe someone can tell me how that is done?) I hope the phone just rings off the darn hook today! I am beginning to wonder if the management companies are going to take over all of the ordering process, and being an appraiser is not going to be the fairly lucrative job that it once was. The management companies are eating up over half of the fee, which leaves the appraisers with pitiful compensation. I understand why the banks need the management companies; so that the loan officers don't get "buddy-buddy" with the appraisers, but the management company should not make more of a profit than the appraiser! I will direct more effort towards the mortgage companies and hope the management companies dwindle away when they can't find appraisers to work for their pathetic wage! Okay, then, until tomorrow......all is good! Deb Seivers http://appraisalpros.biz

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