Atlanta CG
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jan 15, 2002
- Professional Status
- Certified General Appraiser
- State
- Georgia
OK, now a rant from a loyal reader who is just frustrated and tired from 51 weeks of (little) work and waiting for Saturday to start his one week's annual vacation with the family.
Lots of talk about the lack of professional fees in our industry, about little respect for our knowledge and importance in the lending process and oncoming changes that may marginalize our position even more.
Yet, what I read sounds more like my 3-year old grandkids talking: "...me and my staff", "..."there sales are not what I....", "...us appraisers need to....", .......
And, to rant more, how do you expect others to respect our professionalism by sending them to this forum to view the comments, arguments, and opinions with names we hide under that are better suited to Saturday Night Live shows or Wrestlemania? Can you imagine Tom Brokaw, taking over from Russert, telling the viewers that (such as- and I'm making this up but you get the picture) "Pieface" on Appraiser's Forum states that we should listen to his professional opinon on the role of appraisers in this economy, or some such.
WE are professionals, and as such we should at least present ourselves as such at a minimum. Most of us have time on our hands now. Pick up your old English grammar book and time block even 15 minutes a day to review it. Put it in your library so at least 5 minutes a day is spent viewing it. Think about who we respect and if they were referred to as the same moniker as you are, would your respect be the same?
It does not take much. We do not need to be English majors, but we should be able to converse with minimal grammatical errors. Learn a new word, even if it is one a week. Using it in a report, or in conversation, that may better express what we are trying the reader to understand. It will be more effective and perhaps impress the client and make them understand that we are better than average, that we work hard to continue our education, not only in real estate but in communication in general so we are taken more seriously in our profession. And, as a result, earn the respect and the $$$ that it creates.
10-4, end of rant.
Lots of talk about the lack of professional fees in our industry, about little respect for our knowledge and importance in the lending process and oncoming changes that may marginalize our position even more.
Yet, what I read sounds more like my 3-year old grandkids talking: "...me and my staff", "..."there sales are not what I....", "...us appraisers need to....", .......
And, to rant more, how do you expect others to respect our professionalism by sending them to this forum to view the comments, arguments, and opinions with names we hide under that are better suited to Saturday Night Live shows or Wrestlemania? Can you imagine Tom Brokaw, taking over from Russert, telling the viewers that (such as- and I'm making this up but you get the picture) "Pieface" on Appraiser's Forum states that we should listen to his professional opinon on the role of appraisers in this economy, or some such.
WE are professionals, and as such we should at least present ourselves as such at a minimum. Most of us have time on our hands now. Pick up your old English grammar book and time block even 15 minutes a day to review it. Put it in your library so at least 5 minutes a day is spent viewing it. Think about who we respect and if they were referred to as the same moniker as you are, would your respect be the same?
It does not take much. We do not need to be English majors, but we should be able to converse with minimal grammatical errors. Learn a new word, even if it is one a week. Using it in a report, or in conversation, that may better express what we are trying the reader to understand. It will be more effective and perhaps impress the client and make them understand that we are better than average, that we work hard to continue our education, not only in real estate but in communication in general so we are taken more seriously in our profession. And, as a result, earn the respect and the $$$ that it creates.
10-4, end of rant.