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Halt & Catch Fire took in positive reviews and a cult following in the course of ten episodes, but did suffer from low ratings.
Let's renew it!
Let's renew it!
2. Hey Rogers, How about AMC HD for ALL provinces!
Rogers customers in Ontario have the luxury of having AMC in High Definition which I believe is unfair to the rest of the country. I myself live in New Brunswick and I love AMC and it's quality programming with shows like The Walking Dead, but I find it quite disappointing that we can't get it in HD.
I can only imagine how many other Rogers customers feel for the rest of the country and I'm sure that they all agree with me on this one.
So Rogers, are you going to give us the programming that would help ensure that we stay with your company or let customers leave for another provider?
Let's all brand together to get AMC in HD for ALL provinces!
I can only imagine how many other Rogers customers feel for the rest of the country and I'm sure that they all agree with me on this one.
So Rogers, are you going to give us the programming that would help ensure that we stay with your company or let customers leave for another provider?
Let's all brand together to get AMC in HD for ALL provinces!
3. LLR Regulatory Review - Real Estate Appraisers Board
This statement was prepared by The South Carolina Professional Appraisers Coalition in response to the Governor's request for comments regarding the LLR Appraisers Board.
The undersigned believe that the changes suggested below will enhance an industry which is crucial to the overall economy of the State of South Carolina.
THE PROBLEMS:
1. LOSS OF JOBS
· Eighty percent of the appraisers in South Carolina are self-employed small business owners. In 2006, there were more than 3800 appraisers licensed in the state of South Carolina. By June of 2012, there were only 2500 licensed appraisers remaining in the state of South Carolina. Only 1000 of those remaining are Certified Residential Appraisers.
· This represents a devastating loss of 1300 jobs and a loss of 35% of the licensed professionals in one industry in only 6 years. South Carolina currently has 135 appraiser apprentices who, after attrition, will fill less than 10% of the jobs lost. The loss of knowledge and experience is immeasurable since the average appraiser in our state is 57 years old and has been practicing for more than 25 years. LLR’s lost income from appraiser licensing fees is a staggering $403,000 biennially or $1.2 million over the past 6 years.
· The loss of appraisers and decimation of an old and honored profession can be attributed to the adoption of the Home Valuation Code of Conduct by FNMA, HUD and FNMC in 2008 and the Dodd-Frank Act adoption of similar requirements in 2010. Both prohibit loan officers from ordering appraisals. As appraisers we lost every client we had acquired over the course of our careers. In place of loan officers ordering appraisals, the law requires that a third party be used.
2. LACK OF APPRAISAL MANAGEMENT COMPANY REGULATION
· Appraisal management companies, the third party mentioned above, have been conducting business WITHOUT REGULATION in the State of South Carolina since 2008. The appraisers, who they “manage” and the lenders for whom they provide services, are highly regulated.
· AMC’s, most of whom are located out of state, divert millions of dollars of tax free money out of the state of South Carolina. A majority of their income comes on the backs of appraisers. Example: Appraisal fee charged to the borrower is $500. The fee paid to the appraiser is $200. Amount retained by the management company for ordering the appraisal and transmitting it to the lender is $300.
· In the example above, the “appraisal fee” disclosed to the borrower, a tax paying resident of our state, is $500. There is no disclosure as to how much of this fee was paid to the appraiser and how much to the management company. It should be noted that the management company does not provide any services to the borrower or the appraiser, only to the lender. Since 2008 and the introduction of the third party, appraisal fees charged to consumers have risen by more than 40%. This system is an incentive for the AMC to hire the least expensive appraiser regardless of their experience, proximity to the property being appraised and/or quality of work.
· In the past 12 months, numerous appraisal management companies have filed for bankruptcy leaving appraisers with millions of dollars in unpaid invoices for work which had already been completed and for which the lender had already paid the AMC.
3. LACK OF FUNDING
· The biennial licensing fee for appraisers is $390 and consists of a $310 payment to the SCLLR and an $80 fee paid to the Appraisal Subcommittee for the National Registry. At our current licensing levels, the income to the appraiser’s board is approximately $387,500 per year and more than enough to adequately staff our board.
· The Real Estate Appraisers Board is a donor licensing board, meaning that the license fees are not kept by the board to serve and protect the public as intended. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees paid to the appraisers board are being diverted to the general fund and are not being used as intended.
· Despite what should be adequate funding, the appraisers board is horribly understaffed with only one full time employee, the Compliance Coordinator, and one investigator who can be shared by other boards. This is not sufficient to license, supervise, investigate and reprimand the 2500 appraisers in our state. There is no funding for continuing education, USPAP books, newsletters and/or other communications from the board to the state’s appraisers.
