39 years ago I started my professional career as a young researchers for a prestigious litigation valuation firm who nurtured me and others who I was mentored by supported my apprenticeship helped me up to the point when I became competition. I got all my work from referral and built a good reputation and worked my address off. I had plenty of opportunity until about 2007 when the AI became more interested in International Valuation and they became irrelevant due to the hvcc, then and model. Brought on by a lawsuit designed to eliminate erroneous e-appraisals and regulate the hall out of us, we were asleep at the wheel. Then we crashed and still didn’t do anything to unite. I am looking for the AI leadership to wake up and plan on how to be effective in our lobbying and quit allowing appraisers to testify before congress who are selling our profession out of business. We have too much of an attitude that is a kind to a “know it all”. I am guilty of that too but I never say anything I can’t demonstrate. Documentation and ethics is what is needed. This is not a fraternity so we need to have the coursework to be offered at college’s rather than the fraternity. I think we have given too many years to the new amc model and some laws should be enforced against peer review when it is used to make complaints against appraisers, when the person crystals geographical competency is their complaint. That happens when peers act in their own self intetest. States have been sued by requiring a licencee to live in the state where they want a licence by reciprocity. Each appraiser has to do some work to analyze the local area or get help and we do that in every appraisal.

Nope. Stop the robots, and all of that. A computer is pre programmed by a human. Never trust a computer to understand the human factor. If you do, you’ve lost so much of your humanity, and might not even know it. Baggins, signing out from my old heavyweight desk, 15 year old printer, and real Bell phone with actual buttons and no pc chips to speak of. Fools rush in, and quality valuation professionals don’t let themselves become automated.

Those valuation professionals of the future that you speak of go by names such as: R2-D2, C-3P0, HAL, Data, Gort, Johnny 5, Robby, & Wall-E.

The checks & balance system that you rave about will soon be entirely in their hands.