Hi Julio, this is Mark Walser from Incenter. To answer your questions about Remote Inspections:

1) -IS THE HOMEOWNER TAKING THE PICTURES? Nope. You are – you control it 100%. Think of a remote control car, it can’t go anywhere without you moving a stick on the remote control. Same thing here, our permission based tech lets our inspector take the picture when they see the image they want to see on the desktop via the live video stream. The inspector merely clicks their mouse and the picture is snapped, with geo/metatags as well. Homeowner can’t manipulate it.

We also are able to use this technology to get CDAIR done very quickly as in less than 24 hours in most cases. When inspectors are barred from going to an area where a disaster has struck, we can reach the homeowner via this method and perform a full inspection via their cell phone.

2) HOMEOWNER’S CAMERA USED BY WHO? By you. It’s a new class of technology

3) DO YOU FOLKS SEE WHAT I SEE ? As in Incenter? No, we don’t monitor the inspections in real-time though you will be able to record sessions yourself and access them via our secure video storage.

Tune in to us at Valuation Expo on Sept 8-10 in Las Vegas. I suspect you will be very interested in what we unveil there. Stay safe!

https://www.housingwire.com/articles/incenters-virtual-appraisal-solution-brings-arms-length-photos-back-to-the-remote-inspection-process/

“To help mitigate these pain points, Incenter Appraisal Management is offering remote BPO and remote inspection capabilities paired with AVMs. These virtual solutions enable lenders and servicers to get their eyes on a property, regardless of whether they can appraise it in person – as long as the homeowner has access to a cell phone.

“Unlike any bifurcated or traditional ‘in-person’ inspection product, the inspector, agent or appraiser is able to see and view the images and video of the home by using the homeowner like a ‘human tripod,’” explained Mark Walser, president of Incenter Appraisal Management”.

Incenter’s Remote BPO and remote Inspections don’t require homeowners to download mobile applications and take pictures on their own. The inspector attesting to the home inspection or the real estate agent performing the BPO Inspection is able to take the pictures they want via the owner’s camera. This process speeds the return of accurate broker price opinions and inspections to the lender, without borrowers or third parties visiting the property or manipulating the images, introducing a crucial “arms-length” component of the process previously unavailable in a mobile inspection performed with a homeowner”.

1—as long as the homeowner has access to a cell phone.—-IS THE HOMEOWNER TAKING THE PICTURES?
2—by using the homeowner like a ‘human tripod,”

3—without borrowers or third parties visiting the property or manipulating the images
4—The inspector attesting to the home inspection or the real estate agent performing the BPO Inspection is able to take the pictures they want via the owner’s camera.—-IS IT A HOMEOWNER’S CAMERA USED BY WHO?

DO YOU FOLKS SEE WHAT I SEE?

What they are specifically whining about is: those who do residential appraisal lending work. Nothing else.

So, let’s see what happened;

when they required appraisers to all have college degrees, those appraisers actually took college level math courses.

Before HVCC, there was lots of whining about too many appraisers being trained.

There weren’t any diversity complaints, well, except against the orgs which made welfare programs available for lower membership fees for women and other people.

Now the AMCs and GSEs are in charge.

Now the minimum wage is going to be $15 an hour.

Go tell all those people paying those student loans for the STEM degrees that did not bring those “clean” high tech jobs here, that they can be residential “appraisers” for 1987 fees.
And what a privilege that will be, to bear all the expenses of running a “business” that can’t function until it has been a business for at least 5 years and is able to actually win a bid on fee and TAT to get any “business”.

They can carry all the expenses, including the ridiculous 2 year USPAP updated book and classes, license renewal classes and fees, wear out their vehicles, fund their self employment, retirement, health insurance, E&O insurance, oh and perhaps liability and disability insurance in case someone’s dog bites them, or they get carpel tunnel syndrome.

They will be called racist, just for being an appraiser.

On the plus side, they won’t have advertising expenses, but will have to pay for back ground checks for every new client who offers them the opportunity to submit a bid which may or not result in an order to perform some work.

Meanwhile, everyone with an interest in the transaction tells them what to do/or not, and they will be responsible for the decision. Even those with “regulations” that say no one will interfere with the appraisal developing and reporting, yet dictate how the appraisal will be developed and reported……

Did we mention the minimum wage for a “job” will be $15 an hour, doing any and everything other than being an appraiser?

Maybe all the minorities quit the profession after the HVCC.