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UAD1720 — Provide depreciation amount as summary, represented by 'Total Depreciation' or all three forms of depreciation ('Physical Depreciation', 'Functional Depreciation' and 'External Depreciation'), even if the value is 0.

Where this rule lives in the report

Cost Approach
Total Depreciation

Report Section as the GSEs define them — the black tab and grey bar you already read on the URAR.

Severity
Fatal — this blocks your UCDP submission and must be fixed before delivery.
Triggered when
CostApproachIndicator = "true" and DepreciationTotalAmount is not provided, and (DepreciationExternalAmount or DepreciationFunctionalAmount or DepreciationPhysicalAmount are not provided) in a given instance of IMPROVEMENT_COST_AND_DEPRECIATED_VALUE/IMPROVEMENT_DEPRECIATION
Data Point Name
DepreciationTotalAmount

How to fix UAD1720

UAD1720 is a Fatal UAD 3.6 edit, so clear it before the appraisal report goes to UCDP.

  1. 01Open the Cost Approach › Total Depreciation area of the URAR and find Total Depreciation.
  2. 02Check the condition that triggers UAD1720: CostApproachIndicator = "true" and DepreciationTotalAmount is not provided, and (DepreciationExternalAmount or DepreciationFunctionalAmount or DepreciationPhysicalAmount are not provided) in a given instance of IMPROVEMENT_COST_AND_DEPRECIATED_VALUE/IMPROVEMENT_DEPRECIATION.
  3. 03Correct the missing, invalid, duplicate, or inconsistent value before submitting to UCDP.
  4. 04Use the official Manufactured home (MH1) sample value on this page as a reference pattern, then re-run validation.

This fix guidance is derived from the published rule message, trigger logic, report location, field definition, and official sample data available for this rule.

Seen in the sample reports

How this field is populated in the official UAD 3.6 sample scenarios.

More rules in “Cost Approach”

UAD1233The 'Total Depreciation' displays as a negative number on the appraisal. However, it must be delivered as a positive number in the UAD XML. For assistance with this message, contact the appraisal software vendor.
Warning
UAD1234The 'External Depreciation' displays as a negative number on the appraisal. However, it must be delivered as a positive number in the UAD XML. For assistance with this message, contact the appraisal software vendor.
Warning
UAD1235The 'Functional Depreciation' displays as a negative number on the appraisal. However, it must be delivered as a positive number in the UAD XML. For assistance with this message, contact the appraisal software vendor.
Warning
UAD1236The 'Physical Depreciation' displays as a negative number on the appraisal. However, it must be delivered as a positive number in the UAD XML. For assistance with this message, contact the appraisal software vendor.
Warning
UAD1237Provide depreciation amount as summary, represented by 'Total Depreciation' or break out the three forms of depreciation ('Physical Depreciation', 'Functional Depreciation' and 'External Depreciation'), but not both.
Fatal