For $30 a month Synapse is great for getting idiot AMC checklist reviewers off your back about proving your adjustments. What I do is get an MLS CSV output file of ALL sales in my extended market area over the past two year and drop the file into group one for number crunching. Then narrow the sales down to just the subject's market area over the past year, maybe two if it is and small area and drop the file into group two. Finally I make a CSV file of just the comps I would use against the subject on my grid and drop the file into group three. The resulting suggested adjustment ranges are usually large enough to drive a truck through, so I need to narrow them down and usually the number I pick in the middle is what I was going to use anyways, but now I have some fancy language for my narrative and a nice one page pdf to put in my report which keeps the idiot AMC checklist reviewers from going wild with stips. If anyone has a better way to use Synapse then please share.
Of course now AMCs are using AI to review our reports so we get more stupid auto generated stips such as:
A commercial / non residential property was detected within close proximity of the subject. Please ensure all external influences have been reported and adjusted for accordingly, if warranted. If current comparables do not share a similar external influence, then please revisit search parameters to provide a comparable with similar influence to support opinions of marketability or value impacts.
I already said in the report that it is a small town of 1500 people, the subject and all comps are in the same neighborhood with similar locations. The town is literately 10 blocks by 10 blocks! EVERYTHING is within close proximity of commercial / non residential property. A real person who isn't an idiot could read the sentence I wrote on the first line under the market grid, look at the maps I provided and pass the report. But Nooooo, now I have to deal with this AI BS making my life sooooo much easier!
