في 2007، بانتهاء خبراء التقييم من دراستهم، ذكر 90% من خبراء التقييم بأنهم تعرضوا للضغط من المُقرِضين لجعلهم يضخمون من تقييماتهم.
By 2007, when a survey of appraisers was done, 90 percent of appraisers reported that they had been subject to coercion from the lenders trying to get them to inflate an appraisal.