Mary Cummins, Real Estate Appraiser, Real Estate Appraisal, Los Angeles, California, Mary Cummins.

Mary Cummins is a real estate appraiser in Los Angeles, California with 38+ years of experience. Cummins provides real estate appraisals for banks, lenders, mortgage brokers, Appraisal Management Companies (AMCs), lawyers, Courts, factors and private parties for lending, lawsuits, probate, estate planning, divorce and all types of litigation. Cummins provides 1004, 1073, 1025 and other form reports, narrative reports and historical appraisals besides real estate research and appraisal advice.

Friday, May 24, 2024

False Bias Claims Against Appraisers - Six Main Cases in the Media by Mary Cummins Real Estate Appraiser

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Below are five of the main falsely alleged racial bias cases against real estate appraisers. When I heard about the first case I assumed the appraiser maybe was racist or was incompetent. Who would make such a hurtful false claim if it weren't true? I would have been the first to take the appraiser out behind the proverbial woodshed for a talking to.

After fully researching the properties and values, I realized the claims were false. I continue to research new cases and have not found one yet where the lower appraiser was in the wrong. I definitely found no biased or racist behavior on the part of the lower appraisals. I have found that the second or higher appraiser has been in the wrong either through bias or incompetence. If I knew who they were and had a copy of the report, I would report them.

In these cases the borrowers truly believed that they had been discriminated against. I understand after a lifetime of discrimination one could assume anything they don't like is the result of discrimination. Sometimes though there is a perfectly good explanation for something we don't like that has nothing to do with race, color, gender...

I did notice four similar things with all of these cases. One, the homes all have complex physical issues. Two, the homes are all located on the edge of neighborhoods nearer to higher valued areas. Three, property values were rising quickly. Four, some of the homes had external factors which greatly affected value. These four factors make for a complex appraisal assignment. If the correct comps are not chosen, evaluated, adjusted properly, values could vary by a large amount. The end result could be incompetence in the form of a higher appraisal.

The first issue has to do with complex physical characteristics of the subject property. Something that I noticed with all of these cases is that they're not newer homogeneous tract homes. All of these homes are complex. The homes are complex because some are much older, in C4-C6 (fair) condition, have unpermitted additions, illegal bedrooms/bathrooms, are on severe slopes, were built to Q5-Q6 quality (low), built on reclaimed swamp land, have varying views... The difference in value could be attributed to differences in actual legal size, real bed/bath count, view, condition or upgrades compared to other homes which sold for more.

The second issue has to do with the homes being located nearer to the boundary of two dissimilar neighborhoods. This caused the second higher appraiser to choose non-comparable comps in a totally different neighborhood than the subject. The Marin case is a prime example of this. There were few larger recent sales in the same area because most homes are smaller and there were few sales overall. The higher appraiser chose comps in Mill Valley which has more larger homes which sell for twice as much as Marin. They are not comparable areas to say the least. It's like comparing homes in South Los Angeles to Beverly Hills.

The third issue is quickly appreciating values. All of these cases happened when homes were appreciating over 15% per year. If you appraise a $100,000 home January 1 for $100,000 then appraise it again 12/31 of same year, the value would be $115,000. That doesn't mean the first appraiser low-balled $15,000. Both appraisals are correct. Sometimes the area was also revitalizing (some call it gentrification) so values went up 25-30% per year. Revitalizing happens when people are pushed out of more expensive areas into nearby less expensive areas causing the area to improve and property values to rise.

The fourth issue is external factors which greatly affect value such as location on a busy highway (Maryland case). Homes located on busy highways are worth less than homes located on cul-de-sacs, private lanes, small residential streets and streets with no through traffic. Another example is homes built on reclaimed swamp land on unbuildable sloped inclines (Marin case). Yet another example is homes a mile from the ocean near the freeway being compared to homes on the ocean with a full ocean view and a boat dock (Florida case).

There is another issue which contributed greatly to these false complaints which is not related to the actual appraisals or homes. It is Andre Perry's false, fabricated, misleading paper and book titled "Know Your Price." Andre Perry falsely stated that racist real estate appraisers lowball black people's homes by $46,000 per home just because appraisers are all "white male racists." Appraisers weren't even involved in the data used by Perry. The truth is people who make more money have more money and buy more expensive homes in more expensive areas. They also buy more expensive cars, clothes, jewelry... Whites make more than blacks and Latinos. Most of that racial wealth gap is actually reflected in higher earners. No homes were low-balled in Perry's data. People read articles about the paper and assumed it was true. Politicians even used the faked paper to campaign to black people for votes and campaign donations.

In all of these huge false appraisal bias cases in the media we had a borrower who automatically assumed racism, a home with intrinsic, extrinsic negative value issues located in a revitalizing appreciating area near a neighborhood which is worth much more. All of these factors combined contributed to a huge explosion of misdirected hate against appraisers especially after George Floyd's murder and Andre Perry's fake paper. It will take years to deal with the false narrative of the alleged "racist old white male" appraiser. The media is directly complicit for wanting to sell advertising to make money by inciting racial divide and hatred with their misleading stories. I didn't see one article where they had an appraiser review the appraisals or give their opinion of the cases. I contacted the writers and no reply. Shame on the media for promoting false hateful racist stories.

