Negativity!

[jtrotta]

ED
got up & went out to the car, tire was flat; fixed it, went to start it and the battery was dead; fixed it, got in and the back part of the seat broke,wound up in the back seat; got outa the car - went to the house got my chainsaw and cut up the car. :lol:

thoght about all the money I made this week and went out bought another car :? seems all that money made was just to keep up with the jonesessss (recent car-1963 corvair) cost me a whopping $450 - oh well just another week in paradise 8O

Good Luck :!: :!:

 

[MARKETVALUE]

Ed,

Larry hit the nail on the head. If everyone else found out how great a career this is the appraiser market would be flooded (is it already???). I welcome you to the profession if it is ultimately what you decide to do. If you want to suceed, it is alot of hours and a lot of work.

Good Luck

MRM

 

[Randy Massengale]

Dear Ed... I have been appraising for 17 years in both good times and bad. I am 47 years old and have had 1 heart attack already. Family history, diet and smoking were a big factor, but so was stress, according to the doctor. I almost always work Saturday and put in a few hours on many Sundays. On the other hand, I have not missed a single soccer, basketball, sotball or volleyball game of my three daughters. I worked 12 years for an appraisal firm before I went out on my own. I promised the guy that gave me a chance to learn this business that I would not go after his clients when I left. I haven't . I think that a lot of the appraisers want you to know that this is a tough business to thrive in. Also, I believe that a lot of the appraisers are "venting". We sometimes need to let off a little steam. Long hours, pressures from homeowners, realtors, loan officers and many other negatives are the norm. In spite of this, I too love my job and will ride this train until it crashes into the proverbial wall. Good luck, Randy Massengale

 

[Dan/Fla]

Ed

I agree with the man that wants you to work for him and the others above. I love what I do yes there is presure, But isn't there pressure in every job, even the guy that flips hamburgers has pressure. Long hours, that really does not start till you go on your own, at least for me it didn't. Pressure , Realtors, lenders, brokers, I do not worry about them, if they start pushing to much for value I tell them to send me a check for $500,000, so that I can support me and my son if I lose my license for doing what they want. No the pressure I get and that really gets to me a super nice people of a cute lady that really needs the value to help them out of a problem or to get something they really want or need, knowing after inspecting it isn't going to happen, that when i feel the pressure and work extra hard though 99 time out of 100 when I am in this position it still not there. There again that when its bad, I want to give them the name of a few appraisers out there that motto is "Need a value, Get a value" But I can never bring myself to recommend them.

Also, like noted above, if and when you go on your own, never touch your mentors clients. Because that what the Nedd a value get a value appraisers do, and you do not want to ever get that as a tag. ( At least I hope)

 

[Kate]

Interesting.

The year Feb 2002.

The topic......... Negativity about Appraising...............HUM..............Sound farmilair?

It looks like this has been the tread for a long time.


OK Search freaks You got me hooked. Am I right that this forum only started in January 2002? I can't find a single post before that. Shame. I wanted to see if the 'negativity was ripe back in 2001 as well.

Not a whole lot on the very first page of the newbee forum. Each post is a couple days apart from each other. EXCEPT for a little post named Negativity. 13 people responded to that post where the average posts per topic is 3.77 (on that page anyway)

I have no real point to this except to say that the negitivity is here to stay. So What. Get over it. Take it or leave it. I have had zero problems getting into this field and I am busy. This may come to a dead stop as far a I know. If you worry about the future your whole life you will go no where in life. Your life will be full of worry and negativity.

Take a look at the people who posted on that first page. MANY are no longer here. Some still are, THANK GOD! I wonder though where they went. 2002. They had at least a year and a half of a fabulous market. Did they get discouraged and leave?

Thank you to all that have an opinion. Opinions are great. Fence sitters suck.

 

[Stone]

Katherine - the forum has been around longer than that, but it changed to the current format in the beginning of 2002. It didn't always have the different categories, and you could get all the posts e-mailed to you every day. It was always kind of fun to read through it all in e-mail form. They got way too long, eventually, and Wayne re-did the format of the place to organize it. It seems to have been a great success, as the number of members has increased a lot since the change. Unfortunately, the old posts have had to go away, but it has been around for a while.

It seems to me that the emphasis on perceived negativity is abated by the fact that people care enough to help others in the profession. That to me seems like a positive act. Negative/Positive is all how you look at it.