Smartexchange

[TJSum]

Because of this UAD crapola, losing my personal comp data base is not an option as I do get to reuse many comps, UAD consistency issues would wreak havoc if I switched software.

 

[Tom Woolford]

Unfortunately, I think you're correct. Nckel and dime us on everything....even features previously included in the subscription. All while exploiting our data.

Got a little under a year to find another option and then I'm done. If no one gets a web based software up and running, I'll go ACI or Clickforms. It would take a radical change in direction for Core-lamode to keep me at this point.

I only have a couple years left as a full time field Appraiser, then I'm going to stick with just desk-work. There doesn't seem to be any point in switching now so I'll just suffer through it, but I will NOT be using the dumb exchange. It can't be relied on.

 

[bnmappraisal]

I'm working on a property and typed in the address for a comp I'm going to use. 2 "peer comp" versions pulled up. For giggles I click on them to see what "info" is used.

1 of them is the one I'm going to use (date of sale 12/2017) but the other was another version with a date of sale 8/2012

Wow ... 6+ years of data

 

[Digger88]

I only have a couple years left as a full time field Appraiser, then I'm going to stick with just desk-work. There doesn't seem to be any point in switching now so I'll just suffer through it, but I will NOT be using the dumb exchange. It can't be relied on.

what youll find is that at lot of your 'peers' are not very accurate.

 

[Non Sequitur]

what youll find is that at lot of your 'peers' are not very accurate.

That and a lot of the comps look incomplete. I think a lot weren’t used in reports, possibly partially gridded then saved to the workfile.

 

[Doug in NC]

I'm working on a property and typed in the address for a comp I'm going to use. 2 "peer comp" versions pulled up. For giggles I click on them to see what "info" is used.

1 of them is the one I'm going to use (date of sale 12/2017) but the other was another version with a date of sale 8/2012

Wow ... 6+ years of data

I think that's how it works. Once an appraiser opts in, their entire database of comps is copied over to the Corelogic storage bank to be resold potentially thousands of times. I believe that's the big scam of offering SE to appraisers on the "Free Trial" basis. My guess is that the opting in legal language you agree to in the free trial grants permission to share your database of comps- and once that information has been taken from you, you won't ever be able to get it back (and CL has no obligation to give it back because the appraiser inadvertently signed away the rights to his/her information on the promise of a free gift).

 

[Doug in NC]

i only have one AMC client and they just pass along the lender requirements, they don't add anything. i should have worded my response a little differently. i have 3 direct engagement and 1 AMC that i do lending work for and all of them require original comp photos.

Do you ever get any Estate appraisal work through your Realtor contacts? I've tried marketing directly to estate attorneys on multiple occasions, but nothing ever panned out of my efforts.

 

[Leon Marcus]

Why would anyone let Alamode take your info and resell it back to you? I cant imagine giving permission to this company to take my data and sell it back to me. The idea of sharing general peer data (living area, basement size, basement finished area and room count) is good but the way Alamode is doing it is enough for me to find another software provider to use. I almost dont care if the software is not "as good". Alamode has a habit of making the software less and less usable. I started using it in 1999 because I could have it on as many computers as I wanted but it quickly got to be such a horrible drain on any computer it was almost unusable. They saw this and came out with "Total" as a remedy to the slow resource hogging software only to have it change and go back to a horrible and resource hog of a program.

 

[TRESinc]

Why would anyone let Alamode take your info and resell it back to you? I cant imagine giving permission to this company to take my data and sell it back to me.

i could be wrong but i don't believe they sell you your own data, they sell you the data from other appraisers. you already have all your data in your comps database.

either way it is a stupid endeavor (the idea of data sharing is good but the application $uck$).

 

[Evincere]

I think that's how it works. Once an appraiser opts in, their entire database of comps is copied over to the Corelogic storage bank to be resold potentially thousands of times. I believe that's the big scam of offering SE to appraisers on the "Free Trial" basis. My guess is that the opting in legal language you agree to in the free trial grants permission to share your database of comps- and once that information has been taken from you, you won't ever be able to get it back (and CL has no obligation to give it back because the appraiser inadvertently signed away the rights to his/her information on the promise of a free gift).

I think you nailed it. There’s been years and years worth of untapped appraisal data just sitting there, the SE free trial was IMNSHO an ingenious way of obtaining it.