Experience logs?Please help me

[rbrienza]

Melissa,
Call the State and talk to Mike Beery. They will look at the drive time and if it is reasonable then they may accept it. But basicaly they look a guideline as 8 hrs per residential and 100 hours per commerical report. Of course complex means more. Drive time needs to be reasonable .. I ask you this question 38,000 miles / 60 mph = 633.33 hrs if you where at the state would you accept over a quarter of the reuired hrs of drive time as experince?
I heard a story of a person who counted taking her computer to the store to have fixed and shopping for snacks for their appriasal office as experience - they did not get there upgrade.

The State of Colorado is very reasonable in there rules on upgrades.

BTW -- I understand your plight I am going from AR to GC. That is one reason why I talk to the good people down at the state.

Good luck

 

[Metamorphic]

FWIW, I have a bound numbered page book. Each assignment goes on a page. I log the date and time what I did. Bad habit from my career in geology.
"6/20/08 0800-840 Met with super to discuss assignment.
0840-0930 Drove to sub.
0930-1030 Insp. complete, begin comp insp.
1130 field work complete, back home. "

If I wanted to I could go through and match up the date and time stamps on my saved work files and reports to the dates and times in the log.

If I get any flack from them when I go apply for my AL, I'll drop that book on them. I doubt there's anybody at the state that would want to deny my license bad enough to go through the log in detail. Its been my experience that if you have one level of detailed backup documentation beyond what anyone was expecting, you can usually cool the jets of bureaucrat or state agent that wants to say you're wrong.

 

[melissa995]

I'm going to go for certified to but I need to get out from under current mentor. I get about half of my own clients and supposed to get 50% of all my work,getting paid is like pulling teeth.

 

[Smokey Bear]

Don't count on them reading your hand written log. Just because you write down everything you do doesn't mean it all qualifies. Back to the OP, commute time just doesn't figure in the appraisal time. Neither does time learning how to do spreadsheets etc. You get credit for time doing appraisals, but are still expected to fund your education.

 

[melissa995]

I have that on all my job folders. Thanks for all your input

 

[Stone]

I'll say this as an "out of stater": Don't listen to out of staters. Listen to your board/regulatory department and other people who have gone through it in your state.

 

[JTip]

Honestly, ignore hours. Focus on doing/loging 250 reports. Then you will be close to your time.