AQB Update On Proposed Changes To Appraiser Qualifications

[George Hatch]

So what? I bet the college grad at that entry level position won't be making $12 an hour down the road, they'll use it as an entry level to get promoted within the company or to get a better job once they have a bit of experience. Whereas the non college grad hired at $12 an hour might be stuck there ..

I see you're still focused on the individual and their income potential instead of what the job does and doesn't require in the way of skills.

The employee this guy replaced was a HS dropout who performed the job quite well until she got pregnant and moved back East. Nothing about the job has changed in the interim.

 

[J Grant]

I see you're still focused on the individual and their income potential instead of what the job does and doesn't require in the way of skills.

?? My response to him , and the topic had nothing to do with job or skills or income, it was about ethics.

 

[djd09]

Don't hurry back. You made my point.

 

[George Hatch]

So what? I bet the college grad at that entry level position won't be making $12 an hour down the road, they'll use it as an entry level to get promoted within the company or to get a better job once they have a bit of experience. Whereas the non college grad hired at $12 an hour might be stuck there ..

I see you're still focused on the individual and their income potential instead of what the job does and doesn't require in the way of skills.

?? My response to him , and the topic had nothing to do with job or skills or income, it was about ethics.

Sorry, I quoted the wrong post to respond to.

But hey, maybe the new hire is more ethical because they went to college.

 

[J Grant]

I see you're still focused on the individual and their income potential instead of what the job does and doesn't require in the way of skills.
Sorry, I quoted the wrong post to respond to.
But hey, maybe the new hire is more ethical because they went to college.

I don't know what your point is about the anecdote about your son. If the company's requirement of skills is such that they hired a college grad for an entry level job of $12, what was your point? Perhaps he was the better qualified or they see in him someone that might go on to be promoted to other positions. You know that company, I don't.

AS far as a new hire being more ethical, that can only be seen when an ethical dilemma comes up during business. The sad fact is that a business run by a less than ethical person might encourage a less than ethical choice if it means more profit. A new hire who went to college will at least have been exposed to ethics somewhere in the course work or reading, and at least will have enough reasoning to recognize what an ethical dilemma is. What choice they make might reflect the morality of the person or culture of the company . But having idiots on board who can't even understand what an ethical dilemma is, that speaks to the worst of hiring or screening.

 

[djd09]

 

[Evincere]

This is the first time I am hearing about the structure of the profession pre-licensing.
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You didn't know what you didn't know but now you know and that's a good thing. George summed the pre-licensing days up rather nicely and more than adequately in many of his posts - go back and reread those posts if necessary.

 

[Evincere]

I don't know what your point is about the anecdote about your son. If the company's requirement of skills is such that they hired a college grad for an entry level job of $12, what was your point? Perhaps he was the better qualified or they see in him someone that might go on to be promoted to other positions. You know that company, I don't.

Sort of ironic. When considering so many of your own disdainful posts regarding AMCs hiring the cheapest and fastest. But hey, perhaps some where down the line AMCs will consider advanced education criteria as a measure to pay higher fees? You have a degree? How's that working out for you? Meh, then again, perhaps they will substitute your infallible knowledge on all matters - even those not appraisal related.

 

[Meandering]

Sort of ironic. When considering so many of your own disdainful posts regarding AMCs hiring the cheapest and fastest. But hey, perhaps some where down the line AMCs will consider advanced education criteria as a measure to pay higher fees? You have a degree? How's that working out for you? Meh, then again, perhaps they will substitute your infallible knowledge on all matters - even those not appraisal related.

Good news!

If the AMC is claiming to pay "recent rates" they already have to, by law, consider that college degree and make a fee adjustment for her.


Too bad that degree, or appraisal experience, did not teach her to:
A. assess whether or not she is being paid more than an appraiser with less experience and education in the geographic market,
B. Read the law and already know this information without me having to bother posting it,
C. stand up and demand the AMC follow the law and pay her more.

So market data says, that degree is worth how much in the current market?


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[J Grant]

I think it's working well since I have been able to move away mostly from AMC work with most of my clients now better pay direct lenders. For awhile I got stuck working for more AMCs due to post HVCC merging of clients. I think my report writing skills allowed me to get approved for panels of better clients.

I don't hold myself out to be the brightest in the world nor have I made the best financial decisions in my personal life- but I do think more education helped me be a better appraiser, and that is what counts for the appraisal field.