5 Tips for Shorter Turn Times

The appraisal profession is constantly evolving. Every year, it seems, appraisers are asked to present extra information or have steps added to their data gathering - all to ensure their client gets the best data that can be achieved. To keep up with the always changing requirements, ECL Real Estate Appraisals Inc is always seeking new tools and tweaking processes to increase efficiency so we can do more work for quickly. Since ECL Real Estate Appraisals Inc knows that time is important to everyone, we've listed some things you can do to lower turn times whenever you order an appraisal from ECL Real Estate Appraisals Inc:

Always order your appraisals on the Internet. 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! No longer do we have to re-key information from a fax, and you don't have to wonder whether we got the order.
Complete and accurate subject property information is crucial. There's nothing like being one number off on the street address to 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. 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.


	If you have any questions about your property or a job we're working on for you, you're always welcome to call us at (813)393-9544

Are you telling us up front any characteristics of the property that might make it distinct? Cookie-cutter homes are relatively easy to appraise. Most of an appraiser's time is spent analyzing how unique details add to or detract from what otherwise would be a property's market value. When you order your report, let us know if there are unique details of the home or surrounding area -- for example, it's had a recent addition put on, it's subject to zoning restrictions, and it's prone to flooding. While these are things that we will find out on our own, knowing them sooner will likely make your report arrive sooner.
What are you doing to make the occupants of the home aware of what to expect? One of the most tedious tasks of the appraisal process is setting an inspection date with the current homeowner. Some current homeowners are clearly apprehensive with the thought that an outsider wants to come in their home, look around, and take copious notes. One common belief is that they must make the place spotless before the appraisal inspection, with the notion that will make the house appraise for more money and will delay the appointment until they can get around to cleaning.

Hearing from you -- a trusted party with whom they are already working -- some information 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. Please feel free to point your customers to our website, where we have lots of pages of relevant information for homeowners as well as others describing the appraisal process. Advise them to call us if they want to become familiar with the staff and our services. Remind them it benefits them to set the appointment promptly!
Use our website to keep track of your report's status. Phone and fax tag are a thing of the past with up-to-the-minute status updates available online, anytime, 24/7. As each important milestone in an assignment is completed, that information is available to you online. It's never been easier to keep track of your report's status.