Willem: With all due respect, the designation of RPT is not sufficient to be an appraiser except for, perhaps, some technical purpose regarding qualifications in the eyes of the legal system which may be all you're saying, but if so, then it in insufficient and non-germane to the issue. There are many, many young RPTs, whom I just love to death for becoming so, who are not qualified to appraise because they simply haven't had the experience in the "market-place", nor of the intricacies of the law and tax consequences, properly to bring to bear the results of that experience. Julia herself admits as much, that she's been doing technical work for several years, but does not claim to be an appraiser. To hold out the carrot to aspiring RPT's that they will, simply by becoming RPT's, have the qualification to appraise is nonsense. There are many non-RPT's out there who have years and years of experience whom I would call on in an instant before I would call someone to do an appraisal simply because they have the designation after their name and the other doesn't. So, no, not enough said. Paul -----Original Message----- From: Willem Blees <wimblees at aol.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:23 pm Subject: Appraising follow up I just got my October Journal, and read the appraising article. A couple of weeks ago there was some talk about this, but?since the series of questions appeared on Pianotech before I joined, I didn't get a chance to add my 2 cents worth. ? The only thing I wanted to add, which?I mentioned in my Appraisal class at the convention, has to do with the qualifications of a piano appraiser. The number one qualification, in opinion, would be an RPT member of the PTG.?There is no other classification in any other profession that comes close to knowing more about the condition of a piano than an RPT. The IRS, much less a court of law,?has no other standard to measure our ability against. I'm not saying there?aren't other people who?can do an appraisal, but an RPT is the only one with credentials. ? 'noug said.? ? Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Honolulu, HI Author of The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071021/24aa3bd6/attachment.html
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