Thats hilarious and true, sadly!

Awesome work as always.

Apparently using Firefox has allowed me to go right past these issues for many years. I’m usually not even aware if a document had been locked or not. There is a function where when you take in a pdf, it opens in firefox, then you get an additional in browser option to download the pdf file. It’s unlocked every time as part of the standard download process, and other custom sizing elements are usually removed as well. No more needing to click a different view setting every time. I ended up using this because of the inefficiencies with the adobe pdf free reader softwares. I found that taking the pdf in via firefox allowed me to always read and freely copy any texts from the document. Somewhere in there are options to always read the pdf through your browser, always choose where to save as, and that’s how you bypass locked pdf’s, always taking them in outside of their native file security settings.

Online users have other suggestions but really, mozilla firefox offers solutions for just about every everyday internet content use challenge. Pop on a real time always active spell checker, ad block, ublock, privacy badger, turn off location awareness, prefetch, get to know the about:config menu. Be sure to get the Malwarebytes add on to protect you from malicious page redirects. There really is nothing better. You’ll never see a pop up ad again and ublock allows you to right click block script elements on any given page element like annoying banners and bars which occupy too much page space. It also has the ability to nullify page timers. I get the uspap online done in 2.5 hours or less. Click and go, answer the questions, get the cert. It’s that easy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pdf/comments/jlgul2/remove_copying_and_printing_restrictions_from_a/

It’s just another roadblock and planned harrassment to insure the remaining appraisers will leave of their own accord so they can claim they had nothing to do with the demise of the appraisal industry. Yes, this is and has been a well thought out conspiracy by the private and public sectors, in unison, to eliminate appraisers.

Rick Hemry we pay for this and should not have to deal with it. Also if USPAP is considered “law” it should be free for anyone who needs it.

This Country Club attitude of direction and governance hurts the appraisers they say they represent.

Did you buy your $200 7/hr update? Did you buy the new manual? Good luck getting your license renewed.

If they truly gave a crap about the appraisers and wellbeing of industry, they’d shove the Handbook and AO’s down our throat in a Corelogic software update.

The grift and exploitation of appraisers continues.