Any Suggestions On How To Find A Mentor?

[WillWorkForTraining]

This is the kind of garbage that I am talking about.

And yet you can’t address my real points....

 

[Deleted member 152047]

And yet you can’t address my real points....

Where are your "real points?"

 

[WillWorkForTraining]

I realize you're frustrated and I sympathize with your situation.

However.......
I predict that you will never succeed in forcing appraisers to take on trainees, nor will you succeed in forcing the AQB to eliminate the experience requirement for licensing.

Thanks George. I’m not shooting for either of those outcomes. The experience requirement is critical, I don’t want to eliminate it. I’m shooting for a legit pathway to licensure. If it can’t come through existing licensees, if it’s truely too large of a burden as all of you suggest, the AQB should allow for alternate paths.

 

[George Hatch]

Thanks George. I’m not shooting for either of those outcomes. The experience requirement is critical, I don’t want to eliminate it. I’m shooting for a legit pathway to licensure. If it can’t come through existing licensees, if it’s truely too large of a burden as all of you suggest, the AQB should allow for alternate paths.

Why should they do that? What obligations do the AQB have towards would-be appraisers?


Just because I wanna be an astronaut doesn't mean that I have a human right to bypass the qualifications criteria it takes to become one.

 

[WillWorkForTraining]

Where are your "real points?"

If you read this thread as you suggest you should know...

 

[George Hatch]

Geez, the one participant in this entire forum who might actually have considered giving you the Golden Ticket and THAT'S the person you pick a fight with? You just burned the only bridge you may ever come across that might have helped you cross that chasm. I wouldn't ever have done that.

 

[miktay]

As for the rest, it’s a bunch of scared small business owners using a lot of words but are basically screaming “stay away from me! I’m afraid of competition! My 30 years in the business means nothing!”....it’s actually more sad than anything....

I see Mr. Bad Attitude is back for more.

 

[gregb]

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[bnmappraisal]

The problem is that there is no motivation for them to give you training.

(my bold) there's plenty of "motivation"to bring on trainees. BUT again, fees (in my case and in the case of most appraisers I know - especially RES) are a big factor. As many have said (throughout this forum, probably in this thread - I'm not going to go back through each page at this point) ... with fees many times only in the "$2xx - $3xx" range in many markets ... it's kind of difficult to bring someone on as a trainee and think you'll be able to pay them a "respectable" wage (notice I didn't even say a "living wage") for their time.

They see trainees as straight liabilities (which isn’t true) who are going to leave, steal their business and become competition (also not true if they pick carefully).

I'll speak for myself, but I believe many others feel similarly ... (my bold) NO, I DON'T see a trainee as a straight liability. I got into this business 10+ years ago thinking my 5-10 year goal was to hire/bring on a trainee and run a successful firm (keep them on as CR's and bringing in other trainees). Good, bad, indifferent, (appraisal) life happened (criteria changed, etc) and a trainee is not in the cards right now. Thankfully, I do run a successful shop, albeit me, myself and I. But, personally, it never has been because I thought a trainee(s) would be a liability.

 

[bnmappraisal]

And just to clarify - it's not "trainees" who are the problem, it's the existing oversupply in many areas that's the problem.