chit at work
A voice notes app for real estate appraisers
Who carries it: Appraiser
Condition observations and comp logic are clearest standing in the driveway — not three inspections later at a desk. A voice notes app for real estate appraisers captures observation narration and homeowner conversations as they happen, and hands back field notes that support the workfile, with the revisit list queued.
Your workfile defense, narrated at the property.
When an appraiser presses it
- Property observation narration
- comp reasoning
- homeowner conversations
“Certified residential appraiser; capture condition notes and comp logic.”
A context like this — typed once into the app — is how chit stops being a generic recorder and starts being yours.
Field notes support the workfile; revisit list queued.
Condition notes and comp logic narrated on site, supporting the workfile.
USPAP workfile support; data in firm VPC.
Condition notes and the reasoning behind the comps
The workfile is supposed to show your reasoning, and reasoning is the first thing to evaporate. You stood in the kitchen and decided the updates were mid-2010s not current; you looked at three comps and rejected one for a reason you were completely clear about at the time. Say it on site and in the car — the condition observations, why this comp and not that one, what the homeowner told you about the addition and whether it was permitted. The field notes come back that evening to support the workfile, with the revisit list queued. Months later, when a review or a complaint asks how you reached a number, the answer is an account made at the property rather than a reconstruction made under pressure.
See the app work
Good questions
Can I dictate condition notes during the inspection?
Yes. Hold the button and narrate as you move — condition, updates, quality of finish — then let go. Each pass becomes a timestamped transcript tied to that property visit.
How does this support my USPAP workfile?
Contemporaneous, timestamped narration of what you observed and how you reasoned about comps gives you material to retain in the workfile — your notes as they were made, not reconstructed. Data can live in your firm's own environment on enterprise deployments.
Can I recall why I chose a comp months later?
Yes — ask-anything search runs across everything captured, so the reasoning you spoke on site is findable when a review or revision request arrives.
Does it work at rural properties with no coverage?
Yes. chit records offline and syncs later, and the battery runs about a month of typical use — dead zones don't cost you the note.
Our firm needs control over where data lives — is that possible?
Yes. Firms deploy chit as a branded device fleet with data resident in their own VPC. See hichit.com/enterprise, and ask us about compliance deployments.
Recording laws differ by state, and several require every party's consent. chit only captures while the button is held — know your state's rule before recording another person.
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