Publication: Valuation Insights & Perspectives
Publication Date: 22-MAR-07
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Pugh, R. Wayne
Article Excerpt
As a software developer, I receive too many calls from individuals who have just lost all of their data on their hard drives. Too many appraisers deny the obvious, expecting their hardware will run flawlessly, impervious to failure. It is not a matter of whether a hard drive will fail, but when it will fail, or be destroyed by flood or fire or even stolen. Exploring reliable backup software, removing the backup media off-site and more importantly backing up to an off-site service can drastically reduce downtime and cost to an appraisal business in a disaster.
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Appraisers should consider the true cost of replacing all the information that they have collected over a period of several years. Consider the scenario: Your hard drive has just crashed and you have no backup. You now have no appraisals to clone, no databases for comments, no client data and no comparable sales data, not to mention your accounting system, word processing and spreadsheet files and so forth. Just ask yourself how many properties you have appraised in the past six months and then realize the amount of time you have saved because you had a previous appraisal of a similar property on file in your computer. What if all of these files are lost?
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Additionally, without a paper copy of your open invoices, you would have to reconstruct them from memory or simply hope your clients...
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