Useful UAD guide

[djd09]

Of course, no appraiser has ever been known to engage in hyperbole! Watching the discussion of UAD 3.6 unfold over the past year has been embarrassing. The new "hot button" issue of Certification 25 or 26 is particularly stupid and leaves one (or everyone, including our clients) wondering why anyone would continue to rely on appraisers. If we can't be honest about all these insignificant issues, how can anyone trust an opinion of market value?

blaming the victim...like a true liberal

 

[TerryRohrer]

blaming the victim...like a true liberal

Continuing to be stupid...like a true idiot.

 

[DWiley]

I posted the guide to be helpful, but imo this form is not appraiser-friendly. It has disjointed segments, and each one might need clicks to expand a field or add a photo - a series of roadblocks set up over the mundane but time-consuming tasks that often involve repeating the same info in duplicate sections.

Imo, neither AI nor the auto-fill aspects of software can change that - it is embedded in the DNA of the 3.6 architecture.

WRT the advantage to appraisers of fewer revisions- appraisers who got frequent revisions due to an addendum issue could have fixed it. The switch to 3.6 was not about making it better for the appraiser; more probably, it was done to facilitate loan packaging to investors or data collection. So much energy goes into the minutiae of the form that it is hard to concentrate on the appraisal aspect. I am hoping that might improve in the future as more software functionality comes about but the format is what it is.

Anyone commenting about 3.6 who has not actually tried to fill one out, start to finish, including saving it to a ZIP file after the E and O comes back with a list of field violations to cure - those people are making assumptions. Many software vendors offer free trials of 3.6 and the appraiser can do a mock appraisal of their own home. Still waiting for one of them to do it ...

If you do not think software can change the perception of how the report is created, then you have not tried some of the software. There are definitely some who designed their software to reflect/mimic the "fill in a form" history of appraisal reporting and there are some who took a different approach. Anyone who opts to use the former should not be surprised at the experience. And, to be clear, I am not saying that one is better than the other. They are just very different experiences.

 

[djd09]

Continuing to be stupid...like a true idiot.

keep shilling...

 

[J Grant]

If you do not think software can change the perception of how the report is created, then you have not tried some of the software. There are definitely some who designed their software to reflect/mimic the "fill in a form" history of appraisal reporting and there are some who took a different approach. Anyone who opts to use the former should not be surprised at the experience. And, to be clear, I am not saying that one is better than the other. They are just very different experiences.

At some future date I might try the alternative choices; however, I barely have time to turn in the 3.6 orders I am getting with my existing software ALAMODE. Plus, I am still getting orders for 2.6 - learning and trying other software options takes time - the feedback from people who tried them are that they are not perfect either -

Within several months, ALAMODE will offer better integration with autofill options, and if I ever try another software that is significantly better, I would change at that time.

 

[djd09]

who has time to try every software...right, Terry?

 

[Zoe]

At some future date I might try the alternative choices; however, I barely have time to turn in the 3.6 orders I am getting with my existing software ALAMODE. Plus, I am still getting orders for 2.6 - learning and trying other software options takes time - the feedback from people who tried them are that they are not perfect either -

Within several months, ALAMODE will offer better integration with autofill options, and if I ever try another software that is significantly better, I would change at that time.

Here is thing girlfriend. Corelogic has connections.

There is no way they will lose on effciency

Not possible.

 

[ZZGAMAZZ]

I would never even consider analyzing a STR property on the 1007. The 1007 is designed for real estate rent; not the business income of STRs. YMMV.

If I said that, I did not mean to do so. I stole the thread without meaning to do so. The stand-alone 1007 assignments I received in the past were not STR's; they were "regular" residential rental analysises. Reminds me to ask [totally different topics} if there is any scenario when a CA AR could appraiser a SFR wtith a small retail store as improvement number two? I don't think so but want to make sure that I don't overlook any possibility. Thanks. GM