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valurAIz is GSE verified for UAD 3.6 and built UAD-3.6-native — but we know not every file or client is there yet. valurAIz also supports legacy forms like the 1004, so you can keep running older-standard files on the same platform while you move your practice to 3.6 at your own pace.

valurAIz pulls live comps and public record data through MLS integrations covering 98% of the country, so nearly any market you work in should already be covered. If you'd like us to confirm your specific area before you sign up, just reach out.

Not yet — we don't currently offer an automated import from Total. New files are set up directly in valurAIz going forward. If you're mid-transition, reach out and our team can help you think through the move.

For all general enquiries, please reach out to us on contactus@appraiz.biz, for any technical enquiries, please reach out to us on support@appraiz.biz - we get back to email outside of phone hours too. For anything urgent, please call us at 1 (800) 917 - 0608, Mon-Fri, 7am - 7pm PT.

valurAIz picks the license that matches the state of the subject property — a California property gets your California license, a Nevada property gets your Nevada one. If you work in an office, you can also choose who signs the report.

Yes. As soon as you get a UAD 3.6 order, let us know (support@appraiz.biz or the support line) and we'll book a session before your due date to walk you through it, so the report goes out on time.

Click your initials in the top-right corner, then choose Profile. You can add your insurance, signature, name, company, address and credentials there — they're used on every report.

Add it in your Profile with your other credentials. If it's missing, it can't appear on your FHA reports.

Trainees get a free account on the platform. An assistant or other office staff member needs their own user account under your firm — if your current plan doesn't support that, we can upgrade your account to Enterprise so you can add team members securely. Admin users are free for the first year.

Yes. Go to Profile → Commentary and add them to your quick list. Give each one a short prefix for the section it belongs to (for example SP_ranch for Subject Property) so it's easy to find. You can also highlight any text you've written or pasted in a report and choose Save text as comment.

When you create the subject property, AI drafts the commentary from the property details. You can edit it, or replace it with one of your saved comments.

The dashboard's top tile row is a pipeline snapshot: Active Pipeline (total files in progress), Pending (not yet started), Overdue and Due Today / Due This Week (deadline tracking), Avg Turnaround in days, plus month-to-date Completed, YTD Total, and Awaiting Payment.

Below that, Current Workload is a donut split of every open file by status (Completed / In Progress / Inspection Done), and Weekly Completions is a bar chart of files closed per week — useful for spotting a slow week before it becomes an overdue file.

1. Go to Admin → Team Members.
2. Click Invite user.
3. Enter their first name, last name, and email.
4. Under Access permissions, tick what they're allowed to do: View All Reports, Generate Report, Create Appraisal, Create Users, Invoices, Sign as Supervisor, and/or Manage Defined Markets.
5. Click Send invitation — they get an email to set up their own login.

Existing teammates are listed on the same screen with an active/inactive toggle and their current permission tags, so this is also where you'd tighten or revoke access.

Yes. Click the + button on the Appraisals dashboard to open the New Appraisal wizard — a 4-step flow: Order → Address & Details → Confirm Property → Add Photos.

1. On step 1, drop a PDF or photo of the order document (engagement letter or AMC order) into Upload order.
2. The assignment details, property address, and key dates are read off the document and filled in automatically.
3. Click Continue to confirm the property and move on — or Skip and enter details manually if there's no order document yet.

No, this is optional. Those details build your inspection checklist in the mobile app (for example, how many bedroom photo tiles you get). You can leave them blank or change them after the inspection.

Above-grade finished square feet. Under UAD 3.6, above-grade and below-grade area are separate fields.

The UAD 3.6 report is the full, dynamic URAR. The Completion report is used for new construction or for sales that weren't "as is," when you go back to confirm the work. The Update report is used to update an earlier appraisal. The Update and Completion reports are short, simple forms. Legacy forms such as the 1004 and GPAR are also available.

Yes. Upload them, or import them straight from Google Photos. If you use the apprAIz mobile app, your photos are already there.

Yes. The desktop and the mobile app are always in sync. There's no upload, download or "sync" step — start an appraisal on either one and it's on both.

1. From the property's room list (Basement, Bedroom #1, Bathroom #1, etc.), tap the room you're standing in.
2. The camera opens directly in-app — frame the shot and tap the shutter.
3. The captured photo drops straight into that room's exhibit set, and you're returned to the room list to keep moving.

Because photos are filed by room as you shoot, there's no separate step later to sort or label them for the report.

