TN Bill To Kill Appraiser License Requirement

[Eli]

Just gives me reason to buy more ammunition for my guns and feed my dogs more. Pass it. I'll survive as long as I can.

 

[Frank McKee]

The push to eliminate licensing is coming and being brought to you by the Koch Brothers ( What is left of them). This is big stuff in libertarian and conservative think tanks. I would say there is a very good chance of this happening in the next 10 years.

There is no chance of this ever happening.

 

[Frank McKee]

Any reasonably objective history of the appraisal profession would - IMO - at least argue that licensing was a significant part of its decline, if not its death knell. When a state issued license became the single most imporant credential for an appraiser, professional appraisers started their losing battle trying to defend their profession - someone's License #12345 was deemed all the evidence a client needed to satisfy regulatory requirements, and those letters appended after an appraiser's name - SRA, IFA, RM and all ther rest - became irrelevant for most residential work.

You are so right, Peter. Licensing was the beginning of the end. Once licensed, appraisers became fungible license-holders.