Now What? .Dirty Bird Special

[GregoryK]

I and others I know have been using Bradford for many years. No issues, and great tech support if you have a question. They offer a monthly subscription so you always have the latest version. I had several issues using Wintotal, the most frustrating was the occasional "Blue Screen of Death" and found it to crash often. It seemed very instable. I have NEVER had an issue with Bradford.

 

[Tim The Enchanter]

"Blue Screen of Death"

Ahh, memories. I haven't seen a bsod in a long time.

 

[Jason J Pustek]

I and others I know have been using Bradford for many years. No issues, and great tech support if you have a question. They offer a monthly subscription so you always have the latest version. I had several issues using Wintotal, the most frustrating was the occasional "Blue Screen of Death" and found it to crash often. It seemed very instable. I have NEVER had an issue with Bradford.

Yeah! let me tell you about Bradford. When United Systems was killed by ACI I tried Click Forms and never liked it. I found it FAR from trouble free and when Bradford decided to dig even deeper in my pocket and go to the "subscription mode" they sent me an update that killed my "bought and paid for" version and turned it into a pay as you go subscription. I either paid their monthly blackmail or I would have ZERO access to my reports done on ClickForms. All I wanted to have was that and the 1004MC form which I was doing in CF and pasting into my last version of Appraisal Studio.

Those rotten pricks wanted me to pay something like $100 to give me new unlock codes because they had hosed my copy of CF with the unwanted update. I still had all of the numbers and codes to reload the software they just would not work.

I hope Bradford dies a long and painful death, impaled on a some old copies of ClickForms reports wound around a broom stick.

FWIW, I am not the only one who had this happen. Nice profit extender for him and a huge drain of an appraisers resources back after the crash.

I am using NCVForms every day and I have never seen the stuff you are talking about and I use an XP machine. Perhaps it is a Windows 7/8 issue. Forms does some goofy things but I can work around them all and I like the way it "feels". I wish JD could find the time to work out some of the bugs, but I will have Forms on my computer for the foreseeable future.

But its all mute anyway. Appraisal software is going the way of the dodo. There is a new wind blowing and its name is not Mariah. It is seamless integration from order to delivery and it will be here before the end of the year. I have been to the mountain top! I have seen the promised land! Anyone without it will be in the same league as we were when we were trying to align the green URARs in our daisy wheel printers and making way too many trips to the One Hour Photo joint.

Film at 11:00

 

[Fargo1]

Yeah! let me tell you about Bradford. When United Systems was killed by ACI I tried Click Forms and never liked it. I found it FAR from trouble free and when Bradford decided to dig even deeper in my pocket and go to the "subscription mode" they sent me an update that killed my "bought and paid for" version and turned it into a pay as you go subscription. I either paid their monthly blackmail or I would have ZERO access to my reports done on ClickForms. All I wanted to have was that and the 1004MC form which I was doing in CF and pasting into my last version of Appraisal Studio.

Those rotten pricks wanted me to pay something like $100 to give me new unlock codes because they had hosed my copy of CF with the unwanted update. I still had all of the numbers and codes to reload the software they just would not work.

I hope Bradford dies a long and painful death, impaled on a some old copies of ClickForms reports wound around a broom stick.

FWIW, I am not the only one who had this happen. Nice profit extender for him and a huge drain of an appraisers resources back after the crash.

I am using NCVForms every day and I have never seen the stuff you are talking about and I use an XP machine. Perhaps it is a Windows 7/8 issue. Forms does some goofy things but I can work around them all and I like the way it "feels". I wish JD could find the time to work out some of the bugs, but I will have Forms on my computer for the foreseeable future.

But its all mute anyway. Appraisal software is going the way of the dodo. There is a new wind blowing and its name is not Mariah. It is seamless integration from order to delivery and it will be here before the end of the year. I have been to the mountain top! I have seen the promised land! Anyone without it will be in the same league as we were when we were trying to align the green URARs in our daisy wheel printers and making way too many trips to the One Hour Photo joint.

Film at 11:00

A surprising post! Most of the issues I've seen posted with NCV have been started by you. I am surprised now to see you as such a strong advocate.

I've tried ClickForms trial versions and I really liked them. But I have no respect for the owner. His recent lawsuit against NCV and then stealing the source code from NCV shows me just what kind of a man Jeff Bradford really is. I like Clickforms software, but I can't in good conscience purchase software from his company. I'll stick with NCV. JD has been nothing but honest and fair with me every step of the way. Like others, I really hope that he can start putting his time back into NCVForms again. There are indeed some issues that I would like to see fixed. But its a fantastic starting base and can be great if JD gets the time to clean up some issues.

Jason - I would be interested in hearing your thoughts on why appraisal software will be a thing of the past. Please start a new thread with your thoughts on this. I'm not at all familiar with this seamless integration thing you are talking about. But if it allows me to run the OS of my choice I might be all for such a system. I'm desparately looking for a way to ditch Windows from my Virtual Machine.

 

[Jason J Pustek]

A Workaround

FWIW if you reset your computer clock 30 days you can get into Forms and then change the date back. Inelegant, but it works.

 

[jdbiggers]

I just want to say that things did not go well for me in court. On technicalities, they were able to get a summary judgment and I have no hope of a trial by jury, which I would win in a heartbeat. My former attorneys completely failed to get extremely relevant information and the timeline for me to do so had already expired.

There is no more fight left in me.

Thank you for all your support.

John-David Biggers

 

[Fargo1]

I just want to say that things did not go well for me in court. On technicalities, they were able to get a summary judgment and I have no hope of a trial by jury, which I would win in a heartbeat. My former attorneys completely failed to get extremely relevant information and the timeline for me to do so had already expired.

There is no more fight left in me.

Thank you for all your support.

John-David Biggers

Wow, this is a surprise. I am very sorry to hear this news. JD I wish you the best in your future endeavors.

I hope you don't mind I started a new thread informing people of this news. [url]http://appraisersforum.com/showthread.php?p=2524472#post2524472[/URL]

You have a lot of faithful followers and I know there will be a lot of talk about this announcement.

 

[JSmith43]

There's plenty of fight left in you. Live well & prosper, and live to fight another day, by advancing in another direction, like all good generals.

 

[dobie]

I can imagine that more than one software company is breathing a sigh of relief today.
NCV had the potential to become player.

It's a little glitchy but I still use it and just renewed a couple of months ago even though the handwriting seemed to be on the wall.

 

[Rick Stillman]

I just want to say that things did not go well for me in court. On technicalities, they were able to get a summary judgment and I have no hope of a trial by jury, which I would win in a heartbeat. My former attorneys completely failed to get extremely relevant information and the timeline for me to do so had already expired.

There is no more fight left in me.

Thank you for all your support.

John-David Biggers

As I posted in another thread, you can make an env converter JD. I use Alamode Total. I will not pay $299 to convert a report.

You are blowing your programs out the door for $99 now. Seize this opportunity to sell to ALL the appraisers out there that need a converter.

You may be back in business with a much simpler product, and a whole lot more customers - in NO time...

Go for it - it's something that is needed right now. FNCINC should partner with you somehow too, as it's for their half baked appraisalport...