Alliance Appraisal Team

You can not pick your appraiser any longer, but you can choose not use the company that your lender is supplying. If they send you someone from Alliance Appraisal Team, refuse them and request another company be used. This company supplied us with someone who actually went to the county and tried to bring, what they (the appraiser) thought, up issues of code compliance. The county official actually knew my property and understood no violations existed. She continued her witch hunt and wrote a note to my lender explaining her inability to appraise my property… I switched lenders, got another appraisal company and presto, a loan! Potential nightmare avoided. Save yourself the pain, listen to the other reviewer and me… JUST SAY NO!

In recently applying for a refinance with Chase, I had the unfortunate «luck» of having Nicolas of Alliance Appraisal Team hired. He came, took a few pictures, made a few measurements and wrote up a report. All for $ 460.00. That’s not the problem though. The problem is his appraised value of my property was too low, he used the wrong criteria and that has cost me $ 20,000 out of pocket. He and I have had two lengthy conversations where I tried to meet him halfway between his figure ($ 200,000) and what my Realtor and mortgage broker feel the property is worth ($ 225,000) to no avail. The man is immovable. He has a fixed idea of what an appraisal involves and home improvements, unless extremely expensive, do not count. As far as I can tell, he has no boss or supervisor I can talk with and I had no say in the of hiring him. This is not how the system should work. I wanted to warn people through Unilocal that if you find out he has been hired to do your home appraisal, JUST SAY NO.