Subjective language? lol

[ZZGAMAZZ]

In a profession, we put aside our personal lives and feelings about censorship -

Professions have a verbiage they use - legal terminology, medical terminology, appraisers. Amongst themselves, doctors or lawyers might trash talk their clients or patients, but in briefs and giving a diagnosis or in a court, they use professional language -it is not censorship.

RE agents have their own language, which imo can influence appraisers - emotions and every description is exaggerated. That said, I think some of the "banned words " for being subjective are inane, such as higher or lower or average. These are commonly understood words, and since the sales companion approach COMPARES properties, comparative terms are needed - this price was higher than that price, this home's condition was average, and this home's condition was good. Banning /requiring a context for such terms puts an unnecessary burden on appraisers on top of added scope creep and minutae they keep adding (while maintaining a tight turn time- it cumulatively adds hours of time nit-picking for nonsense)

Your comments should be published in an industy magazine. Only thing that worries me about interfering in free speech might be harbinger to constraint of property ownership...

 

[Tom D]

Many bad words can be abbreviated, and the system doesn't doesn't recognize as racial. So for years, yrs. Good, gd, Average, av or avg. Learn the work around, there is one in every system.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

Many bad words can be abbreviated, and the system doesn't doesn't recognize as racial. So for years, yrs. Good, gd, Average, av or avg. Learn the work around, there is one in every system.

My workaround is hyphenation e.g., "afford-ability." While we're discussing language, I'm seeking a word that would come-between Unique and Similar. Also seeking an alternative to Significant, which a prof once described as a word that should pertain only to statistically significant factors...

 

[J Grant]

My workaround is hyphenation e.g., "afford-ability." While we're discussing language, I'm seeking a word that would come-between Unique and Similar. Also seeking an alternative to Significant, which a prof once described as a word that should pertain only to statistically significant factors...

Equivalent for similar. Relevant for significant (but what is wrong with significant?) Nothing wrong with unique, though atypical might do.

 

[alebrewer]

I'm seeking a word that would come-between Unique and Similar

howz atypical?

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

howz atypical?

Yes n No. That's usually an appropriate word, but in this context I wish to describe the correlation in quality/condition to the subject in the SCA. "Unique" rarely if ever can be used IMO because there are too many factors that describe any property to the extent that No Other

howz atypical?

Well Yes n No both. The context to which I refer is the desription of the subject as well as a comparison in the SCA between the subject and the comparables. The word "Unique" almost inevitably defines EVERY property because the nuances of real property are such that two properties rarely if ever are literally identical. However IMO the word "Similar" isn't meaningful to the extent that is accurately describes a comp that is "almost unique" to the subject. Just a pet peeve of mine that presumably not 1 in 1 million intended users would ever consider--but I recently read an article about an important legal matter with the judicial opinion based upon implications of a series of items in a sentence, depending on whether or not the final item was separated from the previous word by a comma, as well as the word "and." [Not sure if I'm discribing the legal distinction appropriately...or whether anybody cares...]