Virgina REAB and Portal Petition

[George Hatch]

What my HP printers put out sometimes don't look exactly the same as what I see on my monitor, even prior to sending it through a pdf writer. I guess I could say that the print managers in Windows are performing a conversion, too.

Maybe I've got it wrong, but as I read USPAP what seems to matter is what I transmit to the client.

 

[Pamela Crowley (Florida)]

How many of you here have ever seen one of your Fannie form appraisal reports 'converted' into a .pdf document that removed many of your text comments fields of your Fannie form appraisal reports and put it "See attached addendum" instead of your own comments?

How many of you here have ever seen one of your Fannie form appraisal reports 'converted' into a .pdf document that removed many of your addendum pages?

 

[Smokey Bear]

Misleading, huh. Here is how Adobe describes it,

"And with Adobe® Acrobat® 9 software, it can. Now it's easy to convert almost any file to a polished PDF file."

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/solutions/detail/combine_share.html

Perhaps Adobe does not understand how their own software works.

It is a different kind of conversion, but it is a conversion.

Some have suggested errors in PDF conversions are "less than rare." I find significant errors in PDF conversions very often, and the appraisal reports I convert into PDF format are almost never exactly like what I see on the screen.

Come on, this is getting ridiculous. The pdf converts the file format, not the content. AI Ready and Appraisal Port convert the CONTENT of the report, which is unacceptable. There isn't even a comparison between what goes on with a pdf and what goes on with portals.

 

[DWiley]

Come on, this is getting ridiculous. The pdf converts the file format, not the content.

I agree, it is getting ridiculous. People will not even acknowledge what is widely known.

Would you like me to send you a file to show where PDF conversions changed some of my file content? At least AIReady warns me these things happen. Adobe does not.

Anyone who can read can tell that AIReady can lead to changes in format. (moving text from one field to another is format, not content). That is spelled out in the AIReady material, and anyone can look at the changes before submitting it.

It is true that some forms don't translate in some software. That is on the software vendor that is providing less than 100% AIReady support.

 

[Pamela Crowley (Florida)]

I'm guessing these AIReady conversions are a bit different now than even a year ago.

The spin here is astounding.

 

[George Hatch]

My experience with AI Ready was limited to performing assignments for a specific client through AppraisalPort. My software vendor included a warning about formatting and posted a copy of the report in the format it was sending. I don't recall if I had the option to print from that screen or not.

I do recall not liking the idea of the program moving stuff around in my reports, so I reformatted what I was doing on my end so as to conform with the formatting the program would use when transmitting my report. You could say that I chose to work within AppraisalPort's parameters.

I'm pretty sure that after I decided to work within the known parameters of the program that what I was sending out of my office was what I intended to send out. FWIW.

What may or may not have happened to those reports after that I don't know. On that I defer to those people who do know.

 

[RICHARD D. FRANK]

a universal standard?

http://www.mismo.org/News/NewsArticle.aspx?60990

 

[McPheeters]

Mr. Wiley: Since you appear to be an avid proponent of AI Ready, would you consider the Alamode-provided warning to be inaccurate? misleading?

 

[Pamela Crowley (Florida)]

Is anybody fully familiar with the lender/client receiving end willing to state what the security settings are on whatever it is they receive?

 

[DWiley]

would you consider the Alamode-provided warning to be inaccurate? misleading?

Yes, I do. As I said before, that "warning" was crafted at a time when AlaMode was developing an alternative standard. It was crafted to strike fear, and that's exactly what it has done.

I can provide more specific details later, but right now I have to look at a house or two.