Appraiser Bias Education

[TooMuchCoffeeGirl]

If that's the case....
Why even have USPAP....

How on God's green earth did you take the leap to 'why even have USPAP'? Seriously, how'd you even get there?!

 

[ucbruin]

How on God's green earth did you take the leap to 'why even have USPAP'? Seriously, how'd you even get there?!

If appraisers are ethical....
USPAP is not needed every 2 years....

 

[J Grant]

I stand corrected. 28 is required (in PA) of which 16 is mandatory. It might not be a big deal to many but it's a concern to me when USPAP and appraiser law carves off 9 hours of basically wash/rinse/repeat and that's now expanded to a DEI-crafted course. Am I alone in looking forward to opportunities to take career-enhancing CE?

You can take all the continuing ed you want after you've completed the mandatory CE.

Half of CE is a waste of time - USPAP to find out two paragraphs in the past cycle. FL Law, other dull course options. All of the real estate industry is subject to fair housing reg or topics about discrimination. RE sales, lending etc. Appraisal is late in the game of making it part of CE.

 

[Sadie]

(1) Forced DEI bull biscuits. Avoidance of bias is baked into USPAP. I'd suspect the evidence of bias is at a very low level, but a couple bad actors penalize all. Show me stats to prove me wrong.
(2) SEVEN hours?!?! Insane.
(3) More time spent on courses that we repeat every single cycle leave less time to hone our craft.

Hmmm, its not an added to the required hours, its just a required class. Doesn't reduce your time to do your job, unless your math makes it so 28 hours no longer = 28 hours. You can run 2 screens and work on one and take the class on the other. No biggie. And your user name indicates that you just might be female in which case you ARE a DEI hire.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

If bias is something that needs to be covered in depth, bake it into the 7-hour USPAP refresher.

Exactly... Instructors run out of material by noon and they do all the 'touchstones' by then and have to spend the afternoon doing examples and BS sessions.... Online it is even more dreadful.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

If appraisers are ethical....
USPAP is not needed every 2 years...

If appraisers are not ethical, do you think USPAP will have the scales fall from their eyes and they suddenly become ethical?

 

[ucbruin]

If appraisers are not ethical, do you think USPAP will have the scales fall from their eyes and they suddenly become ethical?

No....

That's why I believe TooMuchCoffee's complaint is inconsistent....
Appraisers take USPAP every 2 years which won't cure unethical behavior....
Appraisers take Bias every 2 years which won't cure bias....
Instead of just complaining about Bias CE, she should complain equally about USPAP CE and the Bias CE....

 

[J Grant]

If appraisers are not ethical, do you think USPAP will have the scales fall from their eyes and they suddenly become ethical?

USPAP is a standard of professional ethics by which at least a benchmark measurement can be made.
It is not about an appraiser being personally ethical - it is about in their profession, can be practice to the ethical standard. An appraiser can cheat on their spouse and be a sleaze in private, but if they follow professional ethics, then they fulfill the requirement for appraisals. The reverse is true - an appraiser can be a great family person and upstanding citizen, but if they mislead, conspire to commit fraud, or violate any of the ethical standards of USPAP they can face the consequences in their appraisal career.

It cant force people but it can act as a deterrent and a means of punishment for those that violate.

 

[jay trotta]

At this point in time, appraisers have been looped into one bag; your experience & knowledge has amounted to "0" - you all are totally biased in some way, shape or form, most have no idea how to add or subtract, never mind divide or multiply. This has been brought to you by the Political & Federal powers that bee.

Who has your back? Nobody but you.....all the best

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

t cant force people but it can act as a deterrent and a means of punishment for those that violate.

But do we need reminded every two years of those consequences? What do we actually LEARN about ethical appraising? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. We have to adopt the miniscule changes made in the document. Back when the interval was 5 years were we more unethical? Of course not.