On the Subject Property Amenities screen (part of the mobile inspection flow), amenities are grouped into icon tiles — Property Amenities (pool, guest house, …), Energy Efficient & Green Features, and other equipment/improvements. Tap each tile that applies to the property; a green check marks it as recorded. Nothing to type unless a note needs more detail than a checkbox.

1. Open the room-scan tool from the inspection flow — it drops you into the camera with the on-screen prompt "Point camera at top, then bottom edge of wall."
2. Slowly pan across each wall as instructed; the app traces the wall edges live using the camera.
3. Tap Finish Scan once the room's outline is fully traced.
4. Repeat per room — the traced outlines are stitched into a floor plan automatically.

Note: this is a rough capture, not the final sketch — it opens pre-drawn in the desktop Sketch Tool for you to true up measurements before it goes in the report.

The GSEs require a dwelling front photo, so it has its own placeholder. You can use the same photo for both.

They upload like any other photo. Image analysis looks at each one, recognizes the room type even when the room is empty, and files it in the right section.

You can take photos while offline — just make sure Allow Upload from Photos is turned on in your Profile settings, so anything captured offline uploads automatically once you're back online. Full offline support for the rest of the app is coming soon.

Yes. Open the appraisal on your phone and use the map to get directions, including through CarPlay.

Not at the moment. Note condition issues yourself in the report.

Market Analysis is the neighborhood-level sale-stats block — sale count, median/min/max price, price spread, absorption rate, median days-on-market, distressed-market flag — plus the trend charts (median sale price over time, price-per-sqft scatter, sales volume by month, price distribution) that back it up.

It's zero-click because it's driven entirely by the Defined Market polygon(s) attached to the property — draw the boundary once, and every appraisal that falls inside it pulls the same market stats, charts, and comps with no manual pulling, filtering, or re-typing. Because it's generated data (not typed narrative), the numbers and charts drop straight into the report with no copy-paste step.

1. On the Market Analysis page, open Add New Market next to Defined Markets.
2. Give it a Market Name (e.g. "Northeast Philadelphia" — name it for the neighborhood, not the property).
3. Draw the boundary on the map with freehand polygon, rectangle, or circle.
4. Once closed, drag any point to true it up against real streets/parcel lines.
5. Click Save Market.

Saved markets aren't tied to one file — they're stored account-wide under Admin → Defined Markets, so once a neighborhood is drawn, every appraiser on the team can attach it to future orders in that area without redrawing it.

Click Data View (next to Chart View) on the Market Analysis page to switch from the graphs to the underlying sale-by-sale table, find the row you consider an outlier, and uncheck it.

The change applies immediately — the charts and market stats recalculate without that sale. The table color-codes rows so you can see which were touched manually (added or excluded) versus which came in automatically.

Yes. Polygons can overlap and be as small or large as you like — for example, keep a tight polygon for single-family homes in a neighborhood and a wider one for condos. Market Analysis uses the polygon the subject sits in, and you can manually add other saved polygons to the analysis.

For now, draw the new boundary as a new market and delete the old one.

Yes. Click a column header to sort, for example to group everything above or below a price point and uncheck those sales quickly.

Open the appraisal and go to Micro Analysis. Directly under the subject property summary card, you'll see range sliders for Bedrooms and Bathrooms, alongside Area and Lot Size — drag the handles to set the min–max range you want, and the comp list on the right updates live.

Yes. Under Add more filters, click + Add filter, pick the field (e.g. Year Built), and enter a min and/or max value. The new filter shows up as a chip you can edit or remove later — filters stack, so Bedrooms 3–4 and Year Built 1998+ can both be active at once.

They're the same Q1–Q6 / C1–C6 rating scale as the subject property, shown as a dial you drag across a red-to-green range. Set them to bracket the subject's own rating (e.g. subject is Q4, so allow Q3–Q5) to keep comps in a realistic quality/condition band rather than filtering on a single exact grade.

No — there's an Import CSV button at the top of the Micro Analysis comp panel for bringing your own comp list in alongside the auto-pulled ones. Reach out to our team if you need the exact column template.

It's a running audit line above the comp table: valurAIz pulled that many candidate sales, automatically dropped the ones outside the drawn market polygon, and shows how many more were manually excluded by you on top of that — so it's always clear why the visible comp count is lower than the number pulled, and every exclusion is traceable back to either the boundary or a person.

Yes. Set your filters, save them as a template, and apply it with one click next time.

It depends on what your MLS provides, since every MLS reports rooms a little differently. Always check bedroom counts against the listing details.

