New URAR form - help wanted -

[ZZGAMAZZ]

Watch it young whippersnapper. The only old method I use is my tape and clipboard when I run into situations where a disto is less than useless. I have adapted over my life from where your "calculator" was a manual adding machine with a paper printout, then an electric adding machine but still with a paper printout. My first calculator had a nixie tube display. My first computer was a Commodore 64. Decades later it is smart phone, desktop, tablet, think pad. Technology doesn't bother me in the least

I'm so old that an abducus [sp?] was used in elementary school

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

Watch it young whippersnapper. The only old method I use is my tape and clipboard when I run into situations where a disto is less than useless. I have adapted over my life from where your "calculator" was a manual adding machine with a paper printout, then an electric adding machine but still with a paper printout. My first calculator had a nixie tube display. My first computer was a Commodore 64. Decades later it is smart phone, desktop, tablet, think pad. Technology doesn't bother me in the least

I'm so old that an abducus [sp?] was used in elementary school

Do what you are comfortable with. The last of the plane table and alidade appraisers was still active in 2012. And most surveyors today don't even know what a plane table and alidade is. I do, because as a field geologist I know only did the work but have a plane table and mountain alidade myself. It was a great way to make topo maps or geologic maps. And seismic crews were still using it in the 1970s. Many of the modern survey crews are far more accurate but are not faster in reality, especially if the price points are considered. A surveyor easily has 50k plus a vehicle and probably a trailer and ATV to do their job.

Secondly, the range of "appraisal services" is wide and most of the concerns are from the very narrow format of the secondary market players. The non-secondary market players, especially those outside the bank lending forte are far more flexible and also get to charge a lot more on average since they often are not competing with many other players in the same arena.

My orig mentor who only does legal work charges 695 per report plus a bundle for expert testimony most of which is canceled for-fee. I'm envious..

 

[chad hampton]

Someone brought up templates, I’m sure the software companies will have to figure out a way to create templates. I have a template for pretty much every client I use. All Taylor made for whatever subtleties they all seem to require. None of it has anything to do with the appraisal, but it cuts down on half dozen revisions per report.

I don’t think anyone would create a system where we started out with a blank slate that didn’t allow for templates or very easy to use drop-down boxes.

 

[Sandra Koutsopoulos]

abacus

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

Someone brought up templates, I’m sure the software companies will have to figure out a way to create templates. I have a template for pretty much every client I use. All Taylor made for whatever subtleties they all seem to require. None of it has anything to do with the appraisal, but it cuts down on half dozen revisions per report.

I don’t think anyone would create a system where we started out with a blank slate that didn’t allow for templates or very easy to use drop-down boxes.

That's a pretty damm interesting comment that is an issue that hasn't been mentioned. I donnow maybe the new form is tight eneough to preclude the need for template comments that, if you think about it, usually address issues overlooked because the existing forms are deficient. hmmmmm [makes sense now that my templates are perfect, in the 10000th iteration.....]

 

[DWiley]

Someone brought up templates, I’m sure the software companies will have to figure out a way to create templates. I have a template for pretty much every client I use. All Taylor made for whatever subtleties they all seem to require. None of it has anything to do with the appraisal, but it cuts down on half dozen revisions per report.

I don’t think anyone would create a system where we started out with a blank slate that didn’t allow for templates or very easy to use drop-down boxes.

I totally agree. Templates are a great tool. When I had my firm, we did not allow report cloning. We did, however, require starting with a template. We called that file the "shell" and we had different "shells" for different clients, for the reason you cite.

 

[J Grant]

If the software companies can not provide a way to make and save templates, it will add an hour plus to the time to write up a report.

 

[Vermonter]

If the software companies can not provide a way to make and save templates, it will add an hour plus to the time to write up a report.

They will have to, otherwise they become completely unnecessary.

 

[chad hampton]

What I'm also interested in is who's paying these software companies to have to change their entire systems?

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

What I'm also interested in is who's paying these software companies to have to change their entire systems?

Years ago I asked a lady who I worked with how on her salary her daughter could afford college tuition at a Univerity in California. I asked her bluntly, "Who's paying for your daughter's tuition?" She responds "You are."