At Buchanan Appraisals, we are dedicated to being a part of the rebuilding of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. In 2009, four years after Katrina, thousands of people across the Mississippi Gulf Coast are still living in temporary housing.  We eagerly await the opportunity to help you get back into your home -- or into a new one.  Whether you need a professional appraisal for a construction loan, a retrospective valuation for tax purposes, or help making a decision about marketing your current property, our staff stands ready to help you.  Today, we are still Providing Value to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Legislative note: Some of you have expressed concern about recent valuations being completed by out-of-town or otherwise unknowledgeable or inexperienced appraisers. Was your neighbor's home appraised by someone from Greenville or Greenwood instead of Gulfport or Gautier? Or was it valued from Chicago or Atlanta by someone who has never even visited our area? Did your lender tell you that they can no longer select their preferred local appraiser? This is the result of the HVCC or Home Valuation Code of Conduct which went into effect May 1.  Here http://tinyurl.com/qo8ol8 is an article by a mortgage lender and http://tinyurl.com/pdz896 is a Realtor point of view about this restriction placed on your Mississippi Gulf Coast lender by the New York Attorney General.  In June, Rep Travis Childers (D) from Mississippi's 1st Congressional District proposed legislation (H.R.3044) that would impose an 18-month moratorium on the enactment of this rule.  To date, there are 86 co-sponsors to this bill. Don't let New York tell Washington tell Mississippi how to lend money. The markets are not the same.  If your lender tells you they have no control over the appraiser selected for YOUR home appraisal, ask them which AMC they are using and insist that they hire only local professionals to value your property.  If you want to get involved, a petition for the reversal of this rule, signed by over 91,000 individuals, is available online at www.hvccpetition.com

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Our investment in training and technology has helped our customers greatly reduce their workload. By offering on-line appraisal ordering, coupled with automatic report status updates and electronic delivery of the final product, we are able to eliminate the run around and phone tag hassles associated with this process. And since this process saves us money as well, we can keep our rates competitive with anybody in the industry.