D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 17, r. 17-2304
There is no experience requirement for the Appraisal Trainee classification.
Applicants for the Licensed Real Property Appraiser classification shall have one thousand (1000) hours of appraisal experience obtained in no fewer than six (6) months of appraisal work.
Applicants for the Certified Residential Real Property Appraiser classification shall have fifteen hundred (1500) hours of appraisal experience obtained in no fewer than twelve (12) months of appraisal work.
Applicants for the Certified General Real Property Appraiser classification shall have three thousand (3000) hours of appraisal experience obtained in no fewer than eighteen (18) months of appraisal work.
The Board may treat an applicant's hours of appraisal experience as cumulative when applied by the applicant toward achieving the necessary hours of appraisal experience for each classification.
For the Certified General Real Property Appraiser classification, fifty percent (50%) or one thousand five hundred (1,500) hours of the required three thousand (3,000) hours experience shall be in appraising non-residential real property.
Experience shall be supported by adequate written appraisal reports or file memoranda that shall be made available to the Board upon request.
The property address for each appraisal assignment shall be identified in the experience log.
An hour of experience means verifiable time spent actively engaging in tasks that are in accordance with acceptable appraisal practice. Qualifying tasks may include activities such as data gathering, property inspection, analysis, report writing, or any other activity approved by the Appraisal Qualifications Board. Minimum standards for reports are those standards that are prescribed in Standard 2 of the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice in the edition in effect at the time of the reports' preparation.
Except as provided in this section, acceptable appraisal practice for experience credit includes appraisal, review appraisals, real estate appraisal consulting, and mass appraisal activities that comply with USPAP and conforms to USPAP Standards 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6, where the appraiser demonstrates proficiency in appraisal principles, methodology, procedures, and reporting conclusions.
Appraisal experience shall be verifiable and shall be reported to the Board on a form provided by the Board. A completed form shall include the following information;
The following experience credit shall be given for work performed in accordance with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice:
Separate appraisal logs shall be maintained for each supervising appraiser if applicable.
There is no maximum time limit during which experience may be obtained.
Effective January 1, 2008, work experience must be USPAP compliant and have been earned on or after January 30, 1989.
Applicants may demonstrate completion of the appraisal experience requirements of this section by obtaining a valid certificate of completion from a Practical Applications of Real Estate Appraisal ("PAREA") program approved by the Appraisal Qualifications Board ("AQB"), subject to the limits set forth in § 2304.18.
Applicants who receive a valid certificate of completion from an AQB-approved PAREA program shall be deemed to have obtained the number of hours of appraisal experience approved by AQB for the program.
The number of hours of prelicensure appraisal experience obtained through a PAREA program by an applicant that may be credited toward the prelicensure appraisal experience requirements set forth in this section shall be limited as follows:
D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 17, r. 17-2304