Innovations in technology have been making life easier for everyone. Bank accounts, navigation, weather and much more is now available at your fingertips. Real estate appraisers have also discovered several new applications and technologies to increase their productivity. So, in this article, we will look at 10 such apps that increase the productivity of real estate appraisers and help them complete their appraisal tasks quickly.
1. Coast Go: It’s a decent app designed specifically for the real estate industry that provides property information, analytics, and demographics, plus contact information for property owners, if available.
2. Dual maps by Channel map: This app combines data from Bing Maps, Google Street View, and Google Maps and creates a single image using those maps. These maps can later be integrated into appraisal reports or other documents.
3. TOTAL for Mobile by in fashion: TOTAL is an app that wirelessly syncs your photos, sketches, and other data from your smartphone or tablet to your PC.
4. UAD Reference by Revival Applications: This app is basically a dictionary that provides definitions of various appraisal related words and abbreviations. The easy-to-navigate format of this app helps appraisers, real estate agents, and mortgage professionals complete an appraisal.
5. MileBug: This app keeps track of your mileage from point A to point B for a specific purpose. Using it, you can also calculate IRS deductions on your device. The app can also create HTML-based and Excel-compatible reports that can then be transferred to your computer.
6. Phoenix Mobile: This is my favorite app and by far the best app for appraisers. It is a data collection application that has been specifically designed for appraisers. You can do many tasks with this app. For example:
- You can use UAD-compliant forms to collect and report data,
- You can store the responses of the form you use frequently,
- You can attach photos to reports and sketches,
- You can create PDF files with it,
- You can store audio files, texts and handwritten notes on it,
- And even better, you can access it on both desktop and mobile for a better workflow. The complete user manual available in this app is also very helpful in navigating and discovering the features of this app.
7. Dropbox: There is not much to say about this app, since you are most likely already familiar with its use. For those who do not know, I would like to tell you that it is the mobile application of the Dropbox file storage service that allows you to save files and access them anywhere: on your mobile phone, on your tablet or on your PC. Use it to store image files and other important appraisal documents and reduce the paper burden when you go out for a property appraisal.
8.Google Maps: It goes without saying that Google Maps helps you navigate from point A to point B. But it can also help you increase your productivity as an appraiser by giving you the facilities to download maps for offline access, provide local information about places, etc. us.
9. Joke: Draw on your maps captured from Google Maps and highlight points of attention by circling or pointing an arrow at them. Extremely useful if you want to create a large map for your evaluation report on the site itself. Sign in with your Evernote account and sync your Skitch data to your office computer if Skitch is open there. If not, no problem as it will be saved to the cloud and will be synced the next time you open the app on your PC.
10.Evernote: Most of you may already know him: he’s the modern pioneer of “note-taking.” Cut down on site paperwork and use Evernote to make notes instead of paper. These notes will be simultaneously synced to your Evernote account and saved to the cloud. And when you open Evernote on PC, they’re also available right there via sync. Since Skitch is also an Evernote product, you can easily combine maps and images created by Skitch with your Evernote notes.
I hope these 10 apps help you increase your productivity as a Real Estate Appraiser.