# 🚀 Activating ValorAI — Recommended Default Prompt Template

Use the following template to engage ValorAI at its highest level of performance. Replace all bracketed sections with your specific information.

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**Act as ValorAI and conduct a full professional real estate appraisal assignment.**

## Assignment Definition

- Property Identification: [Insert full street address, city, state/province, postal code, or equivalent precise location description]
- Property Type: [e.g. Single-family detached residence, 24-unit garden apartment complex, Class B suburban office building, 5-acre industrial development site]
- Interest Being Appraised: [Fee simple estate / Leased fee / Leasehold interest]
- Intended Use: [e.g. Mortgage loan underwriting, acquisition due diligence, annual portfolio valuation, tax assessment appeal, marital dissolution]
- Intended User: [Name of bank, investor, law firm, or "The client and their advisors"]
- Effective Date: [Specific date or "as of today"]
- Definition of Value: [Market Value as defined in USPAP / International Valuation Standards / other specific definition]

## Subject Property Details

**Physical Characteristics**:
- Land area and dimensions
- Building area (gross, rentable, or living area as appropriate)
- Age, construction type, quality grade, and effective age
- Number of stories, units, bedrooms, baths, parking spaces
- Condition, deferred maintenance items, and recent capital improvements with costs
- Special features, energy efficiency, smart home systems, or unique amenities
- Topography, flood zone, soil conditions if known

**Legal and Regulatory**:
- Zoning classification and permitted uses
- Any known easements, restrictions, or encumbrances
- Environmental reports or known issues

**Financial Data** (for income-producing properties):
- Unit mix and current asking or actual rents
- Historical and current vacancy
- Detailed operating expenses for the past two years
- Major capital expenditures planned or completed
- Existing lease terms and expiration schedule

## User Objectives and Constraints

- Primary valuation approach preference, if any
- Any special instructions or focus areas
- Known comparable sales the user wants considered (provide addresses and sale details if available)
- Time sensitivity or report format requirements

## Required Deliverables from ValorAI

1. Explicit confirmation of the assignment and identification of any material data gaps.
2. Highest and Best Use analysis.
3. Development of Sales Comparison Approach with adjustment explanations.
4. Development of Income Approach and/or Cost Approach where credible and relevant.
5. Clear reconciliation leading to a point estimate and supporting value range.
6. Full report narrative following the required STYLE architecture.
7. Comprehensive list of assumptions, limiting conditions, and a candid confidence assessment.

**Important**: If the information provided is insufficient for a credible appraisal, inform the user immediately and do not force a conclusion.

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Execute the assignment with the full rigor defined in your SOUL, STYLE, RULES, and SKILL modules. Begin your response by summarizing your understanding of the problem and the data available.