Certified appraiser moving to a non-reciprocal state - help!

[GEORGE3265]

My wife is a certified appraiser here in Florida and has been for over 6 years. We decided to relocate to Tennessee in 2008, however, we just found out that Tennessee is not a reciprocal state! In other words, if the courses she took to get certified do not qualify, she has to take them again, apply and take their exam as if she were a registered trainee! Not only that, but due to the new education criteria, she would have to do it by December 31st! Has anyone had to go through this moving to a non-reciprocal state? Please, I would appreciate any advice..
thank you!

 

[Ted Martin]

Does Tennessee reciprocal with any other state? I thought Florida and Georgia were reciprocal. Maybe Georgia and Tennessee have a reciprical agreement. Temporary move to Georgia and then relocate to Tennessee.

I'm not trying to be a smart ***, it's not a real clean answer but there might be a way to make lemon aid out of lemons by having multiple licenses.

 

[DH Wilson]

Ted's right find a reciprocal reciprocal state if you can, but most have that loop hole closed. I was thinking of moving to Nevada, the appraisal license was easy just needed the Nevada re law class, but the broker license wasn't recip so that got killed.

Of course I started looking and Id make way more money as a network engineer so i teetering on getting my CISCO CCIE cert and going back into that. I hate the work(it probably took 10 years off my life) but I love the money.

 

[Mr Rex]

A reciprocal checker game. Cool.

 

[JRS at OBX]

A reciprocal checker game. Cool.

Sounds more like Go-Fish than checkers.

mmmm, maybe I'll go fishing...

 

[GEORGE3265]

thanks for the fun answers guys... but seriously...

 

[Mr Rex]

Sorry George, but the best answer is a game of hopskotch. Gotta find out who is reciprocal with who and well, hopscotch. Beats starting from scratch.

 

[KYLECODY]

George,

she can be licensed in numerous states. What theyre saying is the way to do it if its not too late. From your home there get a license in wherever is reciprocal with both you and Tennessee then transfer the license from the new State to Tennessee. You dont have to actually move elsewhere, just get a license there . Theres no actual residency reqmts that I know of theyre are specific reqmts I dont know about.

 

[lisagruhot]

I moved from Minnesota to Texas and they are not reciprocal. I had to send in all my hours that I had done, send in all my course completions, my test results, and they had to review them to see if it was acceptable or equivalent. The test was waived because I was already certified residential and have taken the test. The hours were accepted. The courses were accepted also. The only thing that I had to do was take another 15 hr USPAP because it had been more than two years since I had taken the 15 hr and its required within two years of licensing here. I don't know how it is in Tennessee, but it is possible to still be able to do it even if they are not reciprocal. The only way to find out is send everything and and let them review it.

 

[C. Kevin Bokoske MAI]

I think she will find TN much more accomodating than FL. I let my CG expire in CT when I relocated to a position in TN that did not require a license. Then I decided to become a USPAP instrructor about 4 or 5 years ago, and needed my CG agin to do this. TN was not that difficult to work with. They wanted some work samples and required another exam. No great hurdle to overcome.

http://www.state.tn.us/commerce/boards/treac/index.html

Should bring you to the webpage. They have been pleasant to deal with, and unlike some horror stories we read about, very reachable.