Word on the street is that the court did not grant eAppraiseIT’s request for a preliminary injunction. What this means is that the Mortgage Fraud Watch List website will stay live and continue to operate. The case against Pam Crowley will continue but it will not affect the website for the time being. If eAppraiseIT were to win the litigation, they might get a permanent injunction at the end of the case which could stop the website from operating.
eAppraiseIt v. Crowley Update
I would hope that all appraisers would:
1. voice their concern about eAppraiseIt’s unlocking and adding any information to a signed appraisal;
2. voice their concern that eAppraiseIt may not be properly re-locking report they unlock for any purpose;
3. that eAppraiseIt should indicate that they have unlocked and entered changes to a report through the addition of a cover letter that also indicates their acceptance of all liability for the contents of the report AND for any changes made due to their unlocking of a report, and;
4. refuse to utilize eAppraiseIt until they agree to the above AND eAppraisIt withdraws all legal action against Ms. Crowley and any others who perform watchdog services for the appraisal industry.
First American Ea is in business. First American plans to have all data reused. They not only have scraped data from the pdf’s in the past. The manually enter information into other systems using human review.
First American is in the process of hiding Ea and its history. They have a created a new Valuation group that is lead by the People of Eapraisit. The CEO is Joni Pierce of FA Res Value View, the CTO is Mike Perry of EA who has had a large behind the scenes empowerment of EA for over 10 years. THe sales staff are all ex EA staff the EA office in Boston is still full functional and the office in Poway is still full functional.
This group is very self driven and have shown little disregard for the US realestate health. They will do whatever there clients ask. Including data watch, value box and sell private data.
Good Luck
They are trying merge the shops and pretend EA does not exist. It does and is just a new name on the same old stuff.
EA has developed new software that manages the Apraissal reports and while doing so they developed a form scaper to harvest use and sell the Aprraisal information.