It's not that education is bad. I actually enjoy learning new techniques and methods for appraising and knowing what my peers are doing. It's just craming all this new info into to such a short amount of time, is not what I like to do.....(my college days were much for fun when I left studies until the last minute.....I had lots of reserve, stamina back then too!) I should have taken more care in spreading out the classes, and allow my brain to process and absorb what I learned, and also the time to practice what I had learned. Now its becoming all a blur..... and I'm not sure I'm retaining a whole lot, other than the required hours!
Classes on updates, verbiage for form filling, acceptable appraisal practice, responsibility, accountability, who owns the photos? and report, legal issues in apprasing, who is my client, who is NOT my client, appraisal review and underwriting rules and proceedures, changes to the USPAP - Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice and new educational requirements for getting a license in appraising, use and supervision of a trainee.... and on and on and on.......
Most people are aware that appraisers are to remain objective, and unbiased in the appraisal process and are to follow USPAP. Some don't care. However, USPAP sets up rules, standards and guidelines to promote and maintain public trust and to avoid fraud and to set a standard by which the process of lending is streamlined and effecient. So all this education is good not only for me, but for the common good of public trust and for my clients.
I just should have been a bit more wise about spreading it out instead of waiting until the last minute. I'm a pretty smart guy. But lately I'm a bit over stimiluted.
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