Has Anyone Completed A 3.6 Yet

[Alsie35]

The interior/exterior condition is just one of the many tedious and pointless clicking I am doing. I am in the middle of the sales comparison approach and currently I think I have LESS input on the outcome of this process instead of more. Maybe this will change by the end of this report but I currently feel like I am not really developing an opinion of value instead just filling out forms with drop downs and check boxes.

Since I have been doing property data collection for a few months, I notice the "Unit Interior" section comes straight from that. Adding each level of the dwelling and each room one by one then individual updates per room/level.

Also this must be a glitch with TOTAL but once I add a photo, it disappears. It's still in the report but is no longer visible to me.

Other things I hate- the opinion of site value is one of the first things this form asks you to do when it should be towards the end.

Going through this I am legitimately wondering if there is any chance that this entire thing can be scrapped.

Appraisers as a whole will hate this with a burning passion. This has made the entire process longer while seemingly allowing the appraiser to do his/her job less. Older appraisers are going to have a miserable time adapting and will leave the business..



I am known to hate change. I thought I was screwed with UAD showed up but I adapted quickly... So maybe after a few I'll be calm... but this blows.

There's no law against asking them for an additional fee due to the unexpected complexity and time involved - or, in the extreme case that I have used on occasion, simply turning the order back in and telling them to assign it to another appraiser while charging them no fee. That way you are not burning your bridges but are also getting yourself out of a real mess.

Think about it.

 

[J Grant]

There's no law against asking them for an additional fee due to the unexpected complexity and time involved - or, in the extreme case that I have used on occasion, simply turning the order back in and telling them to assign it to another appraiser while charging them no fee. That way you are not burning your bridges but are also getting yourself out of a real mess.

Think about it.

Makes more sense to charge the fee you need and the turn time you need. test the waters, find out if they will respond and that might guide if it is worth it to stay in business for an appraiser or not.

 

[J Grant]

To address the threat of AI autopopulating reports and picking comps, wrt the UAD 3.6 crossbred with software developed to AI populate it ..

I am working on a two-million-dollar-plus $ purchase property flip. Double in price over its sale last year as a dated home. A high-quality renovation, but the house is in a dividing line area with respect to value. I have no idea yet if it will appraise at sale price or not.

However, I did have an interesting conversation with the RE agent, who was eager to tell me about how she spent $ subscribing to the pro version of Anthropic AI for valuations to help her price properties. She told me the software has a "think like an appraiser " mode, and then she handed me the comps it selected.

Well, the "think like an appraiser" AI picked the same price, hitting weird and inappropriate comps we have been seeing for years from RE agents - my subject is a ranch house, 1960's era build. The AI picked a few of those, then it picked historic 1920s- 1930s built Spanish style, houses half the size or double the size, homes in superior areas, etc. The narrative the AI generated to support the comp choices was comical and used tech and appraiser terminology inappropriately, and supported inane comp choices in a narrative of circular logic - it would impress an average person. It impressed the RE agent - no shade on her, she is a salesperson, but it shows what is going on out there.

Now every RE agent with AI can spit out comps for an ROV. The appraisal fee falls short of covering all the unpaid work on the back end, addressing ROV, and inane petty corrections (which will triple with UAD 3.6 due to expanded data fields )

 

[J Grant]

These are results for anthropic think like an appraiser
Search instead for antropic think like an appraiser

It turned out Sh**tt ( see my above post )!
But the PR they came up with is first class corporate spin -ee8t tu






Thinking like an appraiser using Anthropic’s models means shifting from a "search engine" mindset to an "agentic" workflow. By using advanced reasoning, Claude acts like a senior reviewer who generates property narratives, verifies comparables, and handles calculations, allowing you to edit and finalize the work.

Key Strategies to Make Claude "Appraise"
1. Enable Extended Thinking
When dealing with complex appraisal guidelines, 1004 MC analyses, or heavy data synthesis, use extended thinking models like Claude 3.7 Sonnet. This prevents the AI from rushing to a conclusion.

