NAR is against making every home in america energy efficent homes

[Gregory A. Liebig]

Originally Posted by jbraun

The peeling paint is an older standard that has been reiniated. I remember dealing with that a lot years ago. According to some HUD government officials I know, this was dropped because of pressures from NAR. Sad but true.

In our area, this standard has been enforced to the letter. I've attache 4 pics to this post. Paint1, Paint2, Paint3 deals with actual repairs that "must be done before loan approval" and those were documented as maintenace issues in our report. Roof1 was what I documented as a defect on our report that was not even mentioned in the appraisal.

WAKE UP! This is not about REALTORS or NAR. This is about our businesses. Appraisers are on the verge of getting a very big boost with the HR2454 if it's not stopped NOW. Our clients can choose to have an inspection or not. Our clients can choose whomever they trust that will work for them. They MUST pay for an appraisal. We all know that appraisers do not work for the buyers and they are mandated to be rotated by the lenders be "fair". If this bill passes, they will also be in charge of applying a value for the energy efficiency of the home they are appraising. Take a look again at the ROOF 1 photo and tell me who is looking out for the client???!!!

IMO, we don't need Big Brother dictating who does what for whatever reason. I think that happened about 236 years ago and that's what started our Great Country. That seems to be going by the wayside extremely quickly.

[Gregory A. Liebig]

Originally Posted by jbraun

You might try getting your news other than FOX.

Wow, people must be tuning into MJ's tributes rather than paying a little attention to the things that are happening in congress at the moment that will affect all of us in the future. I must be too opinionated since there hasn't been any responses to this for the last 24 hours. At least FNC presents both sides of the argument rather than being spoon fed what "they think" one should know about.

For those that care, the "wicked witch" did a pretty darn good job asking a couple of hard questions yesterday! I hope everyone has a Happy and Safe 4th of July!

[James E. Braun, CMI]

LOL, we just switched to a different thread http://www.nachi.org/forum/f13/cap-a...24/index2.html .

I wonder where you got the term "wicked witch". Most likely from the news station that "presents both sides of the argument". No bias there.