Appraiser Covid Survey Results April 2020

Survey Results April 2020

April 1 Wednesday Facebook Poll results:

Doing interiors    142 – 57%

Turn down interiors  80 – 32%

Transiting away.    28 – 11%

Total         250

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Bradford software customers – Started April 30, last Monday

I took this survey.

Q1 Have you been been accepting new appraisal assignments? (check all that apply) (1,087 responses)

Responses

– I do Desktops using the new COVID-19 Flexibility Desktop addendum 29.35% 319

– I do Drive-bys using the new COVID-19 Flexibility Exterior addendum 49.22% 535

– I do traditional 1004s with interior and exterior inspections 65.96% 717

– Not doing appraisals during the pandemic crisis 8.92% 97

Q2 Did you know lenders will accept a desktop or drive-by in lieu of a traditional 1004 with interior inspection?

Yes 83.90% 912

No 16.10% 175

Q4 Would you complete an appraisal that included interior photos

completed by a homeowner if you could verify the photos were taken

inside the home?

Yes 72.13% 784

No 27.87% 303

Many thanks to Jeff Bradford for this data!!

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Meet Widget O'Rourke – our new Appraisal Today cat team member!!

I am not sending our my Regular Thursday email newsletter this week. Just some fun photos of Widget O’Rourke!! More info after the photos. 
 
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Trying to supervise the humans. They can never understand what I am trying to say!!

Exercise time – getting bored!

Waiting for my human chaffeur. I’m ready to go!!

I’m not sure about this neighborhood!!

Is that a mouse??
   
Checking out the overgrown landscaping for any rodents…

2 stories or 3 stories?

Checking for any foundation mouse holes

Measuring the house. The human makes me take the “dumb end” of the tape. I should be on the smart end!!

Finally back home. Nap time!!
More info:
Age: 5 months
Birthday: July 29, 2015
Weight: 4 pounds
Breed: Burmese
Language: Cattish with Siamese accent
Personality: very friendly, likes to travel and play, talks a lot, not afraid of anything except skateboards
About cats, cars and leashes
Cats are very easy to train. A popular method for all pets is clicker training. Just google it. Leash/harness training is best if started when a kitten. I brought Widget home October 31 (3 months old) and started leash and harness training the next week. She learned it within a day and I started taking her on “walks” in the back yard and on the sidewalk on my street.
She did not like being in the car inside the cat carrier. Cats like to look out. Finally figured out how to get her to ride in the car – purchased a raised seat with an attached leash.
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In my 20’s I took several long trips with my cat in a van I converted (traveled 3-6 months at a time). The cat was not on a leash and harness. Went in and out of the van. When I was backpacking she followed along running in the bushes. I am finally traveling with my cat again!!!
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I am not taking her out on inspections for now… she is very easily distracted ;> She loves traveling to take comp photos.