Tennessee requires every appraisal management company to post a fixed $20,000 bond with the Real Estate Appraiser Commission to register and renew — ours is $600 flat, which is 3% of the bond amount. The application is five minutes, and registration bonds like this are the fastest thing we issue.
















Registration bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Registration bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
Your executed bond and power of attorney arrive by email, ready to file with your AMC registration or renewal at the Real Estate Appraiser Commission. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
$20,000 bond × 3% = $600, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
An appraisal management company is a middleman: it manages a panel of independent appraisers for lenders. Tennessee's Appraisal Management Company Registration and Regulation Act conditions registration on a $20,000 surety bond filed with the Real Estate Appraiser Commission at the Department of Commerce & Insurance.
It's a three-party arrangement: you (the principal), the surety carrier, and the State of Tennessee (the obligee). The bond guarantees you'll faithfully perform an AMC's obligations under the Act and its rules. By statute it cannot be used to help appraisers collect fees the AMC owes them — it backs your statutory compliance, not commercial disputes.
The bond must stay active for the life of your registration. Let it lapse and your registration is at risk — so we track it and notify you 60 and 30 days out, keeping your $20,000 filing continuous.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
$600 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.