Welcome all.
On behalf of your ASA Personal Property Committee, I am pleased to introduce you to our new web site. It hardly seems like it was less than a year ago that we began work on the design and contents for the new site. We promise you that it will become an essential tool for communicating PP discipline news, events, policies and general information. You, our members, are our primary audience, but we have designed the site also to communicate with potential members and users of appraisal services. Those audiences are essential to us all, and include our appraisal clients, potential clients, and the legal, financial, and insurance communities.
I invite you to become familiar with the various sections of the site to locate what you need. The new site is a work in progress. When completed, the site’s many components will include calendars of events, links to educational and connoisseurship programs, helpful hints for appraisal practitioners and their clients, updates on appraisal-related legal issues, an archive of old professional articles and reference resources, and on-line presentation of our Personal Property Journal. We also will provide links to discipline-specific news for PP subgroups such as the automotive specialties appraisers. As we continue to tweak it, the site should become easier to navigate.
As you will see, there are links to information resources and to other areas of the ASA home site. We also have built in links to the universities that are partnering our educational programs. If you are considering trying a university-based POV course to add to your credentials, you can shop around, review the various instructors’ bios, and see when the various courses are offered. The website also will inform you of courses and seminars offered by other organizations with whom ASA has reaccreditation compatibility. Our goal is for you to know about all qualified appraisal resources for furthering your professional competency.
ASA’s requirements for PP reaccreditation will be posted on our site, in addition to the requirements and process for becoming an appraiser. This information will assist both you, the practicing appraiser, and potential appraisers. It will inform the general public about the stringent requirements for our credentialed appraisers and their appraisal reports. We are planning a “Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)” section on the site. The FAQ will focus on common issues and problems encountered by users of appraisal services and by appraisers.
As with the main ASA site, our PP site will have a Members-Only side, accessed by your ASA password. The Members-only side will provide specific information about PP Committee activities, special offerings, and major issues affecting our accredited professionals. The most current Personal Property Journal will be offered on the Members-only side for subscribers, with articles published as they are submitted. We will post IRS and USPAP changes and updates as they occur.
So please begin now to make the ASA Personal Property web site a regular stop on your computer – at least weekly. My thanks go to everyone who has worked on the new PP site, including the ASA HQ staff, our new PP Chairwoman Sharon Ring Rollins, and most particularly to IT specialist Sharon Freas. If you ever have questions about the site or site contents, or want to get information posted, contact our PP webmaster, Laurance Triplette.
I look forward to seeing you all in the near future at one of ASA's many seminars and courses. And if you haven't already, plan now to enroll in one of the upcoming USPAP classes designed by ASA specifically for PP and MTS specialists.
Best regards,
Sandie Tropper, Chair Emeritus, Personal Property Committee