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Learn How To Use Your iPhone 4 or 4S For Real Estate Video Marketing!

http://realestateappraisertips.info/ — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:32:46 +0000

http://www.myflipcamerasecrets.com/ – Learn How To Use Your iPhone 4 or 4S For Real Estate Video Marketing!

Inside the supercharged iPhone Video Hero …

Professional Video based training viewable 24/7 on Mac/Pc and iPhone/iPad.

Easy to follow, step by step learning. Follow along as I make videos in front of you with real biz people.

Quality Sells! I show you how to get the maximum quality out of your iPhone’s video camera. (No need for a big bucks camcorder!)

Keep your viewers focussed. How to shoot rock steady videos without a tripod.

Bad Audio kills sales. Revealed: The microphone you already own but might not realise!

The ‘secret’ accessory that will allow you to use your iPhone with external microphones AND monitor the sound.

How to film an excellent vlog, opt-in or sales page video that will stand out a mile.

How to shoot magnetic customer testimonials to win you more business. (You get my cheat sheet – the questions you MUST ask your clients)

How to make a high value Video Ad (worth $700) for you, or a client, in minutes using an App that edits your videos for you! (Save a tonne of time editing!)

How to light on a budget and make your videos sparkle.

How to create that famous Apple white background look using your iPhone to get your message across crystal clear. (Download by own lighting plan)

Step by step guide to some of the best and most creative Video apps on the market. (Don’t waste precious time with the rest)

Quality Handpicked Music to download and use in your videos, on Youtube or on your website. (Requires a credit)

Easy editing guide to iMovie on your iPhone. (Works with an iPad too!)

Insanely useful accessories guide including tripod ready cases, lighting systems and microphones, so you don’t waste precious money buying bad stuff!

Over 2 hours of fact filled content and rising!

Click Here if you want to harness the Power of Online Video!

Crunch! Look at what I made with my iPhone! (So can you!)

Fannie Mae UAD MLS Import Software is here for WCA and SFREP Home Appraisal Software Customers!

http://realestateappraisertips.info/ — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:59:47 +0000

http://www.realestateappraisertips.info/ - Fannie Mae UAD MLS Import Software is here for WCA and SFREP Home Appraisal Software Customers!

UAD MLS Importer Software is here….for WCA and SFREP Customers! This is what I’ve been beta testing and am loving it. I no longer groan when I receive a UAD Appraisal Order.

Watch this short video: http://bit.ly/uNBmZV

The link to find out more is http://wca-inc.com/Grab-It.php

Video Sales Letter for WordPress Is Dead Easy To Setup

http://realestateappraisertips.info/ — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 10:56:01 +0000

http://www.wordpressvideosalesletter.info/ – Video Sales Letter for WordPress Using Mike Stewart’s WordPress Video Sales Letter To Build Trust By Employing Video

Bill Cobb, a home appraiser in Baton Rouge, is using this valuable software package to produce Video Sales Letters and Video Landing Pages (and/or Video Introduction Pages) to the valuation products he offers the local public. An example of one of Bill’s sites is below. To Find Out More, Click on the image below.

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Why Do Fannie Mae Appraisal Forms Include Adjustment Grid for View?

http://realestateappraisertips.info/ — Wed, 18 May 2011 10:47:52 +0000

http://www.realestateappraisertips.info/ – Why Do Fannie Mae Appraisal Forms Include Adjustment Grid for “View”?

Washington State Appraiser, Dave Towne, recently offered tremendous value to home appraisers by providing a copy of a list of the Top 12 FDIC Appraisal Deficiencies, see list below. In case you are not aware, the FDIC, in order recoup loses, is filing suit against AMCs (Appraisal Management Companies) and individual appraisers for questionable appraisal work that could have led to mortgage defaults. FDIC is seeking hunreds of millions of dollars in these suits.

Dave said, “Appraisers….

The FDIC has recently named a major nationwide AMC in a suit involving hundreds of defaulted properties**, claiming the AMC was deficient in the way they reviewed original appraisal reports. The suit has not gone to trial yet.

Included with the suit legal documents was this list that shows issues of concern in the original appraisal reports.

This would be a good list to use to review your own reports prior to submittal.

