Hello and welcome to my introductory blog! It's my pleasure to reach out and share some ACI news with appraisers. I hope the fact that you're here means you've weathered the industry storm and your appraisal business is on the rise. The objective of my blog is to periodically provide you with some insight as to what's brewing at ACI. We have many exciting projects in the development queue today and several slated for 2010—stay tuned. Now onto today's topic of ChoiceCredits™!

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Recently we rolled out a "ChoiceCredits" program designed to help ACI appraisers better control their costs to access maps, floodmaps, and residential cost data. This pay-per-use service provides ACI appraisers with tremendous flexibility in that it eliminates the need for ACI appraisers to subscribe to multiple services. Using this approach, you can access your floodmaps, cost data, etc… across multiple computers as long as ACI on the additional computers is registered to your company.

How do ChoiceCredits work?

Each service has an associated ChoiceCredit weight. For example, flood maps have a weight of 2 ChoiceCredits. If you have 500 ChoiceCredits on file in your account and you pull a flood map, your balance is automatically adjusted to 498 ChoiceCredits. And you can use the same ChoiceCredits to access residential cost data, location maps, and other services. We'll be adding more service providers to the list in the near future.

How do I purchase ChoiceCredits?

One of the major benefits of ChoiceCredits is they can be shared across an entire office or multiple computers/laptops that have an ACI license associated to that office. ChoiceCredits are sold in lots of 500, 1000, 2500 or 5000. The more you buy, the lower your cost per ChoiceCredit. You can also control which services are available to your appraisers and grant access to these services on a person-by-person basis.

If you're interested in giving ChoiceCredits a try, we've put together a limited-time special.

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