Env Photo Limit

[Overimprovement]

So apparently the ENV file format limits a file to 99 pictures, and PDF and sketch pages apparently count toward that total.

My subject is a 15,000+ sqft home with a large guest house, extensive outdoor areas, etc. My current photo total is about 175. Just my sketch is 6 pages long...

Have a stubborn AMC/lender who will not accept a PDF file. (For now--they may have no choice in the end)

Anyone run into this? Only solutions I have come up with are trimming photos to an unacceptable level--many support some of the narrative in the report, or splitting it into two reports, each with 85-90 photos.

Any other creative solutions?

And yes, the fee was appropriate to my total time on the report--the funny thing is it was originally sent out to me with a fee of $365. Hilarious!

 

[Proactive]

I haven't used ENV in years, so I don't know if this is helpful or not: Try scanning your photo pages to PDF and add as supplemental addenda pages. That way ENV may recognize them as one photo per page.

Good luck!

 

[Vermonter]

I can see 175 photos in the workfile, I've had more than that on houses a fraction the size....buy why would you need that many in the actual report?

 

[Carnivore]

Hmmm I have heard of limits set by lenders, but never by AIPort. What I heard is AIport can expand the amount. But this obviously is over the top even for aiport.

 

[Overimprovement]

I can see 175 photos in the workfile, I've had more than that on houses a fraction the size....buy why would you need that many in the actual report?

This happens when the subject value is over 10 times the market median value, you have over 50 rooms/areas just in the main house, and a guest house bigger than the median home in the area...and so on. The basement kitchen was larger than any kitchen I've ever seen...the main one was almost 1,000 square feet. Basically just supporting my value conclusion by showing quality items.

 

[Carnivore]

Your at a stalemate with AMC Baffon's. Tell them they can increase size limit by calling Corelogic. I know and am almost positive that this can be done. Why is because on of my clients i had encountered this issue, they contacted Corelogic and then just like that No Problem ever again.

 

[Overimprovement]

My last email to them went something like this: Please find enclosed the PDF report. As mentioned, it has been verified that the limit on ENV file is 99 photos, with PDF's counting toward that. Please advise which 14 pages of pictures lender does not want, and I will remove them and create the ENV file for you.

About an hour later, I was thanked for the PDF file, and told they had finally been able to create their own ENV file, through luck, deletion of a bunch of pictures, or some well-kept industry secret. I was told by the tech he just kept on trying and simply 'lucked' into it, but I don't buy it.

Whatever, its off my plate now. Thanks gang!

PS--the more I learned about ENV files and their history in this process, the less I understand the why of it all. Our data can be mined without that format, anyone know why some lenders still demand this garbage format which loses quite a bit in the translation?

 

[spittman]

Are you using 3 photos per page? I haven't converted to ENV in a while, but see if your software has a 6 photo addendum. You can use the 3 photo for the main pics and the 6 for others. That should cut it in half. If not try to copy and past 6 photos into a word document and then scan that into a legal map addendum. Good luck.