Refinance Mortgage

I’ve seen the ads for learning how to take photos for mortgage companies and banks to verify property condition etc. Is this a legitimate "job."?

It is a legitimate job, but it is a bit more complex than just taking photographs. The mortgage companies and banks will have a checklist of things they are looking for, and the photographer will need to be able to document the state of each of the items on their checklists. Taking a class to train on how to do this is completely reasonable.

It seems reasonalbe to me that you are asking this question because you are wondering if it is something you could do successfully… In my opinion, the most important thing to find out before you pay for training in this vocation, is whether your geographical market actually needs more people to do this job… If there are already ten people qualified to do the job for every available position, it’s probably not a sound decision to invest your time and money in training to photograph houses.

Good luck.

I am currently a residental real estate appraiser assisant in New York. I’ve been working with a family appraisal company for the past 2 years and my boss is very lenient and will "sign-off" on any jobs that I bring in. Can anyone give me advice on how to get appraisal orders from mortgage companies in the area. We cover basically all of NY, and near Jersey.

I wouldn’t bother talking to realtors. They are not the ones that would be ordering. You want to talk to mortgage brokers. If you let them know that you are good at what you do, you will at least get a few orders to start.

Obama just told the people on the Gulf Coast that they could defer there payments to banks and mortgages companies. Banks and mortgage companies are just like any other business, they need income to keep their doors open. Does Obama want the banks, mortgage, and oil companies to fail so the government can take them over. We he is doing everything in his power to make it so.

They would have to show economic impact from the oil spill in order to qualify.

If many people default on their mortgages, the economic impact would be horrendous. This action lessens the economic impact to our nation as a whole.