In this episode, Blaine talks about how most people tend to believe they are in the business of appraising real estate, or selling real estate, or closing loans. This is the absolute wrong belief system to have in ANY business! Whatever business one is in can be broken down to people issues and marketing issues. 

Learn to reframe all of your business issues into people and marketing challenges and you'll start to see things from a different perspective.

In this episode, Blaine discusses the dilemma of being a licensed real estate salesperson while also being a licensed real estate appraiser. Blaine also goes into why the attitude that real estate agents are the 'enemy' is the absolute WRONG attitude to have to be a successful appraiser. 

Blaine talks a little more about the upcoming AppraiserFest and his hopes for a new era of appraisal training conferences. 

In this episode, Blaine answers a listener question about whether or not new real estate appraiser, Derek, got into the appraisal business at the wrong time. His question pertains to news and information he has been seeing that lead him to believe the appraisal industry is in decline and that his decision to get into it was the wrong one.

Listen in as Blaine gives Derek some advice and an appraisal veteran's view of the role of the real estate appraiser in the current world. A world rapidly changing due to technology and the needs of an evolving group of market participants.