Who is the best online education provider (trainee now, continuing later)?

[saeldrid]

Read USPAP manual and now looking for best (regardless of cost) online TX trainee education. Appreciate your recommendations: Mckissock? Hondros College? Appraisal Institute? VanEd? Champions School? Others?

To add value to my future supervisor, I would like to complete all training to be a licensed appraiser in TX before starting as a trainee. THANK YOU!

 

[TC]

I would take as much in class education as I could. Check the Appraisal Institute in your area. Good Luck!

 

[TerryRohrer]

I would second the Appraisal Institute recommendation. Their resources have always been a standalone resource, even if you didn't take the class, as opposed to others where you might get a condensed, six to a page copy of their PowerPoint slides that become meaningless a week after you took the class. The AI materials can be referenced repeatedly, and that is more important after you begin working on appraisals and actually have some perspective about what the *ell they were talking about in the early classes.

 

[VicTheApraisr]

Read USPAP manual and now looking for best (regardless of cost) online TX trainee education. Appreciate your recommendations: Mckissock? Hondros College? Appraisal Institute? VanEd? Champions School? Others?

To add value to my future supervisor, I would like to complete all training to be a licensed appraiser in TX before starting as a trainee. THANK YOU!

McKissock has the best online programs. I HIGHLY recommend you go with Appraisal Institute for live in-person classes if possible. Night and day difference. Classes like income cap and report writing/case studies have the biggest payoff with peers and a live instructor.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Try one in Texas owned by Corelogic. www.columbiainstitute.net
WOW... my link says they are not providing classes anymore????

 

[Mejappz]

Try one in Texas owned by Corelogic. www.columbiainstitute.net
WOW... my link says they are not providing classes anymore????

Yep, CoreLogic shut it down last year.

 

[RCA]

I would second the Appraisal Institute recommendation. Their resources have always been a standalone resource, even if you didn't take the class, as opposed to others where you might get a condensed, six to a page copy of their PowerPoint slides that become meaningless a week after you took the class. The AI materials can be referenced repeatedly, and that is more important after you begin working on appraisals and actually have some perspective about what the *ell they were talking about in the early classes.

It depends on who wrote the book and who instructed the class. I respect some authors and instructors, even if I don't completely agree with their approach or opinions, such as Bell who takes different philosophical positions or points of view, a necessary exercise, but comes up somewhat empty-handed with practical techniques. Some like Ratterman are far too dull and bland to be of much interest, and he has survived I suppose because he simply doesn't have any competition in residential real estate, and now he seems to be getting completely off-base. (Note: Rattermans techniques and the data he uses are so ULTRA-SIMPLISTIC - it is a total waste of time reading his books and a waste of money. But, that is all you have.

Anyway, that is just it, nowadays there isn't any good competition. So, you go with the best you can get and that is more often than not the Appraisal Institute. However, the Institute is aging along with many of its authors. And, it shows in so many ways. Very little progress has been made in the past two decades in developing appraisal techniques - and now they are going in reverse.

If anyone comes across some new outstanding book or course - please create a thread for it.

- Oh by the way McKissock does have some very good courses. The one on appraising Custom Luxury Homes is not bad.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

CoreLogic shut it down last year.

Harrison ran it for years and he was a good teacher - I've taken several CI courses and he taught the best USPAP class ever.

 

[sputnam]

In person is best. Zoom type classes second best. Online, on demand, last. If your goal is just to check off requirement boxes, then you might choose online, on demand. If your goal is to actually learn as much as you can, then in person classes with a good instructor are better by far.

 

[Tiffany Gibbons]

Read USPAP manual and now looking for best (regardless of cost) online TX trainee education. Appreciate your recommendations: Mckissock? Hondros College? Appraisal Institute? VanEd? Champions School? Others?

To add value to my future supervisor, I would like to complete all training to be a licensed appraiser in TX before starting as a trainee. THANK YOU!

From the state website. you cannot even apply to be a trainee without already having a supervisor, but you can have more than one supervisor. Texas hss a list of appraisers that offer to supervise. Appraisal Institute classes are expensive. I can't tell if Texas even allows Qualifying Education to be taken online? I would advise you to go to AI meetings and try to find a supervisor first, because you have to get a trainee license first. I would hate to see anyone waste money by taking a bunch of QE online prior to finding a supervisor, especially in this profession now. I would carefully review what the state website says prior to embarking on this.