TN appraisal management company bonds.
$200. Five minutes.
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 $200 flat, the price you see is the price you pay. The application is five minutes, and registration bonds like this are the fastest thing we issue.
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Three steps. One sitting.
Registration bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit section in the application, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
Registration bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with your registration
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.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
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.
You need this bond if you're
Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit section, because this bond's application doesn't have one.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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$200 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.