Saturday, February 9, 2013
Saturday, January 19, 2013
Appraisal Software Market
Safi Haidary
Real Estate Appraisal Principles,
Practices, and Report Writing v.2
1/14/2013
Appraisal Software
Market
There is five main aspects to compare appraisal software. While every
appraisal software can create an appraisal report, I believe that
cost, form filing user friendliness, office management, and mobility
are the main features I want to compare when shopping for an
appraisal software. Even though there are a lot of available
appraisal software in the market, I decided to focus my essay on two
appraisal software - Wintotal and ACI.
ACI2010
UAD that includes ACI2010™ License, Appraisal Forms Library, Order Tracking,
Photo Management, Comps Database, GPAR™ Forms Series, ACI sketch, Digital
Signature, Free PDF Creator, 500 Choice Credit, Market Conditions Addendum
eService, Bing™ Maps, FloodInsights, Pictometry, PDF Import, AppraiserBASE¸
with services of toll free support, eService delivery, Already, and ACI
software update is $899 dollars. For the same price of $899, Alamode offers
WinTOTAL Enterprise which contains formfiller TOTAL 2011, over 500 forms,
automatic flood and census data, unlimited location maps, integrated comps and
images data base, TOTAL Sketch, Xsite, and Xsellerate integration. I tried a
lot to see if I can find any information regarding any kind of toll
free support for WinTotal Enterprise, but it was not specifically
mentioned any where in their website. Because I am new to appraising,
I don't know most of the terms that are used as their software
details. Since the package prices are both the same, It looks like there is a
big competition between these two different appraisal software.
Speaking of competition between Wintotal and ACI2010, form filling is one of
the good features of appraisal software that via access of a web based data
base like MLS we can easily import desired data to our form and apply
to our appraisal report. Avoiding typing errors and saving typing time is two
of the advantages of a form filling software. As per their website
advertisement, both Wintotal and ACI2010 argue that their software has excellent form filling features.
When it comes to using any kind
of software, user friendliness is a big aspect of any software. Since appraisal software involves a lot of data entry and process, user friendliness plays a
big role in making it easy to use the software. If an appraisal software is not
user friendly, appraiser quickly become bored and it takes a lot of time and
confusion to finish the report. At the same time, if a software is user
friendly, an appraiser easily finish a report. From my experience, I
could download a free version of WinTOTAL and over all I liked it. But for
PC requirements purposes I could not download ACI2010 to see how it
works.
WinTOTAL looks like to have unhappy clients as far as office management is
concerned. Based on the researches I did, I found out that there are
frustrated clients because of WinTOTAL’s office management If you
are interested to read the posts yourself, please click
the continuing link, http://appraisersforum.com/showthread.php?t=107977. Though ACI365 is a
very complete package of office management. The only downfall is that you have
to pay a separate $299 to buy the software.
Recently, appraisal software makers are competing to add mobility into their
software. As a nature of appraisal process, appraiser is supposed to
take sketches photos and extra note of subject property.
That is why software companies create applications so that
sketches, photos, and additional information from subject property is taken
with mobile devices and then uploaded to the report upon arrival to office. As
per
“http://www.aciweb.com/blogs/press/archive/2012/05/14/aci-announces-mobile-technology-for-appraisal-software-users.aspx”
, ACI announced its mobile agreement and availability for ACI
software users to be able to update information from subject property to report
in office. WinTotal also
has mobile applications for mobile devices to get information from the subject
property while inspecting the subject.
In conclusion, both ACI and WinTOTAL has all five features. Even though initial
cost of both competitive packages are the same, ACI will cost you more if you
want to add office management capability. Both software has form
filling capabilities though WinTOTAL’s clients look to be unhappy of
WinTOTAL’s office management capability, but both software has mobility as far
as connection to tablets and mobiles are concerned. At the end, I would say
that ACI is better for its office management and WinTOTAl for its price.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Summerization of ”Grant and Lee: a study in contrast”
Mr. Wightman
English104
01.29.2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
One of the Factors that cause one choose a religion
Our native language, culture, specific manners, habits and skills are all generally learnt and practiced with our family. I believe learning religion is one of the items from the list of all what we learn from our family in our life too. So, one of the main factors behind one choosing a religion in his/her lifetime is family.
When you look around, you usually find people with strong faiths whose families are very strong in practicing what ever they believe. I don’t mean that all the people with strong faiths have parents with strong practice. We can find people who have just converted to a religion and they have a strong faith or they practice it in a very good way. But, most of the people you see have their parents believes. As an example: Countries with Muslim parents have the most Muslim Children. Countries with Hindu Parents have the most Hindu Children and even if parents believe in a specific creed of a religion children generally follow their parents. In Islam we believe as its narrated from Mohammad (SAW) that: Each child is born in a state of "Fitrah", then his parents make him a Jew, Christian or a Zoroastrian, the way an animal gives birth to a normal offspring.
As a conclusion we can say that family is one of the major factor of a child’s future. So, we should try our best to control our acts and habits because believe it or not it plays a remarkable role in our child’s future.
Las Positas College
One thing i like about Las Positas College is its location. Being in the hills and close to so many cities adds to benefits of Las Positas College. having not so many residential houses around is another good thing about Las Positas College. In Afghanistan, I used to study at Kabul University which is located in the heart of crowded and noisy Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. I always love to study in a quiet are and spend my breaks looking at green hills. That is why I like the location of Las Positas College.
First impression looking at a random resume
My First Impression looking at the resume was negative. When you look at the education part of the resume you read Art and Environmental Biology. But, the experience part of the resume talks about maintenance worker and technician. I believe that it will be very effective if our education part of the resume matches the work experience part.
"Itch of the haydust..."
"Itch of the haydust in the sweaty shirt and shoes." In this part of the peom by the poet " Gary Snyber" uses the word itch and explains how the haydust and sweat itchs. To kind of make us imagine what he means. What it adds to the poem is to make it more understandable. Some people easily understand by reading, but there are people who need more than one sense of them involved in order to understand something more.
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