The appraisal industry has undergone many changes but one thing remaned constant. The management process.
Appraisal management has always been the domain of someone or some company in the middle to accept, assign, receive, deliver and bill for their services. A traditional local office method, tweaked and applied to the national level as an Appraisal Management Company (AMC) that has remained virtually unchanged for decades. "We've always done it that way."
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