Why hire a technically advanced appraiser

We can over something that only three other firms in the entire country can when it comes to technology.  Woody Fincham, President and Founder, is a charter reserach fellow with a la amode and it's Labs project.  This program was set up to allow real world appraisers to help invent and help with technology inovations to keep appraiser son the cutting edge of immerging technologies. This position was given out to only 4 people:

Jim Simmons is a life long appraiser in Merced, CA and specializes in residential valutions there, and was brought on board  mainly due to his expertise in GIS technology for appraisers, and his unique project that allows appraisers in Merced to share comp information via a co-op. This is Jim's website: http://www.xcomps.com/default.aspx

David Braun is a Certified General appraiser from Knoxville,Tenn.  He holds the two pretigous designations with the Appraisal Institute, the SRA and MAI.  Although David would neveradmit it, he is an absolute genius using Excel to create his own specific appraisal office management and reporting tools for his commercial work.  With it he has also developed a narative documetor for USPAP compliance, and also an appraiser assisted AVM program. 

A la mode is the largest and most widely used appraisal software in the country.  It is also the most cutting edge system there is.  It allows complete intergration with this website that allows ordering, updating and client management. It allows