I typically do not express my opinion on line however most of you are really not aware as to what is now going on in the banking industry and we need to speak out. It is now a mandatory rule that bank appraisers  can not  contact the listing  agent for information regarding the home and the features, or the sold properties in the area  so they are doing appraisals by just looking at the sheet from the MLS and tax records.
The worst of it is that due to the fact that there are so many foreclosures and shorts sales which is about 35% of our market today, those properties are now being used as home sale comparables in the appraisal process.Â
The banks do not care that these homes can sometimes be sold at more then 40% under the fair market value so it now will reduce the value of all of our homes today. I have already lost 2 transactions as the homes did not appraise out and one with a very well known Realtor in Libertyville.Â
The buyers will not pay more then the appraised value and the appraisers came in on both of them $50,000.00 under the selling price. So the banks in this country gave the money away to non qualified buyers for years as they all got rich and richer and now today they are destroying what is left of a bad real estate market. We need to do something and we can.Â
We can all write letters to our government senators and congressmen with our thoughts. I put my thoughts last night on the Nightline blog and will continue to do so on every blog that there is out there. If we all just do something maybe we can make a difference and stop this nightmare.