· The board has no funding to cover the costs of legislative changes which are mandated by the Appraisal Subcommittee and must be enacted by January 2015 in order for our state to remain compliant. Without this legislative change, there can be no government backed mortgage loans in the State of South Carolina.
HOW THIS AFFECTS THE PUBLIC:
· Massive loss of jobs and employment opportunities
· Increased costs to buy or refinance a home
· There is an increasingly inadequate number of appraisers to meet the demand for
appraisal services, causing significant delays in real estate sales and refinance transactions.
· Undisclosed fees being paid to unregulated management companies who do not provide any services to the borrower. Appraisers are currently forbidden from disclosing their fees or discussing them with anyone other than the appraisal management company.
· The public is increasingly at risk due to the inability of the board to adequately regulate and police licensed professionals and appraisers are not receiving the support to which they are entitled.
· Lack of any type of surety bond requirement for AMC’s which would protect small business owners and appraisers in the event that a management company files for bankruptcy.
· Decimation of an industry in which the appraiser is the only unbiased participant in a real estate transaction.
The undersigned believe that the changes suggested below will enhance an industry which is crucial to the overall economy of the State of South Carolina.
THE PROBLEMS:
1. LOSS OF JOBS
· Eighty percent of the appraisers in South Carolina are self-employed small business owners. In 2006, there were more than 3800 appraisers licensed in the state of South Carolina. By June of 2012, there were only 2500 licensed appraisers remaining in the state of South Carolina. Only 1000 of those remaining are Certified Residential Appraisers.
· This represents a devastating loss of 1300 jobs and a loss of 35% of the licensed professionals in one industry in only 6 years. South Carolina currently has 135 appraiser apprentices who, after attrition, will fill less than 10% of the jobs lost. The loss of knowledge and experience is immeasurable since the average appraiser in our state is 57 years old and has been practicing for more than 25 years. LLR’s lost income from appraiser licensing fees is a staggering $403,000 biennially or $1.2 million over the past 6 years.
· The loss of appraisers and decimation of an old and honored profession can be attributed to the adoption of the Home Valuation Code of Conduct by FNMA, HUD and FNMC in 2008 and the Dodd-Frank Act adoption of similar requirements in 2010. Both prohibit loan officers from ordering appraisals. As appraisers we lost every client we had acquired over the course of our careers. In place of loan officers ordering appraisals, the law requires that a third party be used.
2. LACK OF APPRAISAL MANAGEMENT COMPANY REGULATION
· Appraisal management companies, the third party mentioned above, have been conducting business WITHOUT REGULATION in the State of South Carolina since 2008. The appraisers, who they “manage” and the lenders for whom they provide services, are highly regulated.
· AMC’s, most of whom are located out of state, divert millions of dollars of tax free money out of the state of South Carolina. A majority of their income comes on the backs of appraisers. Example: Appraisal fee charged to the borrower is $500. The fee paid to the appraiser is $200. Amount retained by the management company for ordering the appraisal and transmitting it to the lender is $300.
· In the example above, the “appraisal fee” disclosed to the borrower, a tax paying resident of our state, is $500. There is no disclosure as to how much of this fee was paid to the appraiser and how much to the management company. It should be noted that the management company does not provide any services to the borrower or the appraiser, only to the lender. Since 2008 and the introduction of the third party, appraisal fees charged to consumers have risen by more than 40%. This system is an incentive for the AMC to hire the least expensive appraiser regardless of their experience, proximity to the property being appraised and/or quality of work.
· In the past 12 months, numerous appraisal management companies have filed for bankruptcy leaving appraisers with millions of dollars in unpaid invoices for work which had already been completed and for which the lender had already paid the AMC.
3. LACK OF FUNDING
· The biennial licensing fee for appraisers is $390 and consists of a $310 payment to the SCLLR and an $80 fee paid to the Appraisal Subcommittee for the National Registry. At our current licensing levels, the income to the appraiser’s board is approximately $387,500 per year and more than enough to adequately staff our board.
· The Real Estate Appraisers Board is a donor licensing board, meaning that the license fees are not kept by the board to serve and protect the public as intended. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees paid to the appraisers board are being diverted to the general fund and are not being used as intended.
· Despite what should be adequate funding, the appraisers board is horribly understaffed with only one full time employee, the Compliance Coordinator, and one investigator who can be shared by other boards. This is not sufficient to license, supervise, investigate and reprimand the 2500 appraisers in our state. There is no funding for continuing education, USPAP books, newsletters and/or other communications from the board to the state’s appraisers.
· The board has no funding to cover the costs of legislative changes which are mandated by the Appraisal Subcommittee and must be enacted by January 2015 in order for our state to remain compliant. Without this legislative change, there can be no government backed mortgage loans in the State of South Carolina.
