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21st September 2010

Landsafe is hiring Staff Appraisers!!!!

Landsafe is Hiring Staff Appraisers

As you know, working for landsafe can be an appraisers dream job. I know when I became a fee appraiser for landsafe, my appraiser income almost doubled. Not only do they have realistic turn times in my area, but they pay great fees in my area. I have tried many times to become a staff appraiser for landsafe, but my area is usually not taking new applicants.

If you cover any of the areas below, make sure to apply!!! I do not know what they pay their staff appraisers, but to compete with their fee appraisers, I can only imagine staff appraisers are making more.

Good luck and please give me any feedback on your luck applying!!!

Join Bank Of America; LandSafe Employment Opportunity – now hiring for Staff Appraiser positions

LandSafe Appraisal Services Inc. is experiencing tremendous growth and our growth means exciting opportunities for you! We are currently looking for full time Residential Appraisers’ in the following markets:

Las Vegas, NV Atlantic City, NJ
Atlanta, GA Washington, DC
Detroit, MI Bakersfield, CA
Rochester, NY Ft Bend, TX
Big Island, HI Honolulu, HI
Maui, HI Baton Rouge, LA
Naples, FL Bend, OR
Charlotte, NC Raleigh, NC
Wilmington, NC Fayetteville, NC
Portland, ME Hartford, CT
Boise, ID York, PA
Pittsburg, PA Manhattan, NY

We want the appraisal industry’s elite; appraisers with an unparalleled reputation for service and integrity just like ours.

When you join LandSafe as a full time Residential Appraiser, you’ll enjoy the freedom of working from home, a competitive compensation plan that recognizes your efforts, reimbursement for licensing and continuing education expenses, organizational support, and the availability of a consistent volume of work. In addition, becoming part of the LandSafe family offers growth opportunities, professional and technical support, and technology advantages you would expect from an industry leader.

The position does require State Certification for the state(s) in which assignments are undertaken and at least 5 years appraisal experience is preferred. We are looking for professional appraisers who understand that the quality and credibility of our appraisal reports is paramount, who can complete simple and complex assignments, and who possess a thorough understanding of industry standards, FNMA, FHLMC, HUD and investor guidelines.

By joining our team of appraisal experts, you can feel confident that you will be part of a premier Closing Services organization.
If you are interested, please submit your resume to the position of interest online at http://careers.bankofamerica.com/overview/overview.asp as the ones that are still open are posted.

Appraiser Websites – 5 websites for only $100

Search for San Diego Appraisers and you will see that we are #1! The key is to get proper links from appraisal related and real estate related websites. This will greatly influence your search engine rankings.

Estate work for divorce & bankruptcy are at an all time high, but you will never get the work without a top ranking website. I have made over $8,000 over past 2 months doing estate work. Estate work is the way to go, but you have to rank in the search engines to get it.

Right now I am offering to build and host 5 completely different websites, each targeting a different city or county for only $100 a month.

It is very difficult to rank for NEW YORK APPRAISER, but you might rank well for MANHATTAN APPRAISAL, MANHATTAN APPRAISAL, LONG ISLAND APPRAISER, etc… By targeting different cities or communities that you already cover, you will get more internet orders.

If you don’t understand what I am talking about, please give me a call or visit http://www.appraiserwebsites.net for more info!

I AM NOT MESSING AROUND. IF YOUR WEBSITE DOES NOT RANK, THAT IS WHY YOU ARE NOT GETTING ESTATE ORDERS!

2010 Appraisal Management Company Directory

Designed by an Appraiser for Appraisers
Do you want more appraisal orders? Are you looking to recession proof your
appraisal business by getting more Estate and FHA appraisal requests? Do you
want the ability to select the best paying and most desirable appraisal work
from the Appraisal Management Companies?

Why our list is better than the others:
1. We personally verify and sign up to each company listed.
2. We call AMCs to find out where there is an immediate need for appraisers and let our customers know.
3. Vendor Specific errors to avoid are listed in Full Version so you make fewer mistakes from the beginning and get more repeat orders.
4. We email our customers with new companies when added.
5. Top techniques to generate more revenue in Full Version.
6. Professionally designed website is included if you are interested in getting more estate work.
7. Appraiser Marketing Guide included with Full Version.

If you are interested in ordering, please visit http://www.appraisalmanagementcompanies.org or call me at 858-232-3348.

Thanks again!

Bryan Knowlton
http://www.appraisalmanagementcompanies.org
http://www.appraiserincome.com
http://www.appraiserwebsites.net
http://www.appraiseallrealestate.com

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7th September 2010

New California Appraisal Management Company

It seems like new appraisal management companies are popping up all the time even with the new licensing laws and regulations. I am going to start posting information on a bunch of appraisal management companies that I have heard other real estate appraisers getting work from. I have not received any work from them yet, but would love to get feedback from people that have worked with these companies.

