a la mode honored as Top 25 national Mortgage Technology vendor

on June 29, 2006

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – a la mode was honored this month with inclusion on the annual Mortgage Technology magazine list of the “Top 25 Mortgage Technology Vendors,” confirming its role as one of the most mission critical and influential technology companies in the real estate industry. In previous years, Mortgage Technology provided a broader compilation […]

A top 25 technology company

on June 16, 2006

We’re thrilled that we’ve been named a Top 25 Mortgage Technology Vendor by SourceMedia’s Mortgage Technology magazine.  The list was published in the June issue. In previous years, Mortgage Technology acknowledged the Top 100 mortgage technology companies of any stripe, and a la mode is a fixture on those annual lists.  This year, the editors […]

a la mode’s second annual Summer Convention a wheel hit with appraisers

on June 5, 2006

On display at the Convention is a 2006 Range Rover Sport the company will give away this summer to celebrate its 21st anniversaryORLANDO, FLA. – Welcoming hundreds of appraisers to a three-day event focused on making their businesses more efficient and profitable, a la mode, one of the most mission critical and influential technology companies […]

Gramm-Leach-Bliley: time for the industry to get compliant

on May 25, 2006

What do the words Gramm-Leach-Bliley mean to you? If you’re like many appraisers, you’re vaguely aware that GLB (as we’ll call it) is a law that deals with financial privacy.  You may have heard something about it being applicable to appraisers, but no one’s ever really pressed the issue, so like the vast majority of […]

Appraisal reports are copyrightable, under copyright law and USPAP

on April 19, 2006

Recently, counsel for the Appraisal Institute produced and distributed an article, “Copyrighting Appraisal Reports: Can You?  Should You?”, which called into question the ability and wisdom of appraisers copyrighting their reports.  Since we’ve been in the lead convincing appraisers to protect their rights, we felt we needed to respond. The primary author of our response […]

Appraisal jobs not in the same boat with agents’, brokers’

on March 24, 2006

Lamenting the effect of “the allure of easy money” on former tile salesmen and investment analysts, USA Today this week reported on the contraction of real estate jobs as the housing market normalizes. “As the housing market slows, there will likely be a lot of stories of people who are bailing out of their real […]

Fixing Files PowerView to include tracking info

on March 2, 2006

With your next Aurora update, available next week, you’re going to see a significant change to the way you keep track of your files and order status in WinTOTAL form filling software. The change is for the better – and much more than cosmetic – because the new Files PowerView takes the best of what […]