As the fastest growing crime in America, identity theft can severely jeopardize your lending business. There are millions of cases of fraud and forgery plaguing the real estate business, with 30% of these cases directly related to falsified documents.

No longer do lenders have to spend valuable time and money conducting random appraiser checks, which are statistically ineffective in finding identity theft.  With Safe Appraisal, you can confidently protect your lending business from the dangers of identity theft and fraud. 

Having been involved in the real estate industry for over thirty years, we witnessed the exponential increase of forged appraisals annually.  The dangers of forged appraisals are very real; if you base your loan upon a forged appraisal, then your business is significantly threatened.   Do not become part of an ongoing lawsuit that could cost you, the lender, thousands of dollars because you have become the next victim of appraiser identity theft.

Safe Appraisal protects your lending business from the perils of identity theft

Safe Appraisal ensures that the appraisal is conducted and submitted by the real appraiser.  After we approve appraisers through our rigorous identity verification process, the appraisers utilize our secure database to record the information regarding their appraisals.  As a lender, it only takes three easy steps to ensure that your lending business is not jeopardized by identity theft: 

• Log onto our website
• Appraisal authentication: verify that your properties are on the appraiser’s list
• Obtain an official certificate authenticating appraiser’s identity and appraisal 

At Safe Appraisal, we are dedicated to providing a lender with secure centralized process that authenticates appraisers.  We protect lenders from the legal and financial reprimands of a forged appraisal.  Take advantage of the regulatory compliance through which we verify the appraisers.  It is these very regulations that ensure a lender is working with the real, reputable independent appraiser.

This invaluable service, which simply and effectively protects lenders against the dangers of appraiser identity theft, is completely free for lenders.   By joining Safe Appraisal, you provide your lending business with security by ensuring that the appraisers you work with are legitimate.

In order to increase the safety and quality of your loan package, a lender should recommend each of your appraisers to join Safe Appraisal.  You will be able to easily access and verify that your loans are indeed being completed by the real, verified appraiser. 

Safe Appraisal is dedicated to protecting appraisers and lenders from being the next victims of identity theft.  Doesn’t your mortgage company or lending institution deserve to be protected from identity theft?

Recent News

Caroline Hoth, 43, Yonkers, New York was sentenced to six months in jail and five years probation after being convicted by a jury of second degree forgery in connection with the submission of fake appraisals to obtain $400,000 in bank loans for an apartment mortgage.  Hoth claimed that she was innocent and that the only thing she did wrong was trust the man on whom she relied for the appraisals, according to media reports.

Hoth was originally investigated after a bank questioned an appraisal that she had submitted.  According to media reports, the bank officials contacted the man identified as the appraiser, who denied completing the appraisal and contacted Yonkers police.  Hoth was not given the loan.