AQB Update On Proposed Changes To Appraiser Qualifications

[J Grant]

Sort of ironic. When considering so many of your own disdainful posts regarding AMCs hiring the cheapest and fastest. But hey, perhaps some where down the line AMCs will consider advanced education criteria as a measure to pay higher fees? You have a degree? How's that working out for you? Meh, then again, perhaps they will substitute your infallible knowledge on all matters - even those not appraisal related.

If the degree requirement remains intact, future trainees/newbies will have the degree, which would mean a level playing field and likely higher pay, even from AMCs - but it will take years to gain traction.

I never held myself out to be infallible on matters beyond appraising. The bitter jabs at college degree people on this board is constant, while the college degree people are far more restrained - though we have reason to be bitter , since the influx of non college folks created HS like pay . Meh...as you said.

 

[djd09]

I like to see JG files. I can smell the stretching. JG will go on and tell you she is a strict by the numbers appraiser, which is a lie since how many deals can one appraiser kill.

 

[J Grant]

I see you're still focused on the individual and their income potential instead of what the job does and doesn't require in the way of skills.

The employee this guy replaced was a HS dropout who performed the job quite well until she got pregnant and moved back East. Nothing about the job has changed in the interim.

Perhaps she did not do such a good job after all, since this time they hired a college grad . Or maybe they are grooming him for a step up promotion. Or other. Who knows, what does it have to do with appraising. Lots of individual anecdotes out there.

Unless the college guy hired has low expectations, hell probably seek a better job at some point, within the company or without. Have your son ask him, and get back to us?

 

[Joe Flacco]

You didn't know what you didn't know but now you know and that's a good thing. George summed the pre-licensing days up rather nicely and more than adequately in many of his posts - go back and reread those posts if necessary.

I don't really care what it was pre-licensing. It is irrelevant. I care about what we have today and what we will have in the future. The structure of the business today with most appraisers being independent is not working.

 

[George Hatch]

Perhaps she did not do such a good job after all, since this time they hired a college grad . Or maybe they are grooming him for a step up promotion. Or other. Who knows, what does it have to do with appraising. Lots of individual anecdotes out there.

Unless the college guy hired has low expectations, hell probably seek a better job at some point, within the company or without. Have your son ask him, and get back to us?

I discussed the issue with him at length right when it happened (because I was curious) , and as I said, the reason he and his boss hired that guy at $12/hr was because they could. Not because they actually needed the additional skills.

One of my other sons dated a girl who spent $150k on a 4yr degree from Univ. of San Diego for a communications degree. She still works in retail at the same type of job she had at 16. She's 31 now.

But, maybe she's more ethical than the kids she works with.

 

[Evincere]

I think it's working well since I have been able to move away mostly from AMC work with most of my clients now better pay direct lenders. For awhile I got stuck working for more AMCs due to post HVCC merging of clients. I think my report writing skills allowed me to get approved for panels of better clients.

Good try. No cigar. Again, a subjective position on which to hang your college diploma. Countless posters have made the same declaration about moving away from AMC work to better paying clients but have not, to my knowledge ever stated or claimed it was due solely to their college degree.

The bitter jabs at college degree people on this board is constant, while the college degree people are far more restrained - though we have reason to be bitter , since the influx of non college folks created HS like pay . Meh...as you said.

Does the college degree derived restraint you refer too apply to yourself? Could have fooled me. Not. The so called influx of non college degree folks was grandfathered in for years (1992) by virtue of licensing so your argument is back peddling 25 years and has no legs. And during what years did this so called "influx" take place?

 

[Joe Flacco]

We need people like Denis or Jonathan Miller on top of big local firms. On going in house training and on going in house discussions about local market issues. Everybody being independent is not working.

 

[Evincere]

I don't really care what it was pre-licensing. It is irrelevant. I care about what we have today and what we will have in the future. The structure of the business today with most appraisers being independent is not working.

Being "dependent" is a better alternative to you? If so, please explain your position. If for some reason you believe we are the only profession facing transition challenges you are sadly mistaken.

 

[Evincere]

We need people like Denis or Jonathan Miller on top of big local firms. On going in house training and on going in house discussions about local market issues. Everybody being independent is not working.

Problem solved. Go find a staff appraiser position where you will be closely monitored and supervised because your insecurity is showing. And btw. speak if you will for "thee" and not for "we"

 

[George Hatch]

I don't really care what it was pre-licensing. It is irrelevant. I care about what we have today and what we will have in the future. The structure of the business today with most appraisers being independent is not working.

Not working for whom?

Some appraisers are doing okay when considering the oversupply they're competing against. Others, not so much.