No, not WinTOTAL Aurora. Or Athena, or Dionysus, or Simon, or any other iteration of WinTOTAL. Don't be silly. But we find it interesting that Bradford Technologies has decided to buddy up to AVMs, despite public relations disasters that have befallen appraisal software companies before it that have done the same thing.
In the latest Working RE magazine, a fine publication with whom a la mode is not affiliated but with whom we have a long, good relationship and which you can subscribe to by clicking here, we read that "Bradford Technologies and Veros Real Estate Solutions" – the folks who brought you the 2004 Predictive Methods Conference, sponsored in part by ACI – have "partnered" on an AVM implementation.
Jeff Bradford, President of Bradford Technologies, is quoted in Working RE as saying, "This is the start of computer-aided appraising." We don't know what ClickFORMS users have been doing all these years, but WinTOTAL users have been using computers to aid their appraising for a very long time. XSites users, Vault users, Pocket TOTAL users. Of course, maybe Bradford really meant "appraiser-aided computing". That's what the AVM companies certainly wish the market looked like, and we're disappointed that Bradford is helping feed revenue to what our readers overwhelmingly consider "the enemy."
It's said that there's a time and a place for everything, but we doubt that there's a time or a place where we'll ever be funneling your hard-won income to those who directly compete with, disparage, and otherwise undermine you. Shame on Bradford – we thought more highly of them.
We continue to sell non-AVM-integrated appraisal software, for those interested.
