3.6 and ACI

[Fnbpos]

I am going to try them all; but ACI gets first crack. When you have 10+ appraisers on staff, renewing with ACI would be the best business decision for me. At this point i can only conclude that they are way behind. How in the world can you create new software with no carry-over to other fields, no shortcuts, no templates. It makes absolutely no sense at all. No ability to customize anything, even down to the colors on the screen (hint, there is no color - all white all running together with a light gray/black font - hard to read - can't change it.) I just stared with SFREP - classic form filling - very similar to legacy ACI from early testing. This Bud-Light is brought to you by ACI - we can ruin it all, too.

 

[alebrewer]

Why not? 3.6 is all new, anyways. It's a great time to look at options. SFREP offers a very generous free period.

The only hesitancy I see that makes sense is procuring an offering that will also accommodate legacy 2.6 forms. Not sure about AIVRE and AutoMax, but I don't think they have 2.6 functionality. SFREP has the ability to translate XML into their native format I believe (so that you could upload an XML from ACI and SFREP could read it). Obviously ACI, Total, and Clickforms will be able to support both Mismo formats.

 

[chad hampton]

The profession is in trouble if we have to go to 1 provider for 1 form and 2nd provider for another. That really isn't feasible for most appraisers. And we still have no idea on fees. Both fees from the software provider and what the fees from the AMC will be. Many may just decide to pause all together than to start putting out a cumbersome form for what amounts to min wage.

Until the legacy providers put out a real working 3.6, then there will be no nov rollout.

 

[Alsie35]

One bright Rainbow from ACI today:

They confirmed that their desktop software will be available until the 2.6 UAD is retired.

Some were undoubtedly worried about the "legacy forms" ie 1004/2055 eventually being "migrated" to the ACI cloud Workbench, but that fear appears to have been alleviated with this announcement.

 

[TerryRohrer]

One bright Rainbow from ACI today:

They confirmed that their desktop software will be available until the 2.6 UAD is retired.

Some were undoubtedly worried about the "legacy forms" ie 1004/2055 eventually being "migrated" to the ACI cloud Workbench, but that fear appears to have been alleviated with this announcement.

Not sure that says much. "UAD 2.6 is scheduled to be officially retired on May 3, 2027."

 

[Alsie35]

Not sure that says much. "UAD 2.6 is scheduled to be officially retired on May 3, 2027."

For those of us using ACI, it means we can work right up until the retirement date of the UAD 2.6 system. (And we all know these deadlines MUST be getting kicked further out at this point due to the glacial pace of the new software adaptation by everyone. So that's not nothing to those of us who want nothing to do with the stress of trying to learn cloud tech).

 

[cashcatz]

It's not the vendors fault, it's that 3.6 was designed by a government committee of neck tie people instead of appraisers and tech people.

I just added 3.6 UAD MISMO XML export to Appraisal Inbox. It was quite the lift figuring out all the mappings and stuff. At least they provide a good testing schema to work against. Loads up in SFREP Appraise-It Pro pretty well and saves some typing. Haven't tried TOTAL - does anyone know if they can import the MISMO .zip?

 

[cashcatz]

Until the legacy providers put out a real working 3.6, then there will be no nov rollout.

They have, SFREP supports 3.6 and all the old forms.

 

[OSU Beavers]

I started with TOTAL in 1998, but it would not save attachments for some reason so I switched to ACI and put up with their horrible support for years. Who remembers backspacing more than a line in ACI only to have your report crash and get corrupted?

When the last UAD format became maditory in August 2011, I could not get any reports out using ACI which forced a switch back to TOTAL. I prefer not to switch again as I still have six years before I can retire, unless the Somalis have stolen all my Social Security by then.

 

[cashcatz]

I started with TOTAL in 1998, but it would not save attachments for some reason so I switched to ACI and put up with their horrible support for years. Who remembers backspacing more than a line in ACI only to have your report crash and get corrupted?

When the last UAD format became maditory in August 2011, I could not get any reports out using ACI which forced a switch back to TOTAL. I prefer not to switch again as I still have six years before I can retire, unless the Somalis have stolen all my Social Security by then.

It's a new form, basically everyone is "switching" even if they stay with the same provider. Might as well try what else is out there, SFREP is free the first 6 months.