Re: Are You Aware? AI, MAI, Appraisal Institute

Posted by cochise on May 15, 2008 at 16:54:46:

In Reply to: Are You Aware? AI, MAI, Appraisal Institute posted by Cochise on April 01, 2008 at 13:51:52:

That a Unification Team, comprised of members from the AI, American Society
of Appraisers (ASA—business valuers, machinery & equipment, etc) and
ASFMRA (rural appraisers) have been working for years on a plan for the true
unification of the appraisal profession in the U.S? And
that the AI leadership opened discussions with NAR in 2007—without
notifying our own members on the Unification Team or the other
organizations’ members, knowing that re-affiliation was a “deal killer” for
unification of the valuation profession and probably for Valuation for
Financial Reporting (VFR)?
that the AI Board of Directors made a decision in 1999 not to re-affiliate with
the National Association of Realtors (NAR), because they deemed it in the
best interest of their members to be a major player in the Valuation
Profession instead of a minor player in the real estate trade?
that member input regarding the re-affiliation with NAR, a real estate trade
organization that we left years ago, has not been sought?
that the Unification Project Team presented their plan to the boards of the
three organizations in the Fall of 2007 for dissemination to their members for
consideration, but that only the AI leadership decided not to do so?
that after the above decision, the AI put forth a press release asserting that
they continued to support unification, while the other two organizations put
forth press releases stating that the AI had turned the unification efforts
down?
that the 2007 President fired the AI members of the Unification Project Team
on December 31, replacing them with the 2008 AI officers without
consultation with the 2007 Executive Committee?
that in January 2008, the AI officers told the ASA and ASFMRA that the
profession could not afford to create a new consolidated organization, but
that the AI would proceed only if ASA and ASFMRA were assimilated into
the AI?
that the ASA and ASFMRA declined and believe they were misled by the AI
leadership, thus severely damaging AI’s long-standing relationship with
these well-respected professional associations?

• FHA Appraiser

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