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New URAR form - help wanted -

Tom D said:
So you spend your time app typing there, instead of typing inside on your desktop. Must be pleasant on a rainy or snow, or very cold day. The same amount of time to type the same info on the same program. Just curious, do you type with both hands on the app, or slower with one hand because you're holding an umbrella or your equipment. Today it's a 100 degrees with 90% humidity. Is this a test on how much you can endure. I mostly do little row homes, but what do i know. I do remember those big suburban homes with a lot of measuring on those very cold windy days where i lost the feeling in my fingers. Couldn't write with a pencil. Maybe an app would have been better, just poking it with my frozen finger.

Certification, USPAP, hvcc, ansi, new uad3. Some of you people are in la la land about what has been good for this business.
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I am going to speak to my Software provider, but overall I feel as you do - instead of typing it in our home computer, we are under pressure to type it in on an app at a home site - its the same time entering either way, but at my home office I can concentrate better. If we take notes and check the boxes on paper at the inspection, perhaps it adds 10 minutes more to enter it in the form at our home office- a trade-off of time I am willing to make.

However, that assumes it is even possible with this "dynamic format." It seems like it is possible per the information I have so far from Alamode.

If the software providers can not design a drop-down comments and menu, or the format is incompatible with it, that will add hours to the report and make it unworkable.
 
Doesn't matter. GSE has plans to use your data and make profit off your data and intellectual data with no returns to you. There is something called copyright laws and other laws related to interstate commerce with the Federal Trade Commission. Laws are really related to commerce period with FTC. It doesn't have to be interstate commerce. It can be in state commerce as well with Federal Trade Commission.
 
DWiley said:
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.
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I'll ask again at risk of being obtuse. Why did you leave the very successful private firm you had?

Why is always the hardest question to answer. Who, what, when, where and why? Why is always hardest question to answer.
 
I told you about Mike Orman Danny and you know he went through divorce and met another lady that was lobbying for separation of fees and an appraiser. So he got rid of his private practice and moved to be with her. He went to work for large bank as chief appraiser. He is past president of NAIFA. That is why he did it. He told me they made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Plus he wanted to be with his new wife and she didn't want to move to Memphis. That is why he did it. Why did you leave your private practice?

Make no mistake, NAIFA spent tons of money lobbying for separation fees on truth in lending disclosures and lost. I don't remember Appraisal Institute doing the same at the time in place.
 
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I'll move on because I know I won't get an answer of Why? Politics involved.

What bothers me also is VA and HUD did not lobby for separation of fees. That bothers me more than Appraisal institute not lobbying more for separation of fees on truth in lending disclosures to borrowers.

I am also upset with Federal Trade Commission and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Joan Trice don't want to come on and debate with me anymore. She knows how I feel about separation of fees and appraisers being paid for intellectual property data.

Ms. Joan will never challenge me again. Especially now.

I think between Evincere, me and Marion. Joan said I give up. Just my personal opinion..

I miss marion. She was probably my favorite poster and strong conservative.

Joan had somewhat liberal, and conservative hitting her from everywhere. Joan stood no chance.

The hits were coming from basic law.
 
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Samsung tablet. Widescreen and flash. Also better format that ipad. Been using it for 12 years....no problem. Just hit the save button throughout the inspection.

Some companies make military grade* waterproof* tablets if you live in a weather prone area.


Never a issue with the sun. It has viewing screen with a zoom in feature. You can also measure two points if needed.

Speed. No comparison.

What most are leaving out is the auto fill and quick list in total for mobile.

You take a pic, and click the bedroom in quick list done. Do it while you walk.

Another great feature is that it remembers your last inputs. Say you take a pic of the window. Vinyl with screens insulated. You hit v....vinyl....w...with comes up, etc.

Sketch. It's all done and verified before you leave the home.

Photos. Labeled and finished.

The interior is finished and labeled.


No more uploading and labeling photos. No more transferring the Sketch from paper to desktop. No more filling out the improvement section


Lastly.....my lower back. The less I have to sit down the better.
 
NC Appraising said:
Samsung tablet. Widescreen and flash. Also better format that ipad. Been using it for 12 years....no problem. Just hit the save button throughout the inspection.

Some companies make military grade* waterproof* tablets if you live in a weather prone area.


Never a issue with the sun. It has viewing screen with a zoom in feature. You can also measure two points if needed.

Speed. No comparison.

What most are leaving out is the auto fill and quick list in total for mobile.

You take a pic, and click the bedroom in quick list done. Do it while you walk.

Another great feature is that it remembers your last inputs. Say you take a pic of the window. Vinyl with screens insulated. You hit v....vinyl....w...with comes up, etc.

Sketch. It's all done and verified before you leave the home.

Photos. Labeled and finished.

The interior is finished and labeled.


No more uploading and labeling photos. No more transferring the Sketch from paper to desktop. No more filling out the improvement section


Lastly.....my lower back. The less I have to sit down the better.
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My bold in your comment. Can you expand on your extrapolation?

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Speed. No comparison.
 
Zoe said:
I'll ask again at risk of being obtuse. Why did you leave the very successful private firm you had?

Why is always the hardest question to answer. Who, what, when, where and why? Why is always hardest question to answer.
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Why are you hassling DWiley? He doesn’t have to participate in this forum, but he does and we should be grateful. No one here is particularly fond of Fannie, but to heap abuse on him is patently unfair, he doesn’t make all their decisions, but he does explain much of what is going on. I think of him like Baron Von Richtofen in WW I, he’s a brilliant and honorable person who just happens to be on the wrong side. In this crazy industry I would never fault anyone for where they’re employed, we all must make choices on where to work. I hope he engages the ignore button on you as a time saver if nothing else.
 
I have been using the IPad Pro for many years with the Total Mobile App with the Apple pencil and a Disto. You guys and girls need to give it a try. It has drop down menus and shortcuts. Sketching the home is just as quick as pencil and paper once you get the hang of it. You can do voice notes for narrative information, but save the narrative typing for home. You have all the check boxes checked at the house, many of the drop down responses already in the report. You just upload from the field and download it to the report when you return to the office. You do have to clean up the sketch a little sometimes, but it takes very little time to do that. The actual applying the adjustments to comps is done back at the office. It takes way less time to do the upload download time than to start from scratch on a form from paper and pencil notes.

Time? Most proper inspections take 20-30 minutes. I have found that a 3000 sf home takes about 30 minutes, a 4000 sf home about 40 minutes. We have very few rectangle homes here unless they are double wides which are much quicker to measure.

Even so, there are many complicated home measures that will take longer just like with a paper and pencil. But, you the exact GLA when you are done measuring and no worries about the home closing correctly when back at the office.

As far as the HERS ratings? What if you don't have that data and it is not readily available? That appears to be the only stickler for the new forms I see.
 
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