Watching an appraiser guy do the trade

job but he is making hard work of it.

I always wanted to make a film about appraising but never got around to it. At any rate,

it is easier to criticize someone elses work than it is to do the job yourself.

This guy is doing the job but he is sure making hard work of it.

Trying to draw the rooms from the inside of the house would give me a headache. And he is

trying to fill out the form while he is inside the house.

The first thing I do is measure the house from the outside. Walking around the house gives

me perspective. I can tell where the add ons are for instance. Once inside I take free lance

notes and take pictures of everything that I need to remember.

This guy is out there with a measureing tape and no one to hold the dumb end. Oh wait, that

cute girl can hold the dumb end. I use a wheel and a laser tape. I cannot imaging going back

to a tape measure.

All and all, this guy is not using techology to his advantage. In the old days of poloroid film,

we were limited in the number of pictures that we could take. Now, pictures are free so I take

a lot of them. I sort them back on the office. Secondly, that old tape measure really sucks.

A laser take makes clean accurate measurements over some pretty good distances and the

wheel is backup for anything outside the capability of the laser