I personally found much satisfaction in #4 above about the applying “not reasonable, large unsupported adjustments for intangibles such as view, etc.” See this water front lot photo below.

My reply to Dave follows….

Thank you so very much, Dave!!!

I LOVE YOUR #4, about applying non-supportable adjustments for “view”. There is no such adjustment and I don’t understand why FNMA even has that in the grid. Dave, when a buyer closes on a lake lot, do they have “2″ closings, one for the site value and another separate closing for the lake view? No they don’t….and that would be insane wouldn’t it? There is no such thing as a supportable “View” adjustment. The entire value in a lot is the “Site” itself and all of the attributes of that site: land, size, view, historic trees, etc.. It all makes up the “Site Value”. And, based on what you’ve sent us, I’m not the only appraiser or regulatory agency who polices appraisers who thinks this way!

Resources For Using Photosynth 360-Degree Photos For Real Estate Marketing

http://realestateappraisertips.info/ — Thu, 12 May 2011 13:20:11 +0000

http://www.realestateappraisertips.info/ – Resources For Using Photosynth For Real Estate Marketing

This morning on Facebook, Lake Charles Real Estate Agent Marilyn Boudreaux, asked me if I had heard watched the TBWS Video of Photosynth. I inboxed her with this message below.

“Hi Marilyn,

Yes, Bryan at REBliss.comwrote about it here Photosynth for iPhone. Create 360-Degree Interactive Panoramic Real Estate Photos with real estate examples:

AND so did Joe Manausa with Century 21 FL did here, iPhone App For Real Estate: Photosynth Is One Hot Tool

TheRESource.TV. The important thing I saw yesterday about Photosynth was this video below suggesting that Agents Use QR Code with Photosynth togther, to have the entire home shot and be the first Agent in your Town to do so. Click Below To View Video.

NOTE: I have emailed the Agent Below, Bill Garrison, and asked of Gary and Ryan to provide us the link to that actual Agent’s Photosynth so we can view for ourselves what’s possible and learn from it. I think that once we see what Bill has been able to accomplish, this will be a huge help to us users. If they respond, I will post the link.

Marilyn, at this time and based on my limited use, I can see shooting Front and Rear and doing a couple of larger rooms, but not the entire home. I asked Bryan at REBliss.com about this and he said,

“I have created several photosynth photos. You would have to make one photosynth photo for each room of the house. I guess the video is a little misleading, they have all of the interactive photos on the right side of the computer screen and maybe the way they edited the video made it look like one photo was touring the entire house, when they were actual clicking on each photo for each room of the house.

I agree with you, a photo of a few interior rooms and maybe a front and rear photo as well.

I tried to make a photosynth photo of a small kitchen the other day, the program had a much harder time with a small area (the kitchen cabinets were a few feet from me on each side of me) vs make a photosynth photo of a large living room. I tried 3 times and couldn’t get a good photosynth photo of the kitchen.”

Marilyn, I certainly think Photosynth has a place in real estate marketing. It’s clearly up to us to find on our own the uses and limitations. I don’t think it will do a whole home, but exteriors and 2-3 rooms would be really nice. And, WordPress makes this easier with being able to add Photosynth code where needed based on Bryan and Joe’s examples from their post.

Hope this helps!

PLEASE, if you employ Photosynth, please send me links to how you’re using it. “

New SnapMount Tripod Mount For iPhone 4 User Video Always On Internet In Auto

http://realestateappraisertips.info/ — Mon, 02 May 2011 02:32:54 +0000

http://www.accuratevg.com/ - New SnapMount Tripod Mount For iPhone 4 User Video For Always On Tech Savvy Agent. Bill Cobb Appraiser recently began using the new SnapMount Tripod Mount For iPhone 4 and loves it. With his older plan, Bill has unlimited always on data. http://snapmountforiphone.com/

NOTE: The Advantage Of SmartMount is that when the iPhone 4 is mounted, ALL ports and features are available, such as power connection, volume controls, headset, etc..

In this video, Bill discusses the use of his 5000 watt 3 plugin inverter for power, Sunpak Clamp Pod Pro from B&H Photo Video Dot Com clamped to his Jotto Desk.