Yes. Use View Last Used to bring back comps from earlier assignments, including ones you entered manually.

Not at the moment. Each report is built fresh by design, because UAD 3.6 reports are dynamic.

You pick a factor (Sale Date, Site Size, GLA, Neighborhood, Year Built, Bedrooms, Bathrooms, Vehicle Storage, Quality, Condition), and a regression runs against your market/micro comp pool for it. You get a bar chart of median $/sqft by bucket with the subject's bucket highlighted, a fit method (Paired Sales, Linear, or Poly 2) with its R², and the derived formula itself, e.g.:

price ~ 220.0 × sqft + −17004 × bedrooms + 120028 (R² = 0.54, n = 170)

Each comp's adjustment is pre-filled from that regression — editable if you want to override it — and a click adds it to the comp's line in the main adjustment grid. This is what replaces manually eyeballing "what's a $/bedroom adjustment worth in this market" — the app answers it from the actual local paired-sales data every time.

From the Micro Analysis comp list, use Select Comparables to move your chosen properties into the comparison lineup (Subject / Comp 1 / Comp 2 / Comp 3) that carries through Adjustments and Reconciliation. The lineup shows each comp's photo, distance, and basic facts side-by-side with the subject before you commit.

Go to the homepage → Appraisal → Market Analysis → Micro Analysis → Select Comparables → Adjustments.

Yes. Under UAD 3.6, if the feature exists it still needs to be reported on the grid, even if you don't make an adjustment for it.

Click the information icon next to the field. It shows the source: public records, MLS, photo analysis or AI.

The Property Lineup grid lays Subject vs. Comp 1/2/3 side by side and rolls each comp up to its Net Adjustment Total, Adjusted Price Per Finished Area Above Grade, Adjusted Price, and Comparable Weight. Enter the final number in Indicated Value by Sales Comparison Approach, and use the Reconciliation narrative field below it to explain how you got there.

No — log it instead. The Additional Properties Analyzed Not Used table on the same page captures Address, Sale Date, Status, Reason Not Used, Reconsideration, and Comment for exactly this. It keeps a defensible record of what was reviewed and rejected, which is what a reviewer or underwriter will look for.

Open Sketch from the report's section list. The scanned outline loads as an editable polygon with every wall length labeled. Use Wall to draw or redraw a segment, Eraser to remove one, Arc for curved walls, and Label to annotate a room. Stairs and Amenities (Garage, Porch, Patio, Pool, Fireplace) drop in as pre-shaped elements rather than being hand-drawn, and Undo/Redo work as expected.

The Area Breakdown table below the canvas recalculates Length × Width × Area for every labeled space as soon as you adjust a wall — no manual re-adding.

Yes. It's the same tool, laid out to fit your screen.

Pick the garage from the room library and place it on the plan — it cuts out of the living area instead of sitting on top of it. To change any area's type (for example to non-GLA, below grade or unfinished), right-click it and choose Change area type.

Select it and use the Erase tool, or press Ctrl+Z (⌘Z on a Mac) to undo.

Each floor is its own sketch on its own level. Copy the footprint, add a floor and paste it, then add stairs to connect them. Each floor gets its own line in the area totals.

The left-hand section list (Assignment Information, Subject Property, Site, Disaster Mitigation, Energy Efficient and Green Features, Sketch, Dwelling Exterior, …) is the whole report broken into roughly 20 sections, with a live counter at the top — "X of 20 sections clear" — and a progress bar. A section that doesn't apply to this property (e.g. Manufactured Home on a standard single-family file) is greyed and tagged N/A instead of counting against you.

Yes — there's a UAD Assistant chat widget docked in the report editor for in-the-moment questions about how a specific UAD field should be filled in.

The Generate URAR button sits in the top-right of every stage of the report (Market Analysis, Micro Analysis, Adjustments, the form editor) — it's always in the same place, so there's no need to navigate back to a specific screen to produce the document. Before generating, it's worth reviewing the Inspection Summary screen — it rolls up the subject's map, key facts, and full inspection photo grid in one place, which is the fastest way to check that nothing's missing before the report is produced.

Yes. Go to Profile → Integrations → QuickBooks to connect your account and send invoices across with one click.

Yes. apprAIz uses Craftsman's Replacement Cost API, a widely used cost-estimating service for appraisal and insurance work — it produces a replacement-cost estimate for single-family, multi-family, and manufactured homes, adjusted by location and by building class and condition, so the cost approach doesn't have to be built by hand.