So latest wth requirements for a CC order: Average lot size; average GLA; median price. This for an order on a 2-family. Our MLS doesn't put sq ft in the listing on multi-families...each one needs to be looked up separately. Average lot size? No way to figure that out easily either.

Six days ago I submitted an order. I had a correction request right away which actually ended up being somebody on their end misreading something. we laughed it off and in the order went. Six days later I just received a rejection notice. I did the original order in one day, here is part of the email I just received:
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there is a character limit ( 4,000 characters including spaces), for the combined sections: Neighborhood , Commentary, and Estimate of Valley. If the combined character total exceeds 4,000 we are unable to properly deliver the report to the client. We are currently working on a fix for this issue. In the meantime , can you please edit your comments to the include the most pertinent information and resubmit the report. Please file is past due so a quick response would be greatly appreciated

We got one last week (I think for MSV) because all of the ages (subject and comps) were 111. They thought we just put in some numbers to fill the space.

In our area, if the property was built before 1900 but there is no proof of the actual age (such as a dated photo or old deed) the counties list the property as built in 1900. Since this is now 2011, every one is listed as 111 years old.

Never had this problem with 108 or 109 or 100 years old.

Pa, Did you have the MLS sheet uploaded to confirm the age if it was MSV?

J~

Of course - which proves they don't get read anyway

Did this happen on 1/11/2011 ?

Not true not true... I always read the MLS sheets

Actually, there are two types....One that don't read and the other one that can't read. I seem to draw more on the second one......lol.

In my experience, I've learned that unless I'm not busy, I put Main Street on a side street.
The repetition of copying and pasting MLS remarks, uploading tax sheets and MLS sheets so some cublcle dweller has 3 different kinds of backup usually drives me nuts.

I got a clarification request from CC, today. They said. "We have a prior that indicates subject with a higher value. Could you review comps A and C from prior and indicate why your comps are superior?".......Ok, gang........hang onto your hats......you're going to love this one. Subject is a 1,300 GLA condo......nothing fancy. The comps from the prior were duets, located on a golf course, age restricted community. Does anbybody find this strange or is it just me? I wonder how he arrived at a 40% higher value?...lol.

Probably related to his $40 paycheck for the BPO.

I'm getting kickbacks like Candy's more and more. I Think their using some kind of database that only shows living are and price, without regards to things like distance, neighborhoods or common sense.
Got one yesterday on a 120 year old house, comps they sent were built in the 1970's

Don't get me wrong.........I have no issues with CC QA. They're just doing their job. The difference being is that they're getting paid while we talk on the phone......my meter quit running when I sent the order in, the first time. They need to start a "weed and feed" program. Weed out the poor vendors and increase orders to good ones. I can always dream......lol

I got an order today...at my usual fee...from ORT, who may have had a newbie or someone who doesn't care much. It is a second opinion. Subject is a manufactured home. First agent used all stick-built homes for comps.

Don't you think these companies would figure out it costs them more in the long run if it ain't done right the first time?

Still they send out the blast orders for peanuts. So who takes them? Someone whose work needs to be done over, at least that's the way it looks to me.

It's interesting to me that you mention that this week.

The very tempting iMS Order I was encouraged to do a few days ago involves a Manufactured (Modular, not Mobile) Home sitting on a Full Basement Walk-Out Foundation with a Barn which has a Commercial Dog Kennel in the Basement and a 1400 SF Rental Unit for Human Habitation on the Main and 2nd Floors.

I told them that I have had to go out in excess of a 20 Mile Radius to find Comps . . . . and even then, they were NOT Modular Homes; and we have hardly any Mobile Sales due to the lack of PMI.

So a little bit of Commercial and a little 2 Family with a little bit of Manufactured thrown in for good measure makes it a basic "Can of Worms" for valuation.

I might still do it; but I have them 1st checking with their Client "Chase" to find out how they want it handled so that we're on the same page BEFORE I even go out there.

I mention it here because the Listing Agent, in her Wisdom, described this one as "Stick-Built Off-Site". The Town's Land Records call it "Modular".

Some Mills don't distinguish between Modulars and Mobiles. Others recognize Modular to be more akin to On-Site. They don't get assigned a UCC Number or a Bill of Sale. PMI Companies usually treat them as Stick Built. I don't know anything about iMS except what a few of you have told me.

It's only because I ran into this mess with FARVV in 2009 that I'm less than enthusiastic about doing it again for iMS. I haven't invested any time or serious money yet.