Trainee Appraiser Hours

[cade888]

Hey everyone,

I am a trainee apprasier and have been working for about 6 months now. I have begun to log my hours in excel since we need 1500 hours to apply for a residential license and I am trying to figure out an approriate amount to put on my time sheet for each appraisal. Can anyone who has been through the trainee process advise me to what they did to log their hours? Right now for residential appraisals I have been putting between 3-7 hours depending if I drove to the property or not & commercial up to 10 hours (although those will count seperately). Just looking for some advice on the timekeeping process.
Thanks

 

[andrew81]

Florida has a required experience log. Form DBPR RE-2300 (the Appraisal Experience Log)

Licensing Portal - Checklist Details

This is what the Illinois log says for hours claimed:

Hours Claimed: These are the hours that you, as the applicant, are claiming for the specific
assignment. Please refer to the Real Estate Appraiser Experience Guide Matrix for maximum
assignment hours. Travel to and from an appraisal will NOT be counted. Do NOT claim fractions
of hours. Round to the nearest whole hour. An assignment that took 9.5 hours must be rounded
to 10 hours. Anything exceeding the matrix for any property type MUST be separately
documented on the LOG-7575 form. There are NO exceptions.

 

[Fernando]

In CA, Supervisory appraisers are required to take a class to work with Trainees in logging their hours.
I never took such a CE course since I don't plan to use Trainees soon.

 

[Elliott]

Here's an example, not FL, but OR:

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

commercial up to 10 hours

Wow...what kind of commercial property can be completed in 10 hours? I rarely find any commercial property that I can develop 2 or more approaches on and create a summary report in less than 2 days. Our state allows up to 40 hours for commercial. We logged most residential assignments as one day. 8 hours.

 

[Tiffany Gibbons]

Wow...what kind of commercial property can be completed in 10 hours? I rarely find any commercial property that I can develop 2 or more approaches on and create a summary report in less than 2 days. Our state allows up to 40 hours for commercial. We logged most residential assignments as one day. 8 hours.

I think a commercial vacant land form appraisal was 10 hours (in Tennessee). It was 8 hours for residential URAR forms and 30-40 hours for most commercial/industrial appraisals. It was defined on the state website.

 

[Tiffany Gibbons]

In CA, Supervisory appraisers are required to take a class to work with Trainees in logging their hours.
I never took such a CE course since I don't plan to use Trainees soon.

I took that 4 hour class a few years back when I had a trainee. It did not cover anything useful Iike that. It was a useless class for both of us.

 

[JTip]

Sample from another state.

 

[cade888]

Florida has a required experience log. Form DBPR RE-2300 (the Appraisal Experience Log)

Licensing Portal - Checklist Details

This is what the Illinois log says for hours claimed:

Hours Claimed: These are the hours that you, as the applicant, are claiming for the specific
assignment. Please refer to the Real Estate Appraiser Experience Guide Matrix for maximum
assignment hours. Travel to and from an appraisal will NOT be counted. Do NOT claim fractions
of hours. Round to the nearest whole hour. An assignment that took 9.5 hours must be rounded
to 10 hours. Anything exceeding the matrix for any property type MUST be separately
documented on the LOG-7575 form. There are NO exceptions.

Florida has a required experience log. Form DBPR RE-2300 (the Appraisal Experience Log)

Licensing Portal - Checklist Details

This is what the Illinois log says for hours claimed:

Hours Claimed: These are the hours that you, as the applicant, are claiming for the specific
assignment. Please refer to the Real Estate Appraiser Experience Guide Matrix for maximum
assignment hours. Travel to and from an appraisal will NOT be counted. Do NOT claim fractions
of hours. Round to the nearest whole hour. An assignment that took 9.5 hours must be rounded
to 10 hours. Anything exceeding the matrix for any property type MUST be separately
documented on the LOG-7575 form. There are NO exceptions.

Wow...what kind of commercial property can be completed in 10 hours? I rarely find any commercial property that I can develop 2 or more approaches on and create a summary report in less than 2 days. Our state allows up to 40 hours for commercial. We logged most residential assignments as one day. 8 hours.

Since I am only a trainee, those 10 hours were the sections of the report that I helped complete. I helped work on developing the sales comparison approach which was roughly 10 hours. You logged most residentials as a one day assignment, I was thinking of doing the same thing as we usually work on one a day.

 

[cade888]

Here's an example, not FL, but OR:

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Thanks. Did you typically do 8 hours per residential report?