Fight the Power!

[Non Sequitur]

Or maybe not since the decisions have already been made in the backrooms. Don't believe me? Take a look at the board members/trustees and play 6 degrees to REVAA if you have any doubts. The link below is a chance to watch the transformation of our profession in real time, and to watch corporate interests dominate the process. The AQB and TAF no longer promote public trust, they promote corporate interests.

On the table:
1 Eliminate college degree requirements

2 All electives will be removed.

3 More detailed National Exam outline available to ensure aspiring appraisers understand what education they need to prepare for the test.

4 New qualifying education will be added focusing on relevant topics.

5 The exam can be taken after education, prior to experience.

6 The continuing education requirement for trainees will be removed.

7 Supervisory Appraisers may be allowed to have more than three trainees at a time.

8 Appraisals that are legally confidential will be allowed for experience along with 3 USPAP compliant reports.

9 Appraisals that are written to International Valuation Standards will be allowed for experience along with 3 USPAP compliant reports.

10 Mass Appraisal experience will count toward experience credit.

While some changes may make sense, have no doubt that we are moving to an industry dominated by corporate training programs that will mass produce clones as needed. The future will be online training with a corporate supervisor pumping out dozens of clones across multiple states. And the best part? Accomplished with the help of grant money from the boards some of their execs sit on.

Anyway, if you're interested in watching:

December 5, 2025 meeting:

https://appraisalfoundation.org/pages/events-group-a/AQB-public-meeting

AQB Public Meeting - Virtual

The Appraiser Qualifications Board will be hosting a virtual public meeting December 5, 2025, from 1pm-2pm ET.

appraisalfoundation.org

 

[Bobby Bucks]

Supervisory Appraisers may be allowed to have more than three trainees at a time.

If the supervisory appraiser is the chief appraiser for an AMC that means an unlimited number of trainees.....and a discount on the software.

 

[Alsie35]

Or maybe not since the decisions have already been made in the backrooms. Don't believe me? Take a look at the board members/trustees and play 6 degrees to REVAA if you have any doubts. The link below is a chance to watch the transformation of our profession in real time, and to watch corporate interests dominate the process. The AQB and TAF no longer promote public trust, they promote corporate interests.

On the table:
1 Eliminate college degree requirements

2 All electives will be removed.

3 More detailed National Exam outline available to ensure aspiring appraisers understand what education they need to prepare for the test.

4 New qualifying education will be added focusing on relevant topics.

5 The exam can be taken after education, prior to experience.

6 The continuing education requirement for trainees will be removed.

7 Supervisory Appraisers may be allowed to have more than three trainees at a time.

8 Appraisals that are legally confidential will be allowed for experience along with 3 USPAP compliant reports.

9 Appraisals that are written to International Valuation Standards will be allowed for experience along with 3 USPAP compliant reports.

10 Mass Appraisal experience will count toward experience credit.

While some changes may make sense, have no doubt that we are moving to an industry dominated by corporate training programs that will mass produce clones as needed. The future will be online training with a corporate supervisor pumping out dozens of clones across multiple states. And the best part? Accomplished with the help of grant money from the boards some of their execs sit on.

Anyway, if you're interested in watching:

December 5, 2025 meeting:

AQB Public Meeting - Virtual

The Appraiser Qualifications Board will be hosting a virtual public meeting December 5, 2025, from 1pm-2pm ET.

appraisalfoundation.org

AQB Public Meeting - Virtual

The Appraiser Qualifications Board will be hosting a virtual public meeting December 5, 2025, from 1pm-2pm ET.

appraisalfoundation.org

When they announced the idea of 'PAREA' (an early iteration idea for the mass-minting of 'Appraisal Homunculi'), and shortly afterwards (in 2020) made the "UAD 3.6 Abomination" announcement, I said on these Boards that it was a 'Telegraphed Signal' that they intended to replace the independent appraiser with what I have come to call 'The 300 Appraisal Flying Monkeys' system, meaning that each step of the process (inspection, measuring, research, 'appraisal' preparation, etc) was going to be broken up between different 'Flying Monkeys', each one of which would be making peanuts.

And we are almost there. Luckily, we saw that freight train coming, we busted a move, and we are not going to beat our heads against the wall to help them to eliminate us. When the "1004 Regime" retires, so do we.

 

[Elliott]

If the supervisory appraiser is the chief appraiser for an AMC that means an unlimited number of trainees.....and a discount on the software.

Who needs trainees when you have 'super' appraisers, like there already are:

AI question: "How many appraisers have more than 10 licenses in different states? "Based on the analysis of the 2025 Appraisal Subcommittee (ASC) appraisal license data, there are approximately 66,700 active appraisers holding about 91,000 licenses nationwide. Among these, only about 0.5% (specifically 0.4% with 11–20 licenses and 0.1% with more than 20 licenses) hold licenses in more than 10 states, which translates to roughly 300–350 appraisers in total. However, not all of these appraisers work for or with Appraisal Management Companies (AMCs), so the number of AMC appraisers licensed in more than 10 states is likely smaller, potentially in the low hundreds or fewer.
Currently, there are about 349 licensed AMCs nationwide. Among them, only 47 AMCs (13%) are regional, operating in 10 to 29 states. Larger national AMCs (28 firms) operate in all 50 states, but they employ only a portion of those multi-state licensed appraisers.
Considering these data points, an informed estimate would be that there are likely between 100 to 200 AMC-affiliated appraisers holding licenses in more than 10 states nationwide. These “super” multi-state appraisers tend to work for large national or regional AMC firms specializing in high-volume or specialized appraisal work.
In summary:
• Total appraisers with licenses in >10 states: ~300–350
• Percentage likely working with AMCs: a fraction of those, roughly 100–200
• These appraisers are concentrated in large national or regional AMC firms with broad geographic coverage
This estimate combines licensing statistics with AMC coverage patterns and firm structures observed in 2025 data ."

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

11. That big pill they give you? You don't have to swallow it. It's a suppository.

 

[glenn walker]

I have yet to meet any appraiser who went to college with the intention of becoming an appraiser and only younger ones to take the required courses which are two gen ed ones as I recall. My neighbor kid at 35 had a GED and took the courses and became certified. IT'S NEVER BEEN A REQUIREMENT to have a college degree but few to none read all the other avenues that are available.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

have yet to meet any appraiser who went to college with the intention of becoming an appraiser

90% of the people I know who are appraisers became same when they were at least 30 years old. Many were in RE sales, worked insurance, or worked for the assessor, but all of them had 10 plus years in real estate related businesses or had some related field (I came out of oil where I did valuation of oil properties, foresters were valuing timberland until 1991, commercial underwriters and assessor went to licensing. No one comes out of college as you say and thinking, "Gee, appraising real estate and being a slave to a mentor for 3 years or so sounds like a plan."

 

[NC Appraising]

Must going to pass lol.

Ncpac and ncai have not sent any emails. I called them out last time.

All of orgs like keeping things quit until it passes. Nancy p. Trick. Can't read it until it passes.

If im wrong, I'll correct.

 

[glenn walker]

Many appraisers father took them in when Junior had no other skills and trained them to fill out forms. Just find
three comparables easy peasy and they required very little training.

A lot of old timers really embellish
how they were so bright and educated but the truth is many were always low educated form fillers who made extremely good money and now like to talk like they were valuation engineers or mathematicians.

Uncle Billy was a 35 year SREA todays MAI and he was a High School education and 4 years in the Navy as a Non Com radio operator.

 

[chad hampton]

Most of the low IQ folks I knew got into lending. Usually they were drunks, too many DUIs. Made them basically unhireable. Or mom or dad got them into the family business.