Bob Ipock
Elite Member
- Joined
- Jan 15, 2002
- Professional Status
- Certified Residential Appraiser
- State
- North Carolina
J,
You are right. You need to start out with a a trainee who understands from day one that there is a real good reason that ETHICS is the first Rule and section in the USPAP book.
I am mentoring a fine young man who is on his on now after being trained in another shop. He does not work for me or with me....he has his own shop. This fellow is having to unlearn two years of nonsense he was taught. He now KNOWS that a lot of the shortcuts he was taught are wrong. He calls me 3-4 times a week to ask a question etc. Just yesterday he called and asked me to help him properly learn how to calculate Marshall & Swift. He was never told about Quarterly or Local Multipliers!
This young man appears to me to be honest, ethical and interested in doing what is right....yet he was never trained in that manner.
As for the FIFTY RULE....I agree. It is an arbitrary number. Much like the age for getting a drivers liscense, the legal drinking age, speed limits etc.
FIFTY may be excessive for some bright young trainees and not nearly enough for some others. There simply has to be some method for making sure a trainee gets exposed to enough training in the field and the oportunity to ask a lot of questions OUT IN THE FIELD while someone is right beside him to help. I have seen and heard of trainees who only see their supervisor for 1 hour or less per week. They work from home and only see the supervisor when they drop off reports. Too often the reports are signed without even being glanced at. At minimum, a desk review of all data, comps, content and conclusions should be done for a trainee. I would say 1 hour or so MINIMUM for each report signed. This is NOT what is being done in my neck of the woods. I have witnessed a trainees report being signed by the supervisor and mailed or e-mailed with not even a glance...just a quick signature from the boss.
Training another person in a profession is an awesome responsibility. This is true for plumbers, electricians, accountants, appraisers...whatever.
In most cases a trainee in any filed is looking for the fastest, easiest way to be able to work on his own. I would never consider someone for a trainee if I did not think they had the desire, ability and potential to have
their own shop. I am not anti-trainee....I am anti-supervisors who don't take this responsibility seriously.
You are right. You need to start out with a a trainee who understands from day one that there is a real good reason that ETHICS is the first Rule and section in the USPAP book.
I am mentoring a fine young man who is on his on now after being trained in another shop. He does not work for me or with me....he has his own shop. This fellow is having to unlearn two years of nonsense he was taught. He now KNOWS that a lot of the shortcuts he was taught are wrong. He calls me 3-4 times a week to ask a question etc. Just yesterday he called and asked me to help him properly learn how to calculate Marshall & Swift. He was never told about Quarterly or Local Multipliers!
This young man appears to me to be honest, ethical and interested in doing what is right....yet he was never trained in that manner.
As for the FIFTY RULE....I agree. It is an arbitrary number. Much like the age for getting a drivers liscense, the legal drinking age, speed limits etc.
FIFTY may be excessive for some bright young trainees and not nearly enough for some others. There simply has to be some method for making sure a trainee gets exposed to enough training in the field and the oportunity to ask a lot of questions OUT IN THE FIELD while someone is right beside him to help. I have seen and heard of trainees who only see their supervisor for 1 hour or less per week. They work from home and only see the supervisor when they drop off reports. Too often the reports are signed without even being glanced at. At minimum, a desk review of all data, comps, content and conclusions should be done for a trainee. I would say 1 hour or so MINIMUM for each report signed. This is NOT what is being done in my neck of the woods. I have witnessed a trainees report being signed by the supervisor and mailed or e-mailed with not even a glance...just a quick signature from the boss.
Training another person in a profession is an awesome responsibility. This is true for plumbers, electricians, accountants, appraisers...whatever.
In most cases a trainee in any filed is looking for the fastest, easiest way to be able to work on his own. I would never consider someone for a trainee if I did not think they had the desire, ability and potential to have
their own shop. I am not anti-trainee....I am anti-supervisors who don't take this responsibility seriously.
