Alamode price increase

[Doug in NC]

This is exactly why I quit using Total over 15 years ago. The issues that were there from the get-go were never fixed, but they are quick to add more bells and whistles. After three years, I switched to Clickforms, been with them ever since.

I used Clickforms many many years ago when I first started my own company. Simple to use and I don't recall ever having issues like I regularly experience with Alamode. I can understand software updates 1-2 times per year, but honestly it seems like AlaCorelogic is issuing them weekly and I rarely notice any differences after I've updated. The Corelogic takeover of Alamode has been disastrous in my opinion. Corelogic is likely far more interested in the data they can extract from appraisers than appealing to the appraisers they are expected to serve.

 

[Fargo1]

... I can understand software updates 1-2 times per year, but honestly it seems like AlaCorelogic is issuing them weekly and I rarely notice any differences after I've updated. The Corelogic takeover of Alamode has been disastrous in my opinion

I see comments all the time on this forum about how Corelogic is messing up the Total software and how it used to be so much better. I have only been with Total for about 4 years, two with alamode and 2 with Corelogic. Honestly, I can't tell the difference between owners in regards to software updates. I think Corelogic has been very faithful to the procedures and updates instituted by alamode. Even when alamode owned Total it was always being updated and features were always addeded. Yet nothing ever seemed to function better. The software has always been resource heavy and slow to respond. Full of bugs that hinder efficient work flow. In this regard, nothing has changed. The only thing that has changed is peoples perception.

Mr. Biggers had the whole forum hoodwinked. Everyone thought he was the one man looking out for the appraiser and that his software was the best available. Now that he has sold out and is no longer promoting Total on the forums, people are actually seeing the software for exactly what it is. It never was the awesome software that everyone remembers. Its always been the slow, clumsy, buggy software that it is now. Your just seeing things for the first time with unbiased eyes. (Or possibly biased in the other direction due to ownership.) The selling point of Total has always been lots of features for the cheapest starting price. Its always been about the latest shinny thing. Its never been about the highest quality of software.

Corelogic is likely far more interested in the data they can extract from appraisers than appealing to the appraisers they are expected to serve.

On this I agree completely. As much as the actual software has issues, the biggest reason to dump Total is because of CoreLogic. They serve the lender and their own self interest. Their interest is in gathering data and providing lenders with the cheapest and fastest appraisal. For now that means supporting the appraisal software, but the second they can provide that service to lenders with AVM's or some sort of Artificial Intelligence, they will drop the appraiser like a bad habit and provide the lender with the cheaper and faster option. They have no interest in loyalty to appraisers or the appraisal profession. We are simply a means to an end. We provide the data for their services.

 

[Doug in NC]

the biggest reason to dump Total is because of CoreLogic. They serve the lender and their own self interest. Their interest is in gathering data and providing lenders with the cheapest and fastest appraisal. For now that means supporting the appraisal software, but the second they can provide that service to lenders with AVM's or some sort of Artificial Intelligence, they will drop the appraiser like a bad habit and provide the lender with the cheaper and faster option. They have no interest in loyalty to appraisers or the appraisal profession. We are simply a means to an end. We provide the data for their services.

Yeah, but they will have to continue providing the software to appraisers so they can keep harvesting appraisers' data. Reminds me of Hewlett Packard selling cheap printers so they can milk consumers on premium-priced ink cartridges. I remember the days when software updates only came about once a year. No doubt Alamode continually makes software updates to justify the annual subscription fee.

 

[TJSum]

The yearly subscription fee used to also include a web site, no longer, so even if the price stays the same, the true cost does not.

 

[Carnivore]

They sell your data to AVMs
and increase the cost to you, for giving them your data to sell, and they keep all the money?

They don't sell your data to an AVM. They populate their own AVM.

That's why i don't participate in Vault. None the less they do read your appraisal report as you enter comparable. I got one auto-filled one time on comparable I selected ...how did they know I had added that comparable address.; Yep, they are reading your report especially when you get a Subject/comp map. You can see where that is valuable to them because you unwittingly revealed a relationship of your subject to that comparable. Helps their AVM.

Soon as i go to Windows 10, i am using a different software provider. This will happen sometime this year.