New URAR Demo

[J Grant]

I don't understand why a mobile 3.6 is going to be better. So you're in the house standing, or sitting, for 2 hours doing the same check boxes as if you were sitting at home. Sorry, all my little urban row homes look alike, i rarely write anything but the sketch on my clip board. You really think you can inspect the house in the order of those check boxes. I bet it doesn't follow you're inspection route. You will be all over the place while doing it, bouncing back and forth. Remember, it's not the form anymore that you will see. It's page after page with whatever check boxes.

Nobody here has any idea of it's mobile functionality to the appraisers life time of walking thru the house routine. And the comps, that a different story about hell.

That's what I always felt. Perhaps it adds ten minutes to add my written comment to the typed report, but it's worth it to me to work in my home office, where it is more comfortable. And I can think when entering data- and I'd rather not linger longer than needed in these houses for many reasons


Seems the main advanage is the ipad or device can snap photos and place them automatically - that might be worth it . Lidar measure in a ipad might be worth it. The data entry, imo, no. I can print out the template, check boxes, and take photos for reference of notes.

 

[Bobby Bucks]

II bet it doesn't follow your inspection route. You will be all over the place while doing it, bouncing back and forth. Remember, it's not the form anymore that you will see. It's page after page with whatever check boxes.

Nobody here has any idea of it's mobile functionality to the appraisers life time of walking thru the house routine.

I can see it now, a 3 story with a full basement turning into a stair-climb marathon.

 

[Airstream]

I don't understand why a mobile 3.6 is going to be better. So you're in the house standing, or sitting, for 2 hours doing the same check boxes as if you were sitting at home. Sorry, all my little urban row homes look alike, i rarely write anything but the sketch on my clip board. You really think you can inspect the house in the order of those check boxes. I bet it doesn't follow you're inspection route. You will be all over the place while doing it, bouncing back and forth. Remember, it's not the form anymore that you will see. It's page after page with whatever check boxes.

Nobody here has any idea of it's mobile functionality to the appraisers life time of walking thru the house routine. And the comps, that a different story about hell.

Have you ever used the mobile app? I have for 20 years. And it is nothing like you state.

 

[Airstream]

That's what I always felt. Perhaps it adds ten minutes to add my written comment to the typed report, but it's worth it to me to work in my home office, where it is more comfortable. And I can think when entering data- and I'd rather not linger longer than needed in these houses for many reasons


Seems the main advanage is the ipad or device can snap photos and place them automatically - that might be worth it . Lidar measure in a ipad might be worth it. The data entry, imo, no. I can print out the template, check boxes, and take photos for reference of notes.

You don’t have to write anything. You can dictate with your voice. If I have a house with a lot of deficiencies Again I have used this for 20 years. It is much quicker. It is amazing to me how people will make a judgment about an app that they have never used. Good luck on paper and pencil when you have to remember all the drop downs. Good luck on taking photos of individual rooms and then having to take notes on individual rooms. All of that is already baked in the mobile app. It is very easy and very intuitive to use. Again I have used it for 20 years and I have done the paper pencil routine. And the mobile app is much easier to use. But then again I don’t do cookie cutter houses. Often my drawings are very complex and if I didn’t have a drawing tool in the field, I’d have no idea what I was doing When I got back to the office. I have drawn houses wher there wasn’t a square angle in the entire house. You can’t do that on paper and pencil in the field.

Again, I’ve been doing this with the app for 20 years. My inspection time before and after I was using paper and pencil isn’t any longer. And when I get back to the office, it’s way shorter. I do not have to rewrite notes. I do not have to redo the sketch. I do not have to figure out where the pictures are going. I sync the report to the notes and pictures away I go.

 

[Tom D]

I can see it now, a 3 story with a full basement turning into a stair-climb marathon.

Get that copywrite, 'cardio appraising' by bobby bucks. And i do a lot of 3 story homes w/basement. Yea, not more dieting, just cardio burn them off. House with stair lifts get higher value.
Rancher w/no basement, max out value.

You don’t have to write anything. You can dictate with you voice. Again I have used this for 20 years. It is much quicker.

Oh, so you're not going to use the new check box uad 3.6 form. I bet it will have a voice checkbox recognition thingy that will find the needed 1,000th checkbox for you to answer at that moment of where you're in your inspection. You will 1st have to memorize 1,000 check box questions to voice speak the exact place to find it. Not that that will take less time than just sitting at your desk, doing it from the scratch. I don't know, but hope can keep you alive. There is basically no dictating form in uad3.6, just check boxing to other checkboxes on the same question.

But, let me know if you do it, i'm not the expert in that field. Still a cave man appraiser. I will post your high praises if you convince me.

