How Are You Using Marshall And Swift?

[Stantheman]

Do you use it to extract site values, effective age adjustments, and replacement cost?

We do, we were recently told by a salesperson at Marshall Swift you can't incorporate their data in an excel spreadsheet because it violates the Licensing agreement.

Anyone heard of this?

 

[CANative]

http://www.corelogic.com/legal.aspx

Well f)(&%^ M&S now that CoreLogic got hold of them.

Use the free calculator at www.building-cost.net. Just as good for simple cost approach work.

 

[Dan Umstead]

http://www.corelogic.com/legal.aspx

Well f)(&%^ M&S now that CoreLogic got hold of them.

Use the free calculator at www.building-cost.net. Just as good for simple cost approach work.

I agree. We have been using building-cost.net for several years.

 

[Stantheman]

http://www.corelogic.com/legal.aspx

Well f)(&%^ M&S now that CoreLogic got hold of them.

Use the free calculator at www.building-cost.net. Just as good for simple cost approach work.

Awesome thank you so much for this site.

 

[NachoPerito]

Do you use it to extract site values, effective age adjustments, and replacement cost?

We do, we were recently told by a salesperson at Marshall Swift you can't incorporate their data in an excel spreadsheet because it violates the Licensing agreement.

Anyone heard of this?

That sounds absurd. Every cost approach in a commercial appraisal that I have seen puts M&S in an excel spreadsheet (embedded in word)

 

[Michigander]

If they start not allowing it in spreadsheets (how will they control that?) then they are poised to lose a lot of their business. Spreadsheets make using it for depreciated cost so very easy and clean as opposed to scribbling it all over paper which then gets lost. Of course, I haven't read their disclaimer, but I am scratching my head on this. Why on earth would they say it isn't okay if you have the subscription? Can't copy it into your workfile next?

 

[bnmappraisal]

http://www.corelogic.com/legal.aspx

Well f)(&%^ M&S now that CoreLogic got hold of them.

Use the free calculator at www.building-cost.net. Just as good for simple cost approach work.

do you name the website as the "Source of Cost Data" in the UAD/Cost Approach section ??? I guess it'd be the same as naming M&S, huh

Yes, thanks CAN for the link

 

[Randolph Kinney]

Do you use it to extract site values, effective age adjustments, and replacement cost?

We do, we were recently told by a salesperson at Marshall Swift you can't incorporate their data in an excel spreadsheet because it violates the Licensing agreement.

Anyone heard of this?

I use building-cost.net and I am evalutating dwellingcost.com. M&S increased their price for the residential cost manual by 10%+ subscription.

 

[CANative]

do you name the website as the "Source of Cost Data" in the UAD/Cost Approach section ??? I guess it'd be the same as naming M&S, huh

Yes, thanks CAN for the link

I do.

 

[Pilgrum]

http://www.corelogic.com/legal.aspx

Well f)(&%^ M&S now that CoreLogic got hold of them.

Use the free calculator at www.building-cost.net. Just as good for simple cost approach work.

I agree. M/S has always been too proud of their product.
I use the Craftsman Guide (www.building-cost.net.) but I buy the program. Still a long sight cheaper than M/S.
Nothing says you must use M/S. It only says that your work is 'reproducible'.