Do you foresee the bachelor degree requirement ever going away

[TerryRohrer]

When I go to Appraisal Institute conferences, all the commercial appraisers look very formal wearing suits whereas residentials look casual.
AI wants to uplift the appraisal business as high profession especially with their MAI and SRAs.
Residentials know these certifications don't matter much to them. We're just part of the clog in the lending industry.

I agree, the appraisal industry as a whole needs to take immediate action to remove the appraisers who are clogs in the system. Nothing worse than a backed up sewer line.

 

[George Hatch]

the commercial appraiser does not normally look in crawl spaces or attics.
put your suit on and go for it.....

I guess I can buy a suit just to impress my peers.....

I'm actually coming up on 40yrs in this business later this summer. Most of it as a CG. I started out wearing a button down with tie and leather shoes because I was always getting hassled for my age. For a couple years I did the T-shirt/Dockers, no-sox look during the summer but that just made my looks-too-young problem worse.

I went to business casual at the bank because our offices were on the 11th floor and the retail customers never saw us. And because our bank was in California, not on the East Coast. The culture is different. I went to jeans/button down a few years later and that has been that. I always appraised community-oriented properties, not institutional grade properties so my attire was never a problem.