Do you foresee the bachelor degree requirement ever going away

[sputnam]

Eliminating the degree requirement is a mistake. As a profession, we should be striving for more excellence, not lessening the qualifications required.

 

[sputnam]

Just found this in an appraisal report. "The opinion of the site value is bsed on the support for the opinion of site value." Tell me again that we should lower education standards for appraisers.

 

[BRCJR]

Just found this in an appraisal report. "The opinion of the site value is bsed on the support for the opinion of site value." Tell me again that we should lower education standards for appraisers.

My all-time favorite:

 

[Dale Floyd]

Just found this in an appraisal report. "The opinion of the site value is bsed on the support for the opinion of site value." Tell me again that we should lower education standards for appraisers.

Since you found that during a time of college education standards, one might think you just offered proof that the current standards are meaningless to the profession.

 

[George Hatch]

There have been degree requirements for the Appraisal Institute's SRA designation for many years. Higher QE and experience criteria, too. Higher quality courses and higher quality instructors when compared to much of their competition in the QE/CE markets.

The more highly qualified alternative has already been available to the clients and users for many years. And for sure, there are clients out there who value the extra credentials and some of those clients are willing to pay extra for them.

IMO when an SRA is scoring repeat business from the higher quality client and the higher fee it will almost always be because of their own effort and attention to detail in their workproduct, not because of the designation itself in isolation of their work ethic. They're not more conscientious in their work because of their qualifications, they pursued the additional qualifications because they're more conscientious.

YMMV

 

[sputnam]

Since you found that during a time of college education standards, one might think you just offered proof that the current standards are meaningless to the profession.

You assume that the writer of that report has a college degree. Not sure what your support for that conclusion is.

 

[Dale Floyd]

You assume that the writer of that report has a college degree. Not sure what your support for that conclusion is.

And you assumed the writer didn't? Isn't it a requirement right now?

 

[sputnam]

And you assumed the writer didn't? Isn't it a requirement right now?

It's a requirement for Certified Appraisers. It's not required for Registered Trainees or Licensed Residential Appraisers.

 

[BRCJR]

It's a requirement for Certified Appraisers. It's not required for Registered Trainees or Licensed Residential Appraisers.

also depends upon when the individual was certified. long time (before 2015) back it was not required. then there became an alternate path in 2018. CG did not require college degree or alternate path before 2008.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

My all-time favorite:

A degree won't fix that.