HOW THIS AFFECTS THE PUBLIC:
· Massive loss of jobs and employment opportunities
· Increased costs to buy or refinance a home
· There is an increasingly inadequate number of appraisers to meet the demand for
appraisal services, causing significant delays in real estate sales and refinance transactions.
· Undisclosed fees being paid to unregulated management companies who do not provide any services to the borrower. Appraisers are currently forbidden from disclosing their fees or discussing them with anyone other than the appraisal management company.
· The public is increasingly at risk due to the inability of the board to adequately regulate and police licensed professionals and appraisers are not receiving the support to which they are entitled.
· Lack of any type of surety bond requirement for AMC’s which would protect small business owners and appraisers in the event that a management company files for bankruptcy.
· Decimation of an industry in which the appraiser is the only unbiased participant in a real estate transaction.
4. Hank JR induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame
Hank Williams Jr is the Pete Rose of getting into country music's hall of fame. He is the most deserving singer/songwriter not in yet. He should have been in decades ago. He is labeled an outlaw and his political views are blinding the association's vision of his true talents.
He is more deserving than half of the already inducted. I need your help to show the association that he belongs. It is not right or fair to the music world and all his fans. He has been in the business since the 50's law starting out very young after his father passed. Do this for me and all his fans. Look at his music not his views.
Vote Hank Williams Jr. Thank you and God bless.
He is more deserving than half of the already inducted. I need your help to show the association that he belongs. It is not right or fair to the music world and all his fans. He has been in the business since the 50's law starting out very young after his father passed. Do this for me and all his fans. Look at his music not his views.
Vote Hank Williams Jr. Thank you and God bless.
ABOUT THE SHOW.
Nothing is what it seems, everything is questioned, and clues hide in plain sight in the AMC original drama series Rubicon.
Inspired by the suspenseful and high-stakes political whodunits of the 1970s -- from The Parallax View to All The President's Men -- Rubicon is a modern-day conspiracy thriller that taps into the collective paranoia of a post-9/11 era. Set at the New York City-based American Policy Institute (API), a federal intelligence agency, Rubicon follows Will Travers, a beleaguered and brilliant API analyst who, after being faced with a shocking tragedy, begins to uncover clues that could point to a complex and sinister conspiracy.
Executive produced by Henry Bromell (Homicide: Life on the Street, Chicago Hope, Brotherhood), Rubicon stars James Badge Dale (The Pacific, The Departed) as Will Travers; Jessica Collins (The Nine, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) as Maggie Young; Dallas Roberts (Walk the Line, Flicka, The L Word) as Miles Fiedler; Christopher Evan Welch (Vicky Christina Barcelona) as Grant Test; and Lauren Hodges (Law & Order) as Tanya MacGaffin, with Arliss Howard (Full Metal Jacket, Natural Born Killers) as Kale Ingram and Academy Award® nominee Miranda Richardson (Sleepy Hollow, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) as Katherine Rhumor. Recurring guest stars include Roger Robinson (Brother to Brother) as Ed Bancroft and Michael Cristofer (The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Shadow Box) as Truxton Spangler.
Greenlit to a full series order in June 2009, Rubicon is AMC's third original series. The one-hour, 13-episode weekly series is produced by Warner Horizon Television.
Nothing is what it seems, everything is questioned, and clues hide in plain sight in the AMC original drama series Rubicon.
Inspired by the suspenseful and high-stakes political whodunits of the 1970s -- from The Parallax View to All The President's Men -- Rubicon is a modern-day conspiracy thriller that taps into the collective paranoia of a post-9/11 era. Set at the New York City-based American Policy Institute (API), a federal intelligence agency, Rubicon follows Will Travers, a beleaguered and brilliant API analyst who, after being faced with a shocking tragedy, begins to uncover clues that could point to a complex and sinister conspiracy.
Executive produced by Henry Bromell (Homicide: Life on the Street, Chicago Hope, Brotherhood), Rubicon stars James Badge Dale (The Pacific, The Departed) as Will Travers; Jessica Collins (The Nine, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) as Maggie Young; Dallas Roberts (Walk the Line, Flicka, The L Word) as Miles Fiedler; Christopher Evan Welch (Vicky Christina Barcelona) as Grant Test; and Lauren Hodges (Law & Order) as Tanya MacGaffin, with Arliss Howard (Full Metal Jacket, Natural Born Killers) as Kale Ingram and Academy Award® nominee Miranda Richardson (Sleepy Hollow, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) as Katherine Rhumor. Recurring guest stars include Roger Robinson (Brother to Brother) as Ed Bancroft and Michael Cristofer (The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Shadow Box) as Truxton Spangler.
Greenlit to a full series order in June 2009, Rubicon is AMC's third original series. The one-hour, 13-episode weekly series is produced by Warner Horizon Television.