Influencing the BPO

[Tom Bukacek]

I was on a webinar about short sales recently when the speaker stated that he does not attend nor try to influence the BPO. He rationale is that he feels that if he tries to negatively impact the price of the appraisal by attending a BPO he is opening himself up to fraud charges if he turns around and sells quickly for a profit. Has anyone else heard this type of rationale before?