Alamode & Their UAD 3.6 Form Is A Disaster

[Non Sequitur]

For me it is the sketch that is the important part. On the old form I could do the sketch, put in the rooms, hit the rooms and take the necessary information down and shoot the photos.

From what I've seen it isn't going to flow like that. Long and short of it the sketch will be the sketch not much more (if I'm misinterpreting this please correct me). In mobile you will use section buttons for the photos, in those sections it will have photo option and fields for the description (Q, C, etc.) and you can add additional photos with a description. From what I see the reason they are going this way is because of the additional commentary required for every room and the exterior (condition, quality, ceiling heights, etc.), it's not just as simple as dropping a BR photo into the sketch.

 

[Surf Cat]

If I was an ACI user I would be looking at SFREP. In fact if alamode doesn’t get its act together I might be as well.

The thing is, for the appraisers that not only do GSE work but private, hard money, attorney type stuff..... you still need the established forms. They most likely don't care about the 3.6.

Which company is going to offer both the 3.6 as well as the older forms for clients that still are fine with them?

I certainly don't want to be paying for two subscriptions.

 

[Airstream]

From what I've seen it isn't going to flow like that. Long and short of it the sketch will be the sketch not much more (if I'm misinterpreting this please correct me). In mobile you will use section buttons for the photos, in those sections it will have photo option and fields for the description (Q, C, etc.) and you can add additional photos with a description. From what I see the reason they are going this way is because of the additional commentary required for every room and the exterior (condition, quality, ceiling heights, etc.), it's not just as simple as dropping a BR photo into the sketch.

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.

 

[TerryRohrer]

The thing is, for the appraisers that not only do GSE work but private, hard money, attorney type stuff..... you still need the established forms. They most likely don't care about the 3.6.

Which company is going to offer both the 3.6 as well as the older forms for clients that still are fine with them?

I certainly don't want to be paying for two subscriptions.

I think there will likely be certifications that can be modified to reflect the assignment, so non-GSE, non-lender clients will adopt the new forms. The software companies would be fools to design it any other way.

 

[Tom D]

You can do both forms on alamode right now. Tbey went with adding the 3.6 code to their normal program.

 

[J Grant]

The thing is, for the appraisers that not only do GSE work but private, hard money, attorney type stuff..... you still need the established forms. They most likely don't care about the 3.6.

Which company is going to offer both the 3.6 as well as the older forms for clients that still are fine with them?

I certainly don't want to be paying for two subscriptions.

Alamode and I assume ACI and maybe Bradford.

 

[Sadie]

If I was an ACI user I would be looking at SFREP. In fact if alamode doesn’t get its act together I might be as well.

One of the legacy firms is not going to make the change. Obviously not Total or ACI

 

[RSW]

The E&O checker is still not working, so I don't know about tge "0's". I used the mobile app. The sketch and photos still don't transfer when uploaded to the cloud. The sketch has to be drawn on my desktop and the photos dragged and dropped into the report on my desktop. This was a test report on my own home. There are a lot of bugs Alamode has to iron out.

 

[Airstream]

The E&O checker is still not working, so I don't know about tge "0's". I used the mobile app. The sketch and photos still don't transfer when uploaded to the cloud. The sketch has to be drawn on my desktop and the photos dragged and dropped into the report on my desktop. This was a test report on my own home. There are a lot of bugs Alamode has to iron out.

That’s a problem if the photos and sketch don’t upload. The ENTIRE point of the mobile app is to save time and not have to redraw and search for photos. And the E&O checker is a must; especially on a new form. I would expect that “bug” to be solved by prime time.

 

[Non Sequitur]

That’s a problem if the photos and sketch don’t upload. The ENTIRE point of the mobile app is to save time and not have to redraw and search for photos. And the E&O checker is a must; especially on a new form. I would expect that “bug” to be solved by prime time.

Yeah, big problem if photos don't upload. The only thing I caught during the webinar today was that the sketch doesn't upload because they haven't configured the sketch to new GSE guidelines for living area reporting.