How Many Double Check Sketch Before Leaving Property

[Digger88]

i use to use total sketch at the property and it was especially nice for the more difficult ones. that is until i dropped the device down a flight of stairs, now i use graph paper and pencil.

i have become very comfortable with my drawings and no longer double check before leaving the property. in the earlier years i would check even the easiest ones.

graph paper and a pencil? do you actually draw to scale? i think i do the opposite.

 

[Joe Flacco]

lol is that really your sketch? That is amazing.

 

[Digger88]

Not difficult at all...not everybody is taught to do it tho. I wasn't when I started.

ok, i hear ya. i was brought up doing construction as a teen and was never taught this from an appraiser but my work backround gave me my understanding.

 

[Artemis Fowl]

Guess you don't do cost approach much?

Mine were kinda messy 'til new job. Other people sketch based on my field-work...forced me to clean it up so anyone could sketch it. Still keep the complex ones tho.

 

[ucbruin]

graph paper and a pencil? do you actually draw to scale? i think i do the opposite.

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My sketch is a bit neater but not by much....
I write all my notes along the sides of the sketch which can make for a very sloppy sheet of paper depending on the condition and quality of the house.....

Right handed, right?

 

[Digger88]

lol is that really your sketch? That is amazing.

yep. whats wrong with it, lol? all pertinent info accounted for!

 

[Digger88]

My sketch is a bit neater but not by much....
I write all my notes along the sides of the sketch which can make for a very sloppy sheet of paper depending on the condition and quality of the house.....

Right handed, right?

yes sir. and yea sketch on the front/top of the actual file and notes below. you would be screwed if you tried to type a report from my notes but i know what they mean and thats all that matters.

 

[Tom Woolford]

Like another said, I use Total mobile so the sketch is done before I leave the property. I measure to the nearest 1/10 of a foot so it rarely closes perfectly but if I'm off more than 5-6 10ths, I find out why. Its usually an angle somewhere.

 

[ucbruin]

yes sir. and yea sketch on the front/top of the actual file and notes below. you would be screwed if you tried to type a report from my notes but i know what they mean and thats all that matters.

colonial 36' X 25' with a 90% finished basement....
2 car garage...
Does the house cantilever 3' over the basement?

 

[Digger88]

Guess you don't do cost approach much?

Mine were kinda messy 'til new job. Other people sketch based on my field-work...forced me to clean it up so anyone could sketch it. Still keep the complex ones tho.

not for VA but for other clients sure i do.