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Is a person with a trainning school certificate and maybe 1 storm an adjuster? When does a wantabe become an adjuster?

For whatever it is worth I was once told on this website that I would never be an adjuster. For all I know they might have been right. I still do things wrong.

Are the vendors willing to hire newly licensed adjusters? I have just acquired my adjuster license and have been state farm certified to do auto adjusting is there more that can be done to assure that I am well-qualified as well as not get overwhelmed while deployed?

I have no problem handling million dollar property claims but I SUCK at auto.... I tried 3 of them and royally screwed them up. My hat goes off to good auto adjusters.

Harold, Contact the vendors that handle auto cats and submit a resume. Jump through their hoops and you'll land on a roster.

Lots of experienced adjusters looking for work today. The new people will be in back of the long line, but keep on plugging. Any thing like practice you can do when you have time will help you make it, if you get called out. You are normally evaluated in your first 7 days and it sticks with you. Remember the people who are supposed to get these files through will know how much you can MAKE them, and you have to show it right at the start.

You should not have to be at a house with lots of roof and interior damage more than about 20-30 min. to take all the notes, measurements , xcopes, photos and then to the next one, do six a day ever day with good scopes, photos-descriptions-reports and you will be on your way until that storm runs out. It may be next morth or 2 years later before you go out again...... WOW waiting on weather.

Photo, diagram, measure, and scope the interior damage of 5 or 6 rooms, then go set up a ladder to go on the roof; photo, diagram, measure, and scope the roof; then go back inside to explain the damage/coverage to the insured, answer any questions the insured has, put your ladder away, and go to the next one. Takes me a lot longer than 20-30 minutes.

Oh, Ray, about that six a day every day, they need to be on an appointment basis. Don't be late!

Ol' Ghost

And don't be early. Take your time, look at the hailstones they saved in the freezer, empathize with their problem, pet the puppy, kiss the baby, and get all the upside down serial numbers on the $400 grill with a pimple dimple in the cover. Don't forget to negotiate a buy back for the grill and the metal storage building with two pimple dimples. Count the hail broken pickets of ten foot of fence, then extrapolate that over 78 foot on that side, then do the other side and back (diagram the play fort)...and measurements. Get an overview of each screen that is damaged...and a close up. Document and quantify the steel gutter from the aluminum and plastic...and the same for the downspouts. You'll be moving fast, but don't let that blur your image. If the sun is bright take a couple of shots from different directions. Do three test squares in case the first two slopes are less than 50%. Send in your specialty roof review early, so it won't hold up your claim. With the new fee schedules down and gas prices up, five a day will pay your expenses. Six a day should make you $60,000 to $100,00 per month as they say on the internet...and the bar...right?