What Are You Doing To Better The Profession?

[Lee Lansford]

Charlotte, here in Illinois there are approximately a half-dozen "special investigators" (independent contractors; hired on a case-by-case basis) who provide field investigations and then communicate a written report of the findings of the investigation. Investigators HAVE to first be competent appraisers.

I am not an expert when it comes to politics and how your state's regulatory agency is set-up, but I do surmise that your state would benefit from an effective appraiser advocacy group. From earlier posts, I know that you have interest is such group. I wish you well.

Lee

 

[Bob Ipock]

50 states......more than 50 different ways

 

[DB]

Back the original question of this thread ..... What am I doing to improve this profession?

I look at it more like what am I NOT doing to improve this profession.

I am NOT doing free work (comp checks, etc)

I am NOT inflating values

I am NOT caving to lender pressures

I am NOT acting or posting in a manner unbecoming of this profession

I am NOT compromising my personal ethics

I am NOT compromising my professional ethics

I am NOT accepting orders with shakey or illegal verbiage

I am NOT abandoning my participation in this forum

I am NOT speaking ill of this profession, it's problems or it's downfalls to those who would seek to use them against it (and us)

I am NOT doing anything that does not promote this as a profession

and lastly .... which incorporates my business related New Year's resolution ... I am NOT doing anymore mortgage work for less than $600.00 COD ....

 

[Charlotte Dixon]

Originally posted by Doug Bingham@Jan 2 2006, 11:57 AM
Back the original question of this thread ..... What am I doing to improve this profession?

But Doug................?

 

[DB]

Charlotte dear .... I haven't been married for quite a while now and you are taking me back to illicit the following response .... :rofl:

"But what??"

:rofl: :rofl:

 

[Charlotte Dixon]

Originally posted by Doug Bingham@Jan 2 2006, 12:46 PM
Charlotte dear .... I haven't been married for quite a while now and you are taking me back to illicit the following response .... :rofl:

"But what??"

:rofl: :rofl:

Doug, Darling.....

Never Mind, I'll take that as a YES! :rofl:

Don't want to bring up any old memories! :rofl:

 

[Dan Blanchard]

In Missouri in November of this (I’m pretty sure it’s this year), year licensed appraisers will be required to have a supervisors signature. Also at the same time this kicks in, Certified Residential Appraisers will become limited to single family residential appraisals. A CR will be able to appraise rural property on Small Acreage as long as H & B Use is Residential. In other words Certified Residential Appraisers in MO. will be restricted to appraising what the AVM's are taking over. Now with that in mind and considering residential appraising is down to checking boxes, it would appear to me that Getting Organized is a little late. After November of this year I see no reason for lenders to hire appraisers that are not certified general in Missouri. Think about it. Your in an assignment and discover that the highest and best use is not residential. Mr. Lender I’m sorry but I’m not qualified to do this assignment. Of course you could run out and do a rough appraisal while the lender patiently waits for you to decide if your qualified to accept the assignment which is a USPAP requirement. I can just see lenders sitting around holding an assignment while the CR decides weather or not they are qualified. Why would lenders want to risk such a scenario (once they become aware of it), when they could have just hired a certified general and been done with it? I think after November of this year in Missouri certified residential appraisers will be discriminated against. As for “independent” licensed appraisers, if they don’t complete up-grading by November, their little career is over. You say can’t they just find someone to signoff on their stuff? This is a me, me, me profession. You have national groups that think they are better than all the other groups, chapters with in a group that think they are better than all the other chapters and individuals within a chapter that think they are the only ones fit to be an appraiser! Forget about one national organization it’s not going to happen. As for organizations that have leaned heavily towards residential appraising, as residential appraising continues to decline, these organizations have no place to go but down. A state can show say 2,000 appraisers on the roster, but if 500 have found other things to do, then the state has 1,500 appraisers. The 500 would certainly have no need for association much less a designation. These are just my thoughts, just a post. I need to get back to my book.