VIDEO

What Snapmount Allows Me To Do:
Listen to Always On Chris Smith Tech Savvy Agent Via iPhone iPod Feature
Use Google Talk To Communicate With Office Immediately Good Talk App
Use Maps For Real Estate
Check Email
Check Facebook

SnapMount would also be very helpful for more stable photograpy and shooting video tours when combined with the HDHat.com Video Stabilizer Bar.

Any questions, please inbox me.

Dave Towne: Survey Results How Appraisers Report Site Size, FNMA Requirement Effective 9/1/2011

http://realestateappraisertips.info/ — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:46:36 +0000

http://www.realestateappraisertips.info/ – Dave Towne: Survey Results On How Appraisers Report Site Size, New FNMA Requirements on 9/1/2011

Appraisers……

Over the weekend, I asked for your input as to how you report Site Size in the Fannie Form grid. This graph represents the results of your responses through Monday night 2/7/11, from appraisers in many parts of the US:

I asked this question because effective 9/01/2011, Fannie/Freddie will require Site Size for any site less than ONE ACRE to be reported as Square Feet, NOT Acres (or portion) ….. and any site of 1 Acre or more to be reported as Acres! This is for any conventional loan sold to them, reported on the 1004 and 2055 Forms.

UNLESS appraisers around the nation climb on Fannie’s back and explain how crazy this will be, and ask (politely) that this new poor requirement be modified so that site sizes are reported in a consistent manner in the report.

EXAMPLE: Subject is in a small urban area, on a .82 Acre site. Three Comps are a mix of site sizes, less than an acre and more than an acre…say up to 1.5 acres….because that’s all the sales found that are even remotely comparable in terms of GLA/Age of the properties. (This is a REAL situation in my area.)

So your grid will look like this:

Subj. Comp 1 Comp 2 Comp 3

35719 sf 20038 sf 1.1 ac 1.5 ac

(.82 Acre) (.46 Acre)

[No commas can be used, and only ‘sf’ can indicate Sq. Ft.]

[Acre must be reported as ‘ac’ – with nothing following that]

Can you imagine the U/W’s head scratching! You’re going to have to include an entire paragraph to explain this requirement, and then explain how you arrived at the site size adjustments (which you should do anyway, but now you will have to explain how you converted to Ac or SF before making the site adjustment).

Most county assessor records in our area, and other parts of the US report Site Size in terms of Acres – or a decimal portion thereof. Therefore, you will have to convert that Acre number to a Square Foot number for the report, further slowing down report writing. (I developed a Conversion Table which I will give to any appraiser for FREE who wants it … just e-mail me.)

FURTHER EXPLANATION: “Both” is represented in nearly 15% of responses. Some Appraisers told me they use an entry like .82 Ac/35,719 sf in the grid. Other appraisers said they currently use Square Foot for any property less than an acre, and Acres for 1+ acres (I don’t understand why!). And some appraisers said they use SF for FHA reports, believing that SF is ‘required’ by HUD/FHA – in fact they accept either per the 4150.2 manual but expect consistency in the report …. and use Acres for conventional reports.

Those appraisers who explained “Both” also stated they NEVER mix Acres with Square Foot in reports as my example shows ……… as Fannie will require as of 9/1/2011!

MY PERSONAL BELIEF: All reports should use Acre (or decimal portion), regardless of site size. MLS listings are reported that way, assessor records are that way, property owners think and talk in terms of ACRES …. not “my property is 32,670 s/f.” It’s much easier to say “3/4 of an acre.” It’s also what a majority of appraisers are doing now – overwhelmingly.

Thanks for your responses!

Dave Towne, Towne Appraisals

Mount Vernon, WA

360-708-1196

and

Appraiser Education Service

How To Create Awesomer Web Videos…Without a Video Camera: How To Screencast Like A Pro

http://realestateappraisertips.info/ — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:33:03 +0000

How To Create Killer Web Videos…Without a Video Camera

Screen capture video can be great. You just record what’s on your computer screen. You don’t have to worry about video cameras, lighting or even what you look like.

And they can be just as powerful…sometimes even more powerful…than regular on-camera video. But screen capture video can also be confusing, intimidating and frustrating. For most people, their screencast videos come out looking fuzzy, distorted, hard to see, hard to hear…or…all of the above.

But the good news is you don’t need to worry about those things anymore. That’s because now you can learn how to make absolutely killer screencast videos in just a few hours.
And there’s no experience required.

