Volume 41 - Issue 36 - September 8, 2022
State of Kansas
Real Estate Appraisal Board
Permanent Administrative Regulation
Article 4.—QUALIFICATIONS CRITERIA—CERTIFIED RESIDENTIAL APPRAISER CLASSIFICATION
117-4-1. Residential classification; education requirements. (a) Each applicant shall meet one of the following requirements:
(1) Have a bachelor’s degree or higher from an accredited four-year college or university;
(2) have an associate’s degree in a field of study related to one of the following:
(A) Business administration;
(B) accounting;
(C) finance;
(D) economics; or
(E) real estate;
(3) successfully complete 30 semester hours of college-level courses in the following subjects, with the hours specified:
(A) English composition (three semester hours);
(B) microeconomics (three semester hours);
(C) macroeconomics (three semester hours);
(D) finance (three semester hours);
(E) algebra, geometry, or higher mathematics (three semester hours);
(F) statistics (three semester hours);
(G) computer science (three semester hours);
(H) business or real estate law (three semester hours); and
(I) two elective courses in any of the following subjects:
(i) Accounting (three semester hours);
(ii) geography (three semester hours);
(iii) agricultural economics (three semester hours);
(iv) business management (three semester hours); or
(v) real estate (three semester hours);
(4) successfully complete at least 30 semester hours of college-level examination program (CLEP) examinations in the following subjects:
(A) College algebra (three semester hours);
(B) college composition (six semester hours);
(C) college composition modular (three semester hours);
(D) college mathematics (six semester hours);
(E) principles of macroeconomics (three semester hours);
(F) principles of microeconomics (three semester hours);
(G) introductory business law (three semester hours); and
(H) information systems (three semester hours); or
(5) successfully complete any combination of paragraphs (a)(3) and (4) that ensures coverage of all topics and the associated hours listed in those paragraphs.
(b) Each applicant shall meet the following requirements:
(1) Have received credit for 200 classroom hours in the following subjects, as specified:
(A) 30 classroom hours in basic appraisal principles;
(B) 30 classroom hours in basic appraisal procedures;
(C) 15 classroom hours in the national uniform standards of professional appraisal practice course or its equivalent;
(D) 15 classroom hours in residential market analysis and highest and best use;
(E) 15 classroom hours in the residential appraiser site valuation and cost approach;
(F) 30 classroom hours in residential sales comparison and income approaches;
(G) 15 classroom hours in residential report writing and case studies;
(H) 15 classroom hours in statistics, modeling, and finance;
(I) 15 classroom hours in advanced residential applications and case studies; and
(J) 20 classroom hours in appraisal subject matter electives, which may include hours over the minimum specified in paragraph (b)(1); and
(2) provide evidence, satisfactory to the board, of one of the following:
(A) Successful completion of courses approved by the board as specified in paragraph (b)(1); or
(B) successful completion of courses not approved by the board, with evidence that the education covered all of the requirements specified in paragraph (b)(1).
(c) Credit toward the education requirements specified in paragraph (b)(1) may also be obtained by completing a degree in real estate from an accredited degree-granting college or university approved by the association to advance collegiate schools of business or a regional or national accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. secretary of education if the college or university has had its curriculum reviewed and approved by the appraiser qualifications board (AQB).
(d) Classroom hours may be obtained only if both of the following conditions are met:
(1) The length of the educational offering is at least 15 classroom hours.
(2) The applicant successfully completes an approved closed-book examination pertinent to that educational offering.
(e) Any appraiser holding a valid state license as a real property appraiser may meet the educational requirements for the certified residential classification by performing the following:
(1)(A) Satisfying the college-level educational requirements as specified in subsection (a); or
(B) having a state license for at least five years immediately preceding the date of application if there has been no record of any adverse, final, and non-appealable disciplinary action affecting the state licensed appraiser’s legal eligibility to engage in appraisal practice within the five years immediately preceding the date of application for a certified residential credential; and
(2) completing an additional 50 hours of classroom or distance education, or both, in the following subjects:
(A) 15 hours of statistics, modeling, and finance;
(B) 15 hours of advanced residential applications and case studies; and
(C) 20 hours of appraisal subject matter electives.
(f) The 200 classroom hours specified in paragraph (b)(1) may include a portion of the 150 classroom hours required for the licensed classification as required by K.A.R. 117-2-1.
(g) A distance education course may be deemed to meet the classroom hour requirement specified in paragraph (b)(1) if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) The course provides an environment in which the student has verbal or written communication with the instructor.
(2) The sponsor obtains course content approval from any of the following:
(A) The appraiser qualifications board;
(B) an appraiser licensing or certifying agency in this or any other state; or
(C) an accredited college, community college, or university that offers distance education programs and is approved or accredited by the commission on colleges, a regional or national accreditation association, or an accrediting agency that is recognized by the U.S. secretary of education. Each non-academic credit college course provided by a college shall be approved by the appraiser qualifications board or the appraiser licensing or certifying agency in this or any other state.
(3) The course design and delivery are approved by one of the following sources:
(A) The appraiser qualifications board;
(B) a college that qualifies for course content approval as specified in paragraph (g)(2)(C) and awards academic credit for the distance education course; or
(C) a college that qualifies for course content approval as specified in paragraph (g)(2)(C) with a distance education delivery program that includes a delivery system incorporating interactivity.
(h) Each distance education course intended for use as qualifying education shall include a written examination proctored by an official approved by the college or university or by the sponsor.
(i) Any applicant who has completed two or more courses generally comparable in content, meaning topics covered, may receive credit only for the longest of the comparable courses completed. The national uniform standards of professional appraisal practice (USPAP) course taken in different years shall not be considered repetitive. (Authorized by and implementing K.S.A. 58-4109; effective Jan. 21, 1991; amended, T-117-6-10-91, June 10, 1991; amended Aug. 5, 1991; amended May 24, 1993; amended Jan. 1, 1994; amended Jan. 9, 1998; amended March 26, 1999; amended May 23, 2003; amended Jan. 1, 2008; amended July 10, 2009; amended April 16, 2010; amended Jan. 1, 2015; amended June 17, 2016; amended Nov. 30, 2018; amended Sept. 23, 2022.)
Sally L. Pritchett
Executive Director
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