How I become a Successful Trainee Supervisor. Now you can too!
My dream of owning my own company finally became a reality in 2008. I wanted to own a company ever since I was a kid when my oldest brother started "The Entrepreneurs Club". Basically, a think tank for me and my siblings to come up with a business idea and make money. We all loved the idea and got to work because, similar to how most kids feel, we thought our Dad worked too much.

I am quite sure starting a real estate appraising company never occurred between me and my siblings, but I remember feeling so proud of myself as I completed that first appraisal as a business owner. It was a nice well over a million-dollar house in a beautiful suburban neighborhood of Seattle, a neighborhood I could only dream of living in at the time.

The orders kept rolling in that first year, thanks in large part to my Supervisors who provided the foundation for me to be successful. Too many orders in fact. Working long hours day after day while doing it all myself was not the reason I started a business. So, I decided to start training appraiser Trainees to help out and eventually provide supplemental income. However, what I did not realize was, it is exceedingly difficult to be successful at training Trainees!

After nearly seven years and several Trainees later, all I had to show for it was…one other Certified Appraiser. That was it. Not exactly the business dream I had thought it was going to be. Not only that, but I was still working long hours trying to train and establish the company. I was now married, had a son in 2013, and another one on the way due in early 2015. Anxiety set in about repeating the "Dad works too much" cycle. My theme song was becoming Cat’s in the Cradle! My plan was not working, and I felt destined to have the same conversations with my kids that my Dad had with me, "sorry guys, but I have to work".

As luck would have it, after posting a job opening in late 2014 I found two applicants that looked promising. One applicant was already a Trainee and had been for almost two years and the other was a recent college graduate with an Economics degree and a near 4-point GPA, with no appraising experience. I only planned on hiring one Trainee originally, but after the interviews, I thought why not hire both, finish training the one with experience for a few months until he is Certified, while having the other do data entry.

What happened? The Trainee with "experience" had learned all sorts of bad habits and it was an excruciating experience training him, trying to get him to unlearn all of the reasons he was unemployed to begin with. The other one was a quick learner, eager to learn more, and was doing a bang-up job providing data entry. After 6 months, I could not take it any longer and made the heart wrenching decision to let the experienced Trainee go. My data entry protégé was more than ready to hit the ground running!

The lesson was learned. I started to realize what type of Trainee I wanted to look for and also started to realize the sequence of training it took to be successful. All of those years of failure were not wasted time after all because those mistakes provided me with time to figure it out. And over the past 5 years I have!

It took me seven years and countless mistakes to have 1 employee to show for it, but now over the past five years—I have 10 employees! All trained in-house. And not only that, but they are billing out $20,000, $30,000, and sometimes $40,000 per month! With all of the recent success training appraisers, my company made over $1,500,000 last year. I am making significantly more money than I was sprinting day to day, month to month, trying to do it all myself, and now I have significantly more time to do other things as well.

Now that I am an adult with kids of my own, I feel truly fortunate for my Dad and all of his hard work doing his best trying to provide a good life for me and the rest of our family. He helped pave the way for me and what I have today. But I also learned it does not have to be that way, grinding it out yourself each day. Last night I was making supplemental income while I slept, and was making more this morning while I played with my boys, while we ate breakfast together, and while I walked them to school. I could not help but smile as we walked down the street by that same well over a million-dollar house that was the first house I appraised and dreamed of living by when I started my business.

I have also created better lives for each of my Trainees who took advantage of my modern training system that I provided them. Some of them are Certified now and are Supervisors making supplemental income training Trainees, all as a part of my team. My "data entry protégé" is now the branch manager in Colorado with two Trainees of his own!

The amount of satisfaction I feel as an owner of a company helping others achieve their dreams while I achieve mine, rather than the lack of satisfaction I felt by myself as a sole proprietor, is invaluable.

What is the secret?
Training a Trainee can be hard, time consuming, and frustrating. Trust me, I know! But it does not have to be!

I wanted to give back and help other Supervisors so you do not have to make the same mistakes I did, so I created the website Appraiser Supervisor Resource Center. It includes the essentials to becoming a successful Supervisor!

The essentials will help you learn everything there is to know regarding finding, onboarding, training, and compensating your own All-Star Trainees. It will provide you with detailed knowledge and resources so you can implement the modern process that is going to save you from all of the years of frustration, anguish, and heartache I went through, and ultimately save you thousands of dollars of opportunity cost while you make supplemental income. And, it will also help give you back something we could all use, time! Take advantage of all of the essentials for a total cost that is less than what you earn with one appraisal:

• Blueprint to Success Training System, the modern training outline and timeline for Free!
• The Successful Supervisor Course, the updated 2-hour on-line course I created including my secrets in detail, only $195.
• On-line Appraisal Form Guides, guides for your Trainee covering the basics of each major form (1004, 1073, 1025, etc.) so you do not have to. Perfect during COVID! Reduced from $500 down to $95.

Check it out today. You and your future All-Star Trainee’s will be glad you did!

www.AppraiserSupervisor.com