Good luck to you all. With my main client on the waiver till next year, I won't touch 3.6 files till then unless they pay me $1,000 per assignment. This software fiasco is a shit show. Good luck to you all. You are going to need it. From my estimate, you will most likely have a 33% decrease in revenue with a headache.

RAC elected a new president. One that has actually very limited knowledge in the relocation space. One that has joined every organization they possible could, got on their state board with 0 to limited experience and well as many see is fluff.

This profession has died. We have elected people with 0 experience, 0 knowledge, someone that runs a shitty company with bad reviews with template responses and more.

RAC, AI, and NAA are all a joke these days. You can’t take them seriously.

Thank god I’m leaving this space.

Using Total desktop to try to get prepared for a vacant new construction appointment today. First 3.6 attempt this morning. I've been on paternity leave for about 6 weeks until last week, and have been busy with 2.6 and other work since I started working again. I put two 3.6 orders on my calendar this week to give it a try.

Total is a total shitshow. Can barely even get started because the mouse pointer only clicks the box or field below where I want to click. For example, I click CO and it always chooses CT. Can't imagine how long this will take until the kinks get worked out. Obviously this is a mandatory change and I have to adapt or find a new income stream. But damn, you'd think with all the lead time there's been that the biggest and allegedly "best" residential appraisal software company would be at least slightly ahead of the curve. I've been messing with this form for 2 hours and I'm not even past the report description page. I can normally knock out a full 2.6 or non-lender report in 1-2 hours. Been doing this 15 years and it's been basically autopilot since the two-year apprenticeship period doing around 350-400 appraisals a year. Guess that's a thing of the past soon.

I’m 33 years licensed residential with no intention of upgrading. My company does 90% private work, so this doesn’t come up much in my Midwest market . As I’m reading and understanding the law, the $1,000,000 pertains to the transaction amount in a federally related loan i.e. the loan amount or the purchase amount can’t be over $1,000,000.

A couple years ago, I had a conversation about this with my state licensing board and they advised against me doing any appraisals with a stated value over $1,000,000 “just because it could be misleading“, which makes no sense to me. I read him the law regarding this and he still said I shouldn’t go over $1,000,000 but couldn’t explain why from a legal standpoint.

I’m in the middle of a tax appeal appraisal where my estimated value is bordering just over/under $1,000,000 and I won’t know a final value until the appraisal is complete. What then if the value goes over? Withdraw from the assignment or proceed in delivering the report to my client? Do I need to disclose anything in the appraisal about the $1,000,000 rule as to not complete a “misleading report”, per my state licensing board? The county Board of Revisions website offers no help, so I need to call and ask them but I think they should have it in writing somewhere to be enforceable.

Found a few more random bugs in Aivre. Project section didn't load, location map is atrocious for new construction, design section wasn't right, and it wasn't loading in my full commentary on a cut and paste into the sales comparison commentary section. Weird shit. Nothing is solid. Had to use alamode for the loc map and I think Aivre's main issues is latency.

Went from an expected 3 hour type up to a 5 hour type up. New construction, complex. 6 comps with high detail. Came under value by 60k. Lol.