A Few Steps to Swifter Turn Times

1. Are you ordering appraisals online? With online ordering, you receive automatic e-mail confirmations that the request was received, and fast, secure .PDF format report delivery. This tip alone will save the most time! We don't have to manually enter information from a fax, and nor will you wonder whether the order was received.
   
   
2. Are you providing complete and accurate data about the subject property? There's nothing like being one number off on the street address to unnecessarily slow down an appraisal assignment. Unique identifiers like a tax parcel number, plat map number, or subdivision name are helpful data to pass along with the assignment. 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 might differ from yours.
   
   

	If you have any questions about your property or an appraisal we're working on for you, you're always free to call us at (541) 848-9359



3. Be sure to tell us about the unique details of this property. It's relatively easy to appraise a cookie-cutter home. Most of an appraiser's time is spent analyzing how details unique to a property add to or detract from what otherwise would be a property's market value. When ordering your report, let us know if there are unique characteristics of the home or surrounding area -- for example, it's had a recent addition constructed, it's subject to zoning restrictions, and it's predisposed to flooding. These are things we'll find out on our own anyway, and knowing them as soon as possible will likely make your report arrive earlier.
   
   
4. Let the occupants know what to expect. One of the most tedious parts of the appraisal process is setting an inspection date with the current homeowner. Some homeowners are clearly apprehensive with the notion that an unknown persons wants to come in their house, look around, and take abundant notes. A common belief is that they need to make the place spotless before the inspection, with the idea that will increase the value . So they delay the appraisal inspection until they can get around to cleaning.
   
   Coming directly from you -- a trusted party with whom they are already working -- a little information about the appraisal process, who we are, and especially that dusting and polishing won't change their home's value one bit, will help move the process along for everyone. Our website has multiple pages of helpful information about the appraisal process for homeowners. I encourage you to share it with your customers. They can even call us if they want to become familiar with the staff and our services. And tell them it's to their benefit to set the appointment soon!
   
   
5. Are you using our website as a resource to verify your report's status? 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 each important milestone in an assignment is completed, that information is instantly available to you online. It's never been faster and easier to keep track of your report's status.