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@@tiffyhustle9380. Thank you. I appreciate your help. I hope to find a mentor soon so I can get started 🙂

Depends, you could get paid a salary if you are a staff appraiser. However independently you get paid per appraisal.

Get your Real Estate license for supplemental income.

How was mckissock? They have some very poor reviews lately, and their BBB is littered with some concerning issues. But the price and easily accessible courses just seem unbeatable. Unless your doing appraisal institute online, even finding all the classes seems complicated, I have yet to find another service that just offers every class you need in an easily accessible web page. If I don't choose mckissock or appraisal institute, I essentially have to take multiple courses from various different organizations and sponsors which is probably more expensive and more hassle. Well, that's how it is for my state at least. I was going to get my 30 college credits first but realized it's make more sense to get my trainees license first and work on the appraiser qualified education. That way, while I'm looking for work experience (which I heard is difficult, except now we have parea, which gives you Appraiser experience hours online) I can at least start knocking out the college courses then. As someone fresh out the gate, with no guidance and having to figure this out on my own, man it's complicated even figuring out how to get started.

@@skatmanscott You are right it's not many to choose due to McKissock buying out all the medium size competitors coast to coast. It also use to be half the price 6 years if you looked. You are right you can piece mail and end up finding out at the last minute one of your classes don't count. I just bought the bullet and purchased the 1 year subscription. Then you have the entire year to complete at your own pace. It will be harder to complete classes with no experience. After getting my trainee license it took me 4 years before I completed the rest of my classes because I needed 4 college classes.

@@allenwilson6462 yeah that would be a huge bummer if it turns out any of the college classes didn't count. Funny you mention this, this is actually a huge concern of mine, I've been worrying about this all week because I plan on getting my 30 college credits worth of courses through a very fast "competency based learning" college course program, I'm afraid they won't accept it. I'm completely unwilling to sit in a classroom setting and do the college courses in the traditional way and did lots of research into finding out legitimate ways to get these credits very fast. Problem is, I can not get a clear answer on if these courses will be accepted. I've called my appraisal state board education department, and they told me "this isn't out homework to figure out, this is your college course programs homework". So I called them, and the receptionist said I should ask my states appraisal state board lol! I've also emailed multiple different people from the Appraisal foundation, sponsors, the AQB, and different board members with no replies. The program is called Sophia learning. According to the fine print on my states certified Residential Appraiser qualifying college education: "All college-level education must be obtained from a degree-granting institution by the Commission on Colleges, a national or regional accreditation association, or by an accrediting agency that is recognized by the US Secretary of Education" Sophia Learning has an ACE credit, just like CLEP and they are an "approved course provider" for "DEAC" which is recognized by the US Department of education and is accredited by a national Accrediting agency. But I worry this will be unclear to them and they won't understand. The courses can easily be transferred for legitimate credits at over 1000 colleges though, it even has personal partnerships with 40 different colleges. So it does seem likely that they'll accept the course completions, but that small chance of it not working out has been plaguing my mind lol. If they don't accept, I'll just enroll in a college, transfer the completed courses for legitimate credits, and that should be the end of it. Damn that's very good determination, four years and you pulled it off, nice man! Do you have any experience with PAREA?

@@skatmanscott It got so slow for me that I took the last 4 colleges I needed last fall. It wasn't so bad because two were online and two hybrid but I could of did them completely online as well. So, that was 20 credits in one semester. At a local community college. No experience with PAREA. I still need to take my certified state license test. I'm studying using the site compucram for my test. It's like 150 for 6, month access. Another couple weeks I should be ready. Most college semesters are only 12 weeks so it goes pretty fast.

@@allenwilson6462 ahh that totally makes sense. If it's going slow and college classes wouldn't really hinder the timeline much, I could see that route being a great choice, plus 20 credits in one semester is quite impressive! The idea of going to class and meeting new people, making friends sounds very appealing to me. it will be a bit lonely doing all these courses online by myself. How come it got quite slow? Was it just the appraiser experience hours that went by slow? and if so, what factors played a roll in making it take a while? Yeah the 1500+ in qualifying experience is pretty infamous for taking a very long time from what I've seen. Also if I may ask, how old are you?