Larry,
While I appreciate your response and see your point very clearly, you are assuming things about my character that are simply not true. I would thank you to think a little before you tell someone to quit anything. This may be a philosophy that works for you but pressing it on others, especially those whom you do not know, is more than a little short sighted.
I do not wish to justify anything. I am only speaking on what your colleagues in the field are already doing. I don't want to do things in any particular way before I even learn how they are done. That is why I am here. Maybe I have come to the wrong place.
Larry if you are going to meet the up and coming appraisers in your field with the advise to quit, why even spend your twilight years wasted here on the www?
Careful or I'll come to the Carolinas and take all your business.
I am not at all saying that you have poor character, or that you would steal money when nobody was looking. Sorry if that is the kind of character you think I am talking about.
I am talking about the kind of character traits like people who talk too much, or worry too much about their appearance.
You are too worried about how things LOOK vs how they are. I will give you credit, you are on this forum. That is a great start. But friend, in business, things are either legal and permissable or they aren't. Rather than ask a group what is legal and permissible, while at the same time trying to find a way to make it so...find out what the real deal is and adjust your reality to the facts and not the other way around.
My dad used to say" A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. I just don't sense the open mindedness necessary to bring about change in your way of thinking.
I am sure that you never do things that you think are wrong....I just see that you are able to justify some things that you think might be wrong.
And, by the way, I am 34, my twilight years are some ways off. I have just been doing this long enough now to say that I have seen plenty of people willing to use moral equivalence and say that is the way it is. But it isn't. That is the way people force it to be. Once you step outside of your circle of control, you will find there are other, better ways of viewing the appriasal profession, and the whole world for that matter.
Don't be so open minded that your brain falls out(no danger for you there) but don't make up your mind so tight as to not be influenced by the facts.
There is no room for situational ethics in an industry where the stakes are this high. You have to have your mind made up before your fee is on the line, or you will let the situation dictate the ethics in play.
When the bills are paid, say no... when the bills are late, find a way to justify it? I just smell on your posts that you are at risk---notice I say at risk, not that you already do---to make breaking the law and being professional, well....optional.
sorry. I really should stay out of the newb forum.
