How to manage your money as an Independent Adjuster
Channel: Adjuster TV
Date: 2021-09-12

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- Disclaimer
- Questions from YouTube
- Bad cat adjuster jokes
- Steps to becoming a cat property adjuster
- What license should you get first? And what licenses should you get next?
- How state adjuster license reciprocity works
- How emergency state licenses work
- Hurricane forecasts
-What is the path to becoming a cat property adjuster that reduces dead ends 
- Setting proper expectations for transitioning into claims
- How Inspectors on Demand works
- Getting started in auto
- RUD
- How to make money while you're waiting for a cat deployment
- How to quit your day job after you've decided to become an IA
- What if a deployment is canceled and you just quit your day job
- How to be realistic about changing careers into independent adjusting
- How much should you have saved before you transition to independent adjusting
- The importance of being on the same page with your spouse or significant other during a career change
- Getting on rosters and which adjuster schools and certifications should you get
- What is the first call list and how do you get on it
- How IA firm carrier certifications and other trainings are actually informal job interviews
- State Farm certification
- Listen more than you talk
- Why you MUST network
- Protect your cat earnings
- Post deployment recovery and relaxation strategies
- Hire a CPA
- 1099 vs W2
- Tax advice that you should ignore
- Matt got audited by the IRS.. twice
- James looks at cars with tape all over them

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