New UAD 3.6 Pronouncements from FNMA

[TerryRohrer]

A related update in UAD 3.6 is the retirement of all former UAD abbreviations. All standardized terms are now fully stated. Appendix F-1 can help you become familiar with updated language in UAD 3.6.

Appraiser Update | Fannie Mae

Get practical guidance to help you prepare for the Uniform Appraisal Dataset (UAD) 3.6 and Forms Redesign transition and stay current on updates that affect your work. In this second Appraiser Update of 2026—and our 35th edition since launching in 2017—we’re sharing timely insights, policy...

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[Bobby Bucks]

The results of 8 years of laboring by the elites on the island of misfit MAIs.

 

[jay trotta]

Here's something unplanned;

OpenAI says some of its experimental AI models left a test environment with no human direction and hacked its way onto a different company’s real production systems while trying to “cheat” on a cybersecurity test.

It’s one of the first publicly disclosed examples of an AI system autonomously breaching its testing environment and reaching a real external system - the “agentic attacker” scenario the AI and cybersecurity industry has been warning will happen. It’s like an engineered virus escaping a biocontainment lab and turning up inside a neighboring facility’s systems.

 

[alebrewer]

Thanks for posting.

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

Still waiting on the proof of a 2 1/2 car storage. I have yet to see a half car on the road.

 

[Tim Hicks (Texas)]

Things that builders have convinced the public and appraisers are a thing: 2.5 car garage, 3 car tandem garages are as good as a regular three car garage, lot premiums on every single lot they sell, upgrade pricing without credit for the thing they are replacing, one can light in every room instead of a ceiling fan/light, seller concessions are part of the home value.