How does AI Ready Handle Signatures?
Some appraisers have heard that in the AI Ready process the signature is being separated (“stripped”) and their appraisal is no longer “secure.” This is incorrect. Again, appraisers can assure themselves that their signature is present by viewing the appraisal before they send it through AppraisalPort. Depending on the appraisal forms package the appraiser uses, when an appraiser is satisfied with his or her work, he or she “signs” the appraisal using the process provided by the forms package. In some forms packages, if the appraiser goes back to change something, the “signature” is removed and the appraiser must “re-sign.” This assures the appraiser that whatever he or she has signed has not been altered. After that, the appraiser either creates an AI Ready file or a PDF for delivery through AppraisalPort to his or her clients. Of course the appraiser does not physically sign the appraisal in the traditional manner: pen to paper, “affixing” the signature permanently to the paper. When
