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Canadian Company Wants To Photograph Every House In U.S. Posted by Pile (9455 views) [E-Mail link] [Get-Rich-Quick] Photographers from a Canadian company are going house to house, shooting pictures of the roughly 300,000 houses in metropolitan Tucson, Arizona. It's part of an effort to photograph and appraise every house in the country, creating a database that can be sold to banks and insurance companies. I wonder if everyone is particularly keen on this Canadian company taking pictures of their house and selling them to the highest bidders? While the city attorney says the activity is perfectly legal, it has officials and some residents concerned about privacy rights. And real estate agents, to whom the company hopes to market the information and pictures, question the value of the database. Representatives of Zaio Corp. — the letters stand for "zone appraisal and imaging operations" — say the information will help loans get processed faster, ultimately benefiting consumers. "In America, it takes seven days to get a residential appraisal and seven weeks to get a commercial appraisal," said Thomas Inserra, Zaio's chief executive officer. "Our company is the first in the world to apply state-of-the-art production technology to appraisals. Our goal is to produce an appraisal before they are actually needed." Jo Ann Larsen, who confronted a photographer outside her Southeast Side home, said: "I know it's legal, but I don't think they should be able to put it on a Web site and make money off it without your permission. I get enough junk on a daily basis without this. I don't want any easier access into my life by anybody." Zaio was formed in 2004 and already has completed appraisals in Spokane, Wash., and in Mesa. Inserra said the company is starting work in 170 cities this month, including Tucson.   Big Ado about Nothing Posted by Nony Mouse on 2007-02-07 14:49:47 Many of the counties in the US have on-line photographs and physical details of every house through on-line public tax assessment and tax auditor sites. What is the big deal? 1 Article displayed.

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