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Streetlinks, your helpful AMC partner!
April 6th, 2011 10:08 AM

Here is an email I got from Streetlinks yesterday.  I am signed up with them and have been for years, but I don't get any work -- my fees are too high.  But I found it interesting that they really don't need me, since their BPO business is doing so well! 

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Maybe we should all just hand in our appraiser licenses and become realtors.  Then we can just run a quick search on a 1-mile radius of the house, determine the average price per square foot in the area, multiply that by the SF of the subject property (which is such a perfect method to value a house that I really don't know why they even use appraisers), and collect our $50.  We wouldn't have to worry about any legal ramifications from being wrong, or from not actually determining the true market value or putting in the time to properly analyze the property and the comparables.  I hear about agents doing 200+ BPO's a month, so at $50/ea that is $10k per month -- not too bad!

PS - No offense to the realtors that do BPO's, but you are never going to convince me that you are doing the analysis necessary to correctly value a house for $50, unless you are working for <$10/hr. 


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Posted by Michael Lay on April 6th, 2011 10:08 AMPost a Comment

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