AI agent for real estate brokers
Appraisal Gap Response Agent
A fast, supported plan for a low appraisal with each option checked against loan terms
What it does
A low appraisal can sink a purchase in a day. Brokers and agents must decide quickly whether to challenge, renegotiate or restructure. This agent reads the appraisal and compares each comparable with the sale file and the market. It finds issues such as stale comps, wrong adjustments or missed features, and judges whether a reconsideration request has a case. In parallel, it tests the options: a lower price, a larger down payment, or a split of the gap, and recalculates loan terms, loan to value and payment for each. It rechecks the numbers against the lender's limits. The broker approves any option offered. Edge case: the gap is small and closing the gap with cash keeps the loan inside the limit, so the agent leads with that.
How it works
Follow the arrows from top to bottom. The orange dashed arrow is the loop: when a check fails, the agent goes back and tries again.
Read the steps as a list
- Appraisal below contract price
- Read the appraisal and the comparable sales used
- Compare with better comps and check adjustments
- Is there a documented case to challenge the value?If not: focus on options other than a reconsideration. Back to step 2.
- Draft a reconsideration request with the evidence
- Calculate options: price cut, bigger down payment, split the gap
- Does each option meet loan to value and payment limits?If not: adjust the amounts and recalculate. Back to step 6.
- Prepare a summary for the broker with the recommended path
- Broker approves any request or option offeredThe agent waits here for your OK.
- Appraisal response plan
How it decides
A reconsideration is suggested only when comps are weaker than others available. Options are valid only if loan to value and payment stay within the lender's limits.
- Suggest a challenge only when at least two stronger comps exist
- Check each option against the maximum loan to value
- Prefer the option that keeps the deal and buyer's cash reserves
- Show payment changes for the buyer
Make it yours
Every agent is a starting point. You choose these settings for your own situation.
- Maximum loan to value
- Comp age and distance limits
- Options to test
- Report format
What keeps you in control
It always asks you first
- Broker approves any reconsideration request
- Broker approves any option offered to the parties
Hard limits
- Never contact an appraiser without approval
- Do not advise the parties on price
- Use verified comps only
It stops when
- Done: a path is chosen and the file proceeds
- Stop: the deal cannot work and the parties decide
Set it up
We guide you through the set-up, step by step
Members get the full set-up guide for this agent. No technical skills needed: you copy, paste and upload.
- One set of instructions to paste into your AI, with the clicks for ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini and Grok
- The agent then walks you through connecting your own data, one source at a time
- A downloadable copy with the flow chart, the rules and the full guide