Alamode & Their UAD 3.6 Form Is A Disaster

[OSU Beavers]

I am already taking 7+ hours to write a full 1004 report which contains 40-50 pages of all the show your work BS that is now required.

 

[Alsie35]

I am already taking 7+ hours to write a full 1004 report which contains 40-50 pages of all the show your work BS that is now required.

Drop em like a hot potato (the 3.6 Abominatiom'. Let them stew in their own filth when no one will do this crap.

Unless your clients double your fee, this is a losing business proposition.

 

[RSW]

Well, I am impressed. I was finally able to finish a UAD 3.6 report today. Photos, maps, graphs, commentary, sales grid, and more. I was able to save it, sign it, and print to PDF. The E&O checker still doesn't work. There are a lot of fields that I have no clue what they want there. Alamode must have fixed some things in the last update.

 

[OSU Beavers]

Well, I am impressed. I was finally able to finish a UAD 3.6 report today. Photos, maps, graphs, commentary, sales grid, and more. I was able to save it, sign it, and print to PDF. The E&O checker still doesn't work. There are a lot of fields that I have no clue what they want there. Alamode must have fixed some things in the last update.

How was your fee compared to 2.6?

Did you use a mobile device for your inspection?

 

[RSW]

It was a sample appraisal on my own home.

 

[glenn walker]

I think it will end up as cloud based and that eliminates a lot of the individual users problems with hardware and software.

I also believe many using old operating system's will be forced to buy newer faster computers.

 

[cashcatz]

I also believe many using old operating system's will be forced to buy newer faster computers.

I mean, that's not just an appraiser issue. Professionals use professional tools, and that includes an up to date performant modern computer.

 

[Surf Cat]

I mean, that's not just an appraiser issue. Professionals use professional tools, and that includes an up to date performant modern computer.

Can't get up to date, modern tools without up to date modern pay.....is appraising really a "profession" when they can't dictate or guide that? Talking AMC work...

 

[Sadie]

I've been playing around with the UAD 3.6 form in Wintotal for several days. I've spent well over 20 + hours with it so far. That does not count the time I took the 7 hour class, watched the Fannie Mae video, and a few others as well. I know Alamode just wanted to put this out there for us to get used to it and that it is not finished. There are soooooo many bugs in what they already have that I lost count. I really don't see how they will be ready for the launch date with all that needs to be fixed. I really like to embrace technology, but this is just too much.

ACI is farther behind than Total, so there is that.

 

[Sadie]

RSW — file corruption on save is a bad sign. That usually means the underlying data format is fighting the form
layer — exactly the kind of thing that happens when you bolt a new spec onto old architecture.

The photo lockup issue tracks too. UAD 3.6 requires significantly more photo documentation than 2.6, but if the
file format wasn't designed for that payload from the start, you get exactly what you're seeing.

November is ambitious for anyone retrofitting. The vendors who started from scratch with 3.6 as the foundation —
not layered on top of 2.6 — are going to have a significant advantage here.

Appreciate you putting in the time to document all this. That kind of testing is how the industry figures out
what actually works versus what just looks good in a demo.

You might want to rethink this:
The vendors who started from scratch with 3.6 as the foundation —
not layered on top of 2.6 — are going to have a significant advantage here.
ACI is a complete redo and they haven't even got GSE approval that I know of. They are having the same problem as Total with losing data, etc.
SFREP is up and running and they went simple. I think the problem is that both Total and ACI want all the bells and whistles before they have the very basics. I understand they want to be able to create programs that can adapt to industry changes down the road. But its too much to do in too little time.

This is not the GSEs for their cr@p specs on what they want and not giving guidance to anyone about how they want it implemented.