Tech Tip: Remove a comp from weighting

on April 23, 2024

Want to remove an active listing from your comp weighting? What about that comp you included at the behest of the client, or to bracket a feature – but it shouldn’t affect the value? In TOTAL it’s simple to remove a comp from both the weighting and the suggested (weighted) value while still keeping that […]

Tech Tip: Swapping one major form to another

on April 16, 2024

What if you’ve already started working on a report, and the client changes job (and form types) on you mid-stream – but you have data, like comparable data in the grid, that you don’t want to lose?   In other appraisal tools, you may be used to starting a new report just to get the […]

Suggested Value and Weighted Averages in TOTAL

on March 26, 2024

If you use a weighted average for your sales comps, TOTAL can help you show your work by putting the calculations and a description into your addendum.  The default is to automatically weigh comps by gross adjustment, but you can manually weight them however you’d like. Watch this short video to see how.

Tech Tip – UAD Guide built into TOTAL

on March 12, 2024

TOTAL has a built-in guide and dictionary of all the UAD requirements from the relevant GSE documentation for UAD. This way you don’t have to look it up manually, or perhaps even keep a hard copy of Appendix D buried somewhere on your desk!