A Few Steps to Swifter Turn Times

Appraising is a constantly changing profession. Often, it seems, appraisers are asked to include additional information or have steps added to their data gathering. All of this is to guarantee their client receives the best data. In order to stay current with the constantly changing requirements, Anderson Appraisals is constantly researching additional tools and improving processes to increase efficiency so we can do more work for our customers. Since Anderson Appraisals knows that time is important to everyone, we've listed some things you can do to lower turn times on any appraisals you order with Anderson Appraisals:

Are you ordering appraisals online? When you order online, you receive automatic e-mail notifications that the order was received, and fast, secure .PDF format report delivery. This tip alone will save the most time! We don't have to re-key information from a fax, and nor will you wonder whether we got the request.
Complete and accurate subject property data is crucial. There's nothing like being one number off on the street address to add unnecessary time to 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. We even welcome lists of recent sales from the area — though be advised that professional appraisers are lawfully required to do their own due diligence on comparable sales, and ours may be different from yours.


	Feel free to contact us if you have any questions about your property or an assignment we're working on for you.

Are you telling us up front any details of the property that might make it distinct? Cookie-cutter houses are relatively easy to appraise. Most of an appraiser's time is spent analyzing how differing details contribute 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 details of the home or surrounding area -- for example, it's had a recent addition constructed, it's subject to zoning restrictions, and it's prone to flooding. While these are things that we would find out on our own, knowing them as early as possible makes your report arrive earlier.
Be sure the homeowner knows the plan. One of the most time consuming parts of the appraisal process is setting an inspection date with the current homeowner. It's understandable for a homeowner to be uneasy with an outsider looking in every corner of their home, taking photos, and making abundant notes. Believing that it will increase the appraised value, some homeowners feel they have to make the place spotless before the appraisal inspection and will choose to not schedule the inspection until it is cleaned.

Hearing it directly from you -- a trusted party with whom they are already working -- some info 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 clients to our website, where we have lots of pages of useful information for homeowners as well as others regarding the appraisal process. Tell them to call us if they want to become familiar with our staff and services. Remind them it benefits them to set the appointment soon!
Use our website to follow 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 easier to keep track of the status of your report.