• Prompt Strategy: Tell Claude to "think step-by-step," "evaluate alternatives," or "analyze data carefully" before finalizing its output. You can actively watch the model break down the valuation logic in real-time.

2. Implement the "Advisor" Pattern
If you are building your own workflows or using agent tools, Anthropic’s Advisor architecture pairs a smaller, faster model (like Claude Haiku or Sonnet for retrieving MLS data and running formulas) with a larger model (like Claude Opus) acting as the senior appraiser to review plans and decompose complex problems.

 

[Overimprovement]

If AI ends up replacing tens or hundreds of millions of workers across every industry, is it too early to ask what becomes of this society? Is the entire world digging our own graves?

 

[NC Appraising]

The kids are getting it and are not buying it. After spending 120k on college and come to find out AI is replacing you....

https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/anthropic-AI-dario-amodei-humanity

 

[chad hampton]

UBI we’ll have to accompany any significant AI takeover of jobs. Most of the serious people that talk about AI being the future already acknowledge this. So for the state of our industry, when you take away 80,000 appraiser jobs, it will be the GSE’s and lenders who are taxed heavily to pay us to sit home.

Now we are just a speck of sand on the beach, but it will be that way with every industry.

Unless they want complete violence in the streets. Historically, when you approach 10% unemployment, you get riots. This has potential to go a hell of a lot higher than 10%. We have more guns in this country than we have people. They will be put to use if needed. Desperate people do desperate things. That’s why for most of the last 50 years they’ve kept us just comfortable enough.

I personally don’t see how that’s possible. I think the American spirit is one that wants to get up and go to work and contribute in society every day. It gives us a purpose. I guess we’ll see.

 

[Sadie]

If AI ends up replacing tens or hundreds of millions of workers across every industry, is it too early to ask what becomes of this society? Is the entire world digging our own graves?

Hasn't anyone seen Terminator or the Matrix?

 

[J Grant]

If AI ends up replacing tens or hundreds of millions of workers across every industry, is it too early to ask what becomes of this society? Is the entire world digging our own graves?

if they replace millions of jobs, they are eliminating their customer base of people who have enough income to buy the product or service they produce, more "efficiently" with AI-

Maybe the next generation will turn their back on materialism - looks like they might have to whether they want to or not. Live simply, communes, homestead, barter, or kill and eat each other?

 

[DWiley]

To address the threat of AI autopopulating reports and picking comps, wrt the UAD 3.6 crossbred with software developed to AI populate it ..

I am working on a two-million-dollar-plus $ purchase property flip. Double in price over its sale last year as a dated home. A high-quality renovation, but the house is in a dividing line area with respect to value. I have no idea yet if it will appraise at sale price or not.

However, I did have an interesting conversation with the RE agent, who was eager to tell me about how she spent $ subscribing to the pro version of Anthropic AI for valuations to help her price properties. She told me the software has a "think like an appraiser " mode, and then she handed me the comps it selected.

Well, the "think like an appraiser" AI picked the same price, hitting weird and inappropriate comps we have been seeing for years from RE agents - my subject is a ranch house, 1960's era build. The AI picked a few of those, then it picked historic 1920s- 1930s built Spanish style, houses half the size or double the size, homes in superior areas, etc. The narrative the AI generated to support the comp choices was comical and used tech and appraiser terminology inappropriately, and supported inane comp choices in a narrative of circular logic - it would impress an average person. It impressed the RE agent - no shade on her, she is a salesperson, but it shows what is going on out there.

Now every RE agent with AI can spit out comps for an ROV. The appraisal fee falls short of covering all the unpaid work on the back end, addressing ROV, and inane petty corrections (which will triple with UAD 3.6 due to expanded data fields )

How is that any different from what agents have been doing for years? We have all gotten ROVs where the agent used $/SF as a justification, while providing sales of much smaller homes that woudl naturally have a higher price per sq ft. The fact that they are using Chat or Claude now does not change the basic behavior.