Marin, California

https://mary--cummins.blogspot.com/2021/02/alleged-discrimination-home-appraisal.html

Indiana

https://mary--cummins.blogspot.com/2021/05/homeowner-claims-discrimination-in-home.html

Florida

https://mary--cummins.blogspot.com/2020/08/black-homeowner-claims-discrimination.html

Oakland, California

https://mary--cummins.blogspot.com/2021/07/racial-discrimination-alleged-by-cora.html

Allendale, Oakland, California

https://mary--cummins.blogspot.com/2024/06/details-about-alleged-racial-bias-case.html

Maryland

https://mary--cummins.blogspot.com/2023/01/maryland-lawsuit-alleged-racial.html

Mary Cummins of Cummins Real Estate is a certified residential licensed appraiser in Los Angeles, California. Mary Cummins is licensed by the California Bureau of Real Estate appraisers and has over 35 years of experience.

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Mary Cummins of Cummins Real Estate Services has been in real estate since 1983, over 35 years. She is licensed by the Bureau of Real Estate Appraisers. Mary Cummins was an agent and broker licensed with the California Department of Real Estate selling residential income, commercial buildings, raw land and homes for Merrill Lynch Realty in Beverly Hills and Westside Properties in Los Angeles before concentrating on appraisals. Mary Cummins currently provides real estate appraisals, expert witness testimony, historical research, legal real estate research for mortgage brokers, banks, lawyers, factors, insurance companies, financial consultants and private individuals. Mary Cummins was born and raised in Southern California. Cummins attended Beverly Hills Good Shepherd Catholic School and Beverly Hills High School. Besides being on the Dean's list, Mary Cummins was a top ten national swimmer and competed on the men's water polo team. Mary Cummins began college at the age of 15 attending the University of Southern California on scholarship, majoring in Psychology/Sociology. http://www.animaladvocates.us http://www.facebook.com/AnimalAdvocatesUSA

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Elvis Presley Graceland case - Danielle R Keough V Naussany Investments - Foreclosure Denied by Mary Cummins

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False real estate claims happen all the time as this foreclosure case against the heirs of Elvis Presley and the Graceland estate clearly shows. In summary Naussany Investments claims Lisa Marie Presley borrowed $3,800,000 from them using the Graceland Estate as collateral. Naussany claims the money was not repaid so they began foreclosure proceedings. The estate then filed an injunction to stop the foreclosure sale. The estate stated the claim was fraudulent and provided evidence. The estate claimed no deed of trust was ever filed and the notaries on the documents claimed to have never met Presley. On top of this no notice of default or default was filed with the county before the foreclosure auction was set. Naussany then dropped all claims against the estate.

This attempted real estate fraud was as sloppy as those Nigerian emails claiming you have inherited $10,000,000 now just give me your banking info. Even the emails are filled with spelling and grammatical errors. I don't know how the fraudsters ever thought they could pull off this scam on the Graceland estate which has a team of lawyers. The scammers never had a chance. I'd be great if they'd be charged criminally for forgery, fraud, attempted real estate theft but the fraudsters are in Florida while the case was filed in Shelby County, Tennessee. Doubt anyone wants to do the work to file a case across a few states. Update, TMZ stated the FBI is looking into it.We'll see if they actually do anything.

Below is a link to the Motion filed by Danielle Keough for the Promenade Trust which owns Graceland Estate located at 3734 Elvis Presley Blvd, Memphis, Tennessee. The Defendant replied with only a fax requesting a continuance which was denied.

https://interactive.localmemphis.com/pdfs/Graceland-Complaint-for-Declaratory-Judgement-and-Injuctive-Relief.pdf

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The creditor claim is filed in Los Angeles Superior Court September 2023 after Lisa Marie died in Los Angeles County, California. It's linked above. It states the deed of trust will be filed if she defaults.That's not how deed of trusts work. You file them the second you make the loan. This way estate would have been notified if it were real. Fake creditor claims they will take 75% of what is owed if they send the check now. I wouldn't be surprised if the scammer sold this fake note to investors to make money. Why would anyone go public with such a pathetic scam job.

As I look at the cashier's checks I don't think they have been cashed. I believe the amount should be on the bottom right just like a regular check. Not positive about this. Checks are in link above.

Below is notice of foreclosure sale.

https://chancerydata.shelbycountytn.gov/chweb/ck_public_qry_doct.cp_dktrpt_frames?backto=P&case_id=CH-24-0632&begin_date=&end_date=

Below is the docket. The case was filed in Shelby County, Tennessee. The Judge is JOEDAE L. JENKINS. Since the case ended there were multiple requests for public records. I'm sure the media will be sharing them soon.

LAST ENTRY 23-MAY-2024

09:38 AM Order (T)

Entry: ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF'S REQUEST FOR INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AND DENYING DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR DENIAL OF DECLARATORY INJUNCTION AND TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER

FULL DOCKET

Case ID: CH-24-0632

Docket Start Date:

Docket Ending Date:

Case Description

Case ID: CH-24-0632 - DANIELLE R KEOUGH V NAUSSANY INVESTMENTS, ET AL -Non-jury Trial

Filing Date: Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

Type: DJ - Comp/Declaratory Judgment

Status: BONDS - Bonds

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Case Parties

Seq # Assoc Party End Date Type ID Name

1 Chancellor 30DK JENKINS, JOEDAE L.