 

[J Grant]

I would be willing to try the app at some point, or at least watch videos of it and decide.

Imo the important thing to remember is that whether one uses a mobile app or a paper/write method, the end result is teh same - an appraisal that gets communicated as a report. A reviewer, buyer, owner, or client is not going to care if the appraiser used an app or not. They are going to care about the value and the support for the value.

 

[Airstream]

Get that copywrite, 'cardio appraising' by bobby bucks. And i do a lot of 3 story homes w/basement. Yea, not more dieting, just cardio burn them off. House with stair lifts get higher value.
Rancher w/no basement, max out value.


Oh, so you're not going to use the new check box uad 3.6 form. I bet it will have a voice checkbox recognition thingy that will find the needed 1,000th checkbox for you to answer at that moment of where you're in your inspection. You will 1st have to memorize 1,000 check box questions to voice speak the exact place to find it. Not that that will take less time than just sitting at your desk, doing it from the scratch. I don't know, but hope can keep you alive. There is basically no dictating form in uad3.6, just check boxing to other checkboxes on the same question.

But, let me know if you do it, i'm not the expert in that field. Still a cave man appraiser. I will post your high praises if you convince me.

You caveman appraisers are gonna really hate this form. Again I’ve been using this app for over 20 years. And I can tell you from experience it saves time. But that’s OK you cave man appraisers good luck. Again, I ask you the question have you ever used the the app? If you haven’t, you have absolutely no basis of making a judgment. I have used paper and pencil. And I have used the app. And there is no comparison as to speed. in this new form, the pulldown menus will be easy to use in the field. And if you have to take more extensive notes, that’s where the voice comes in. You can simply dictate what you need to say. And then when you get back to the office, you are done and you can get right to work after you sync it into the report. Good luck trying to find all those places where the pictures have to go on the new report. Good luck trying to find all those pictures on your cameras. I don’t have to find any pictures. I don’t use a camera. I just simply use a phone. and then the photos, the sketch, and the notes on each room that are important for the report are synced into the report. It takes me five minutes in my office. And I spend no longer doing the inspection than I did when I use paper and pencil. But hey, OK that’s all right. You caveman continue to do the same thing over and over. Good luck with that.

 

[Airstream]

I would be willing to try the app at some point, or at least watch videos of it and decide.

Imo the important thing to remember is that whether one uses a mobile app or a paper/write method, the end result is teh same - an appraisal that gets communicated as a report. A reviewer, buyer, owner, or client is not going to care if the appraiser used an app or not. They are going to care about the value and the support for the value.

Of course, the final report is going look the same. That’s not the point. The point is it will be more seamless to do the inspection. You don’t have to remember all the pull downs. You don’t have to find the pictures to stick in the report. You don’t have to redo the sketch. Everything is pretty much done in the field. Ever done a sketch in the field and then when you get back to the office, the walls don’t meet up? Doesn’t happen when you sketch it in the field. If something isn’t right, you know right away. And that is especially true for complex houses with all kinds of angles, which I do on a regular basis. then with the app, I simply mark in the sketch where the living room is. Take a picture of the living room. Take notes on the living room if there’s anything important that I need to remember. Then I do that room by room. Then when I get back to the office, all I have to do is sync the report into my computer and all the pictures are organized exactly as they should be. And the sketch is there as it should be. And all the extensive notes that I need are in my work file and I can just copy and paste them in the report if I need to. And another nice point is that I don’t have a paper work file that I have to keep in big bulky cabinets. My work files are completely digital.

 

[Tom D]

Ugh, me no like Airstream. Me like my stone table. Any who, all my urban row homes appraisals are clones of each other. Usually, only have the sketch on my clip board. My row house template is 80% filled in with little to change. I'm giving away my big urban easy appraising life secretes. So i never had the need to fill in, when already filled in before i started. Yes, yes, the hard life of cave man appraising. So, in reality me not know the better mobile side of your areas, is helping to be more productive. I solved that issue by living in a big urban city. Seen 2 row homes, seen them all.

 

[Airstream]

Ugh, me no like Airstream. Me like my stone table. Any who, all my urban row homes appraisals are clones of each other. Usually, only have the sketch on my clip board. My row house template is 80% filled in with little to change. I'm giving away my big urban easy appraising life secretes. So i never had the need to fill in, when already filled in before i started. Yes, yes, the hard life of cave man appraising. So, in reality me not know the better mobile side of your areas, is helping to be more productive. I solved that issue by living in a big urban city. Seen 2 row homes, seen them all.

I don’t do row homes. Frankly, in your neighborhood you’re gonna be the first one out of Business. You’ll be replaced by AI.