AQB Considering Reducing Residential License Experience Requirements

[Deleted member 130081]

Good, Bad, Not Sure? Why?

 

[hastalavista]

I voted keep the experience requirement as-is and have already submitted my comments to the AQB to that effect.

 

[bnmappraisal]

I voted to keep it

I remember thinking early on (mid 2000's) when I was getting into this field "If I can pass the test, why do I need all these hours?" ... fast forward to 11+ yrs later (and CR since 2009) ... As many have stated (and I think some have as their signature line) "You don't know what you don't know"

Even to this day, although Certified, I still am learning more and more

I also look at it as a badge of honor sort of thing. I'm an Eagle Scout and am very proud of that fact. When I received that honor, the stat was approximately only 3% of boys who started in scouting ever achieved that highest rank. I'm proud to be among those 3%. I look at appraising/appraisers as similar. There are millions of people in real estate ... but how many real estate people are appraisers?! (less than 100,000 give or take)

By reducing the hours required, I think it turns the profession into a "churn and burn" type mentality. In my opinion, if you want to become an appraiser ... you have to WANT to become an appraiser and do the time. It shouldn't be an "easy" road.

 

[djd09]

Who voted for 5000? That may be the perfect number.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

None of my trainees got their 2000 hr in less than 3 years using the guidelines of the state. A 2 week assignment of complex property garnered you 20 hr...period. And the system is gamed by those willing just like online CE. I am confident one fellow I know was adding his assistant to every appraisal regardless whether he did anything or not. Suddenly he had enough hours within six months. Then he sold him his company.

 

[Meandering]

What's the difference if every few years they can't decide what an appraisal is, or is not, what a client is, or if the client is an agent, or if the agent is the client and if the client has used an agent if any confidentiality owed to an agent of the client.

On and On and On, just make it up as they go along, so long as you buy that USPAP book and take the USPAP class every few years, they have the money to operate.



If there were an appraiser shortage the ASC would run out of operating income, or would have to tighten it's budget and have fewer meetings.



Didn't seem to happen.

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