Feb 8, 2017
Dustin gets emails weekly from individuals who want to become an appraiser, but cannot find a mentor. If you are in that boat, listen up while Dustin gives you a few tips.
Your observations and thoughts about working for free or cheap are well founded and quite reasonable. There are many professions where these types of behaviors are quite established and necessary whether it be residency, clerking, etc. This could be quite effective especially if people went to Idaho to get trained (for example) and then left and went back to Florida to work (another example) and have no competition issues.
However, you need to reconcile these thoughts with your education and requirements opinion since those tend to move more towards a vocation rather than a profession.
It is not unreasonable for a professional to have an undergraduate degree in something and then even more eduction in the classroom and on the job. I know that not many appraisers want to think of this being a vocation, but this is where the requirements were until recently. The new requirements are more professional.
Accompanying a trainee on an inspection will sort it's self out. More and more companies will start to adopt this as a way to lower requirements and get appraiser to accept their orders over another bank. The market will take care of this one in due time.