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Worst UW Stip I have Ever had

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I got a better one. Did a job with a small/medium sized tree planted close enough to the house to block it a bit. No matter what angle I shot the front of the house from the tree still blocked a small portion of the home. The stip I got requested that I "provide a better front photo w/o the tree." After laughing for 5 minutes I copied the image to my paint program and erased the tree from the photo, then I used the pencil editor and filled in the earased area with a stick house you make in 1st grade art class. I sent it in but in an attachment to the email. Never got another call about it.

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I got a better one. Did a job with a small/medium sized tree planted close enough to the house to block it a bit. No matter what angle I shot the front of the house from the tree still blocked a small portion of the home. The stip I got requested that I "provide a better front photo w/o the tree." After laughing for 5 minutes I copied the image to my paint program and erased the tree from the photo, then I used the pencil editor and filled in the earased area with a stick house you make in 1st grade art class. I sent it in but in an attachment to the email. Never got another call about it.

Hilarious!!:rof: :rof: :rof:
 
here is the photo i sent in (hope i attached correct)

if there is not photo i will try again.
 

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I must say your artistic skills are superb!!:clapping:
 
I am in trouble . . .

I have done it the same way you did it for over 20 years . . .also included an extra rear picture (at angle) and opposite street scene in addendum. Some where, I remember reading that is how to do it -- maybe VA, FHA or USDA regs.
 
My favorite was a stip to explain and provide a cost to cure for the large crack in the rear photo. I didn't remember a big crack? It was the shadow of the overhead cable line.
 
I got one today to add 5 more comps and a pending sale. This is in a rural area where the 3 sales and listing I used were the only ones similar. I emailed the lender back and wrote that the request was beyond adsurdity. If they insist, they would be 20 to 30 miles away with location adjustment and that my fee would be $600.

Now they only want a pending sale and an addendum that there ARE no more sales in the small market area. There is a new pending sale and I will provide that and an addendum for free.
 
I got a better one. Did a job with a small/medium sized tree planted close enough to the house to block it a bit. No matter what angle I shot the front of the house from the tree still blocked a small portion of the home. The stip I got requested that I "provide a better front photo w/o the tree." After laughing for 5 minutes I copied the image to my paint program and erased the tree from the photo, then I used the pencil editor and filled in the earased area with a stick house you make in 1st grade art class. I sent it in but in an attachment to the email. Never got another call about it.

You should have changed the appraisal report from "as is" to "subject to" tree in front yard of subject property being cut down per lender's guidelines.

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I've got one client that requires:

Wide pic of entire site on table of contents pic;
2 exterior subject pic pages so you can do the 4 corners and both directions on the street;
6 minimum interior pics: kitchen, living and one bath, the rest my choice.

:shrug:
 
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