 Commercial Appraisal Productivity Seminar
Do you know what you make an hour? Many appraisers just complete the reports on their desk, not setting and obtaining their production potential.The top appraisers in the country out produce 80% of the "typical" appraisers (by a wide margin) and retain high quality report product. Find out how.Join us for our 3-Hour Productivity Seminar and learn the production secrets of the best commercial appraisers. Time management, office efficiency tips, internal systems, leveraging applications and technology solutions. |
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Are You Current?
DataComp Version 6 is now available. Please contact 813.221.0703 or Sarah for further details. |
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Additional Services Available
Need more custom fields in DataComp© but don't have the time to set them up? We now offer service to set up your Custom Tabs for you. The price varies depending on how many fields you want configured.
Don't forget...you can also contact us about setting up your DataComp© Custom Outputs for both Word and Excel.
Interested? Please contact Sarah Razai at 813.221.0703. She will be happy to help. |
YouConnect© is a web-based Appraisal and Vendor Management solution enabling institutions to automate and steamline this part of their business, while satisfying federal and state examination and auditing requirements.
For more information, please visit our website, call 813.349.2700, or email Sunda. |
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Additional Services Available
Too busy to create your own Custom Templates? We're here to help.
We now offer services to create your Custom Templates for use with our appraisal writing software, EDGE.
Interested? Please contact Sarah Razai at 813.221.0703. She will be happy to help. |
For more information on RealWired!© Products and Services, please visit our website, call 813.349.2700, or email Sunda. |
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APPRAISAL BEST PRACTICES
by Jeff Hicks, President
The Dohring Group/realwired!©
We have been gathering best practice tips for over ten years from the best appraisers in the country. Now we'd like to share them with you. |
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Ethics - The New Currency
As my high school coach used to say, "Give me 110% or don't show up". Oftentimes, this sage advice came with 90-decibel drill sergeant screaming (and spitting)...an effective training technique for skinny teenagers.
Obviously, Coach was talking about giving maximum effort, but at the core, he was also talking about character. All Coach cared about was that you gave your maximum all the time, no matter what. A true coach and leader wants to see all athletes progress, no matter what their level.
In appraising, character and ethics is about 99% of your value. The other 1% is your appraisal competency in arriving at a credible market value estimate. Don't believe me? I guarantee that any time an appraisal is seriously questioned, it comes from a position of lack of trust. I know if I am asked to review an appraisal, the first question I ask is, "Who wrote the report?". If it is one of my peers that I consider to possess strong moral character, I take that into consideration as a huge positive. Conversely, I will aggressively analyze a report if it is somebody I know that has the ethics of folks like Governor Rod Blagojevich, Bernie Madoff or Governor Mark Sanford.
A good chunk of appraisal regulations (USPAP) speaks to ethics, specifically to maintain a high level of public trust in professional appraisal practice. Public trust? So appraising is not just about price per square foot and cap rates? It would be nice in the current world of blind appraisal bids, to have a checkbox for ethics and not just low price and quick delivery times.
If you are an appraiser and don't have strong ethics, you likely are not reading this and if you are, no USPAP course will fix your defective character. So when it comes to selecting an appraisal firm, choose the one with the most ethics. You will never go wrong.
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Changing the Windows DPI Setting
If your DataComp screens are not displaying correctly (the bottom tabs are not visible, the sale price only displays two digits), this is an indication that the DPI setting is incorrect. Follow the steps here to resolve the issue. |
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DataComp now has PDF Functionality!
DataComp, Version 6 is now available with the ability to print attached PDF documents into your comparables. For those of you who currently have Version 6, please click here for instructions.Contact Adam at 813-349-2700 for more information on this exciting new feature! |
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The New EDGE is Here!
We've updated our EDGE report writing software to make it even better! Drag and drop keywords, PDF functionality and backend database conversion to SQL Express 2008 are just some of the features we've added to make it faster, easier and more robust. Click here for a complete list of updates.
If you are already an EDGE user, email Sarah or call 813.221.0703 to schedule your installation.
If you have yet to experience the EDGE technology, email Adam or call 813.349.2700 for more information. |
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Windows 7
 Are you currently a Windows 7 user or planning to be? If so, you will need to upgrade to our latest DataCompVersion 6. |
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Your DataComp Data is Important! Traditional back up programs may not be saving your data. Ensure that your data is safe by using the DataComp backup function. Instructions can be found here. |
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Tech Support Current?
How confident are you in an in-house appraiser fixing your SQL database?Unfortunately, computers and servers are not as reliable as we would like, so keep your Tech Support current in case the unfortunate happens. |
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