I’m back and it is exactly as I suspected when I saw the name. I know exactly who this is and why he isn’t trying to break into the business anymore, and it has nothing to do with him thinking this is a crooked business. I’m glad he didn’t make it into the business, because in my opinion if he had gotten his own license it was his intention to run the most crooked shop in town. He would have never known how to do it the right way because he never worked with that type of appraiser or with that type of client.
His problem with the licensing program was that he thought he was too smart to need to adhere to the experience requirements to earn his license. He even goes on about it in this article. He’s a guy who worked and had some success in corporate America and thought that having to gain experience under supervision was demeaning to someone like him.
As for whether he actually is smarter than the average trainee, he told me a couple years back that I was stupid for thinking there was risk in the market trends because “this is San Diego and values never go down here”. Smart guy, huh?
The investigation that was underway when he resigned his trainee license involved, by his own admission, allegations that he violated our professional ethics as well as applicable regulations involving his license.
You folks are smart enough to read for content and make your own decisions about credibility, but allow me to say that among appraisers this guy is considered to be the ultimate troll.
