My personal experience with this appraiser is not good. She seemed nice in person, but plays whatever the lender wants the appraisal to be at, and will not give an honest appraisal, even though you are the one paying out of pocket for it. She de-valued my house by $56,000 for "functional depreciation", because it was "too nice". No joke. And its a nice house but nothing out of the norm for a newly built home. She was pulling older comps to try to get it down, and had the sqft wrong. I corrected her and gave her up-to-date comps; she updated the sqft to MORE sqft but did not increase the value by $1. I declined to go with that lender after the corrupted appraisal, went with another lender (Transcend Credit Union), and they sent out an honest appraisal who agreed the last appraiser was screwing us (Deveau Appraisals), and the new appraiser appraised my home for $80,000 more.... I DO NOT recommend using this person AT ALL. Even after I called her out on her bs appraisal and gave her a chance to correct it based off the data and facts I provided, she still stuck to the exact number the lender wanted to lend on the refi, and not a dollar more. read more