Please send me an email or comment on my posts if you have worked with any of these appraisal management companies. This will be an ongoing post and I will be putting up appraisal management companies hopefully on a weekly basis, depending on my work load.

I will start off with a fairly new AMC that I HAVE received a fair amount of work from. But please give me any feedback regarding the company as well.

http://aaa-appraisalservices.com – You can sign up here.

Currently they are looking for California Appraisers that have been approved with Flagstar, Citigroup and not on the Wells Fargo Blacklist.

I have had really good experiences using them. So far I have received full fee appraisal orders and get more than enough time to professionally turn around a high quality appraisal.

I have not added them yet to the ‘Top 20 Appraisal Managment Companies’ that I get 99% of my AMC work from, if you are interested in obtaining that list, please visit http://www.appraisalmanagementcompanies.org for all the details. Again, I have not updated my appraisal blog in a while, but there is some good marketing information to be found at http://www.appraiserincome.com as well.

Thanks again and I should be posting a lot more in the near future, so make sure to subscribe to my blog!

Thanks!

Bryan Knowlton

Appraise All Real Estate

San Diego Appraiser

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21st October 2009

Appraiser Alerts – Appraiser Update: Issue #1

This is the first Appraiser Alert and we will be covering the following topics in this email:

* A Little About Me
* Appraisers Needed
* Getting More AMC Work

A Little About Me
Before we begin, let me give you a quick background on who I am and why I decided to create the Appraisal Alert system. I am a full time appraiser covering San Diego County. When banks stopped lending money almost 2 years back, orders dried up.

Most of my appraiser associates either went back to their prior businesses or became employees at some dead end job to avoid bankruptcy. I knew I had to make changes as my income was dropping fast. I was getting a few orders a week for estate appraisals, divorce, date of death, inheritance, gifts with an occasional refinance or FHA purchase. In addition, a few local appraisal management companies were sending me work from time to time.

The day Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac increased their loan amounts I thought this would bring buyers back in to the market so I created a marketing campaign with my remaining marketing budget to produce mailers and fliers. I created postcard mailers and sent it to all the remaining mortgage companies in my area. I also started going door to door to the mortgage companies and meeting with brokers and owners. Since I was getting some AMC work, I got online and started to build a list of all the Appraisal Management Companies I could find. I would submit the application to each AMC as I found them, usually completing around 2 to 3 applications per day.
My fliers, postcard mailers and door to door marketing failed to generate much business, but a few orders started trickling in from the AMCs I applied to. I searched for more AMC companies online, posted in appraiser forums and made phone calls to independent appraisers around the country to see what was working for them. I would submit to each company, and if I didn’t hear from them I would follow up with each company monthly. Work steadily began to increase to a point that I had to start turning down appraisal requests.

Flash forward to today:
I am still getting way too many orders than I can handle on my own so I select the highest paying and most complex appraisals that are in closest proximity to my office. This has been working out really well and new AMCs are contacting me all the time to either add them to my directory or get an appraisal completed. I am also getting work from companies that I signed up to over 6 months ago, so make sure you follow up with the AMCs on my list from time to time!

Appraisers Needed
I have been attempting to contact each of the AMCs on my list and verify approximately 100 additional appraisal management companies to get information on areas where there is an immediate need for appraisers. Unfortunately I have just started this process and have heard back from only a couple. Make sure to follow up with the top 10 AMCs in my book 2009 Appraisal Management Companies Directory (updated quarterly), and make sure you become approved with all of them. They are all claiming to have a need for appraisers nationwide.

What sets my AMC directory aside from the competition is that all my appraisal management companies are verified. They are not appraisers trying to sign up other appraiser under them or companies trying to charge a fee to be an ‘approved appraiser’.

My list is not in Alphabetical format. The companies that are confirmed and send the most work are at the top of my list.

Getting More AMC Work

* I have found that the key to getting more AMC work is to follow up after 1 month after the initial sign up date. You want to call and speak with the vendor manager to make sure you are set up properly in their system. You also want to let them know you are very interested in doing appraisal work and can provide a good turn around time, etc…
* If you have a friendly vendor rep on the phone, ask what day they usually receive their orders and ask if you can follow up with them on those days.
* If the vendors send out ‘broadcast’ emails for work offers, make sure to send a text or message to your cell phone.
* Follow up with the top vendors monthly to see if you can do just 1 job for them. Once you get a good appraisal delivered to them, you will be added to their list and get more work.

More information about my AMC Directory and appraiser marketing guide can be found at http://www.appraisalmanagementcompanies.org

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