Some Tips for Quicker Turn Times

The appraisal profession is evolving at all times. Regularly, it seems, appraisers are asked to provide additional information or have steps added to their data gathering. All of this is to guarantee the end user gets the most useful analysis. In order to stay current with the continuously changing requirements, OrderAnAppraisal.Org is always seeking additional tools and improving processes in order to increase efficiency so we can do more work for quickly. Since OrderAnAppraisal.Org knows that time is important to everyone, we've listed a handful of items you can do to hasten the process each time you order an appraisal with OrderAnAppraisal.Org:

Always order your appraisals online. When you order online, you automatically receive e-mail acknowledgements that the assignment was received, and fast, secure .PDF format report delivery. Ordering online is the single biggest time saver available to both of us! We don't have to re-key information from a fax, and you don't have to wonder whether the order was received.
Make sure that the subject property information is accurate and complete. Being just one number off on the street address can really unnecessarily delay an appraisal assignment. And if you have a tax parcel number, plat map number, subdivision name or anything else that uniquely identifies the property, please pass it along. Even a list of recent area sales is welcome — though be advised that professional appraisers are lawfully required to do their own due diligence on comparable sales, and ours may differ from yours.


	If you have any questions about your property or an appraisal we're working on for you, don't hesitate to contact us

Are you telling us up front any features of the property that might make it unique? It's relatively easy to appraise a cookie-cutter home. Most of an appraiser's time is spent analyzing how differing details add to or detract from what otherwise would be a property's market value. At the time you order your report, be sure to let us know if there are unique characteristics of the home or surrounding area -- for example, it's recently had an addition constructed, it's subject to zoning restrictions, and it's predisposed to flooding. These are things we will find out on our own anyway, and knowing them as early as possible makes your report arrive quicker.
Let the homeowner know what to expect. One of the most time consuming tasks of the appraisal process is confirming an inspection date with the homeowner. Some current homeowners are clearly uncomfortable with the notion that a stranger wants to come in their home, look around, and make numerous notes. Some think they have to make the place spotless before the appraisal inspection, with the belief that will increase the appraised value and will choose to not schedule the appraisal inspection until it is cleaned.

Coming from you -- a trusted party with whom they are already working -- a little bit about the appraisal process, who we are, and especially that dusting and polishing won't increase their home's value one bit, will help move the process along for everyone. I encourage you to point your customers to this website, where we have multiple pages of helpful information for homeowners as well as others about the appraisal process. They can even call us if they want to familiarize themselves with the staff and our services. And tell them it benefits them to set the appointment as quickly as possible!
Easily keep tabs on the status of your report on our website. Why are you still playing phone and fax tag when our website offers up-to-the-minute status updates available online, anytime, 24/7? As we complete each important milestone in an assignment, that information is available to you online. There's no faster or easier way to track your report's status.