How is this possible? It’s through an amazing new training course from one of the Internet’s top web video experts. This course is 100% web video based.

All you have to do is open your browser, play the videos and watch as you’re shown step by step how to create dazzling web videos from scratch.

But you know what? The best way to see how powerful this new training actually is…is to simply watch an amazing 77 second video that tells you all about it.

You’ve really got to see this video. And you’ve really got to check out this new course, if you want a dead-simple way to create killer web videos.

Here’s the link to the video. Seriously, you’ve got to check this out now:

Real Estate Appraiser Tips: How To Straighten A Photo Free With Windows Live Photo Gallery!

http://realestateappraisertips.info/ — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:18:11 +0000

http://www.realestateappraisertips.info/ – Real Estate Appraiser Tips: How To Straighten A Photo Free With Windows Live Photo Gallery!

In this video, Home Appraiser Bill Cobb shows how he straightened a photo for a blog post. The video and before and after photos are below.

or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QNtI2ol2mI

Windows Live Photo Gallery allows one to share photos and videos online, find the photos you’re looking for and make photos look great! And, it’s FREE!

Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 Description: “Import photos from your camera, organize them into albums, and edit them so they look their best. Use powerful photo tools to create stunning panoramas, movies, slide shows, and more. When you’re ready to share, publish your photos and videos to your favorite websites like Facebook and Flickr directly from Photo Gallery.” Source: http://explore.live.com/windows-live-photo-gallery?os=other

Easily “Geo-Tag” your photos as well or connect the photo to a location on a map.

Actually, I downloaded 6 more plugins that will allow me to upload directly to Twitpic, Facebook, Multiply, Auto Collage, Smugmug and Digital Frame.

Real Estate Appraiser Tips: Using iPhone 4 Wide Angle Lens Case For Appraisal Photos

http://realestateappraisertips.info/ — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:15:45 +0000

http://www.realestateappraisertips.info/ – Real Estate Appraiser Tips: Using iPhone 4 Wide Angle Lens Case For Appraisal Photos! Can an appraiser switch to using ONLY their iPhone for taking home appraisal photos? Before upgrading to the 4, I used my 3 to take and email me final inspection photos for closings. And, The iPhone adds so much valuable data to a photo by default! See the conversation below.

When I saw this wide angle lens “case”, I just had to have it for many reasons. The uses I see are:

1.) Taking wide angle lens “photos” equivalent to approximately 16mm, per Mark Passerby at HdHat.com. See larger photo below.

2.) Shooting wide angle video for appraisal projects, appraiser marketing and or agent home listing tours. See some sample videos here!

3.) For the added data the iPhone adds by default to a photo. Below are screen shots from the “Photo Info” iPhone app. I’ve asked Bryan McDonald at REBliss.com Blog to explore this for real estate professionals. REBliss.com is a blog dedicated to reporting on technology for real estate applications and is updated regularly.

4.) Shooting wide angle video for Appraiser Video Blogging and Appraiser Marketing. This is a video I shot with my iPhone 4 on-site with wide angle lens and Audio Technica ATR 3350 lavalier mic plugged in for better audio quality. I also uploaded this video on-site to YouTube.

This is my iPhone 4 with the HdHat Wide Angle Lens Slip-on “Case”. The case is easily removed and is great for wide angle photos and home listing video tours.

You might have seen my setup at RainCamp Houston with the HdHat Wide Angle Lens “Case” where I was able to shoot photos and upload them to Flickr and Facebook on the spot along with video to YouTube. There were dozens of curious Active Rain members stop by to check out the setup.

This is one example of my before and after results using the HdHat Wide Angle Lens “Case”

Can an appraiser switch to using ONLY their iPhone for taking home appraisal photos? Yes on Exterior and Maybe on Interior! Exterior photos would be acceptable for sure. Interior Photos? When the wide angle lens case is installed, you can’t use the iPhone 4 flash and actually you must turn it off or it will distort the photos. So, when there is adequate lighting inside the home to take interior photos with the iphone 3 or 4, then it would work. However, if there isn’t adequate lighting, then an appraiser would need to use their regular appraisal camera.

I’m currently also considering the purchase of this HDHat.com add-on adapter to achieve 16mm wide angle photos with flash.

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