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Alamode & Their UAD 3.6 Form Is A Disaster

Airstream said:
Well if that’s the case it would be unfortunate. But maybe they can’t get around it. I looked at the SFREP and the Inspect a Lot app for IPAD that integrates with it. No thank you. The Inspect a Lot sketch program isn’t nearly as good as Total. You can only do rise and run on the sketch. Good luck with that on some of these designer homes. I use the angle feature all the time, since I often do high end homes that are frankly ridiculous. One home had no 90 degree angles. If I didn’t have the angle option I would never have been able to do it. I guess I will just have to trust alamode gets there act together. I feel like right now everything is just really in beta stage.
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I hate oblique angles, not uncommon in the large custom houses. I swear architects get an extra $1000+ for each oblique angle they draw into their blueprints... just so it looks so custom & 'special' (PITA, & extra expensive to build that wacko s**t).
 
Question for Total users: can you import a UAD 3.6 XML or .zip?
 
cashcatz said:
Question for Total users: can you import a UAD 3.6 XML or .zip?
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Not yet. I can't even get my report to pass the E&O checker. It won't even start running.
 
RSW said:
Not yet. I can't even get my report to pass the E&O checker. It won't even start running.
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I wish these software providers would simply be honest and say the program is still in beta form. Alamode has way oversold their progress.
 
I've been getting questions from AMCs, many I haven't heard from for YEARS, "Are you 3.1 qualified?" I'm licensed. I'm qualified to do/learn what I need to in order to fill out the un-form form. The 3.1 is not a license, not required for my license, it's just a PITA some non-appraisers thought up for us to do, since there's not enough jibberish in the current "short reports" (34 pp or whatever) and our time is worth nothing anyhow, right?

Do I CHOOSE to do the 3.1? Not for AMC pay, that's for darned sure. I will likely do what I need to do to maintain relationships with my direct lenders who have paid me well. The quote-mongering AMCs that require me to 'bid' on work...? Nope. Done with that. There is only just so much abuse I will take, and the quote/bid stuff, check-check-checking to see if I've been given the 'opportunity' to 'quote' on an appraisal order, then they announce the bidding is 'closed'; It is such a huge waste of time, and a clear indicator of being a non-valued 'vendor'... NOT a professional, with years of analysis experience, and sound judgment. Might as well join the guys standing around at Home Depot waiting for someone to wave you over to make whatever little money they decide is the least you'll settle for. It's just too d@mn aggravating.

So when the AMCs want to know if I'm 'qualified' or 'certified' to do the 3.1, I never respond. They SHOULD be asking: "Would you do the 3.1 for a minimum NET fee of $600? or $700? or $800?" And don't ask for MY FEE, and then take $10-$15-$25 etc for tech fee. My fee is MY FEE. I'm not fooled by AMCs agreeing to my fee less THEIR FEE! Nope! It's a tiresome game.
 
Coincidentally, while doing an appraisal inspection today, the lady said she had taken some appraisal classes in the past, thinking she could do that while getting established in her career, but she said she never pursued doing appraisals. So I asked her what she does; she's a teacher. I told her she was smart, and that appraising as a career has become less and less rewarding. Then I told her about the coming 3.1 where they want to know stuff like height of the ceilings, and photos might be monetized in a database where entities can pay to get access to the photos of her daughter's bedroom, her kitchen, the art and personal property in her home, layout of the yard etc, and also it would be natural for the assessor's office to take an interest in any additions or improvement that they might want to extract an assessment tax on. Her eyes popped wide open and said that would be an invasion of her privacy by entities that did not have to know that stuff just because she was trying to refinance her house. I suggested she contact her Congressman, and that the GSE's are insisting that will be in effect in a few months time.

Without exception, whenever I tell ppl that this new PITA will take maybe 2 hours longer to inspect their property, and that their personal living space photos may be available online at some point, every one of them was aghast! I didn't even mention the likely increase of the cost of appraisals to cover that nonsense.
 
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