A Few Suggestions for Faster Turn Times

Appraising is an always changing profession. On a regular basis, it seems, appraisers are asked to provide more information or have steps added to their appraisal process. They do this additional work to ensure the end user is presented with the best information that can be achieved. In order to keep up with the continuously changing requirements, B & N Appraisals Inc. - Stacey Pimental is constantly testing additional tools and tweaking processes to increase efficiency so we can do more work for our customers. Since B & N Appraisals Inc. - Stacey Pimental knows that time is important to everyone, here are some tips you can do to speed up the process on any appraisals ordered from B & N Appraisals Inc. - Stacey Pimental:

Are you ordering appraisals online? When you order online, you automatically get e-mail acknowledgements that the request was received, and fast, secure .PDF format report delivery. Ordering online is the single biggest time saver available to both of us! No longer do we have to manually enter information from a fax, and you don't have to wonder whether we received the order.
Make sure that the subject property information is accurate and complete. Being just one number off on the street address can really unnecessarily slow down 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 must always 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 a job we're working on for you.

Be sure to tell us about the unique elements of this property. It's relatively easy to appraise a cookie-cutter home. 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 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 susceptible to flooding. While these are things that we'll find out on our own, knowing them sooner makes your report arrive sooner.
Set proper expectations with the homeowner. Setting an inspection time and date with the homeowner can be one of the most time consuming tasks in the appraisal process. Some homeowners are justifiably apprehensive with the notion that an unknown persons wants to come in their home, look around, and make abundant notes. Under the belief that it will make the house appraise higher, many homeowners believe they must make the place spotless before the inspection . So they delay the appraisal inspection until they can get around to cleaning.

Coming directly from you -- a trusted party with whom they already have a business relationship -- a little knowledge about the appraisal process, who we are, and especially that dusting and polishing won't make a significant difference in their home's value, will help move the process along for everyone. Please feel free to point your customers to our website, where we have many pages of helpful information for homeowners as well as others describing the appraisal process. Tell them to call us if they want to familiarize themselves with the staff and our services. And tell them it's to their advantage to set the appointment quickly!
Easily follow the status of your report on our website. 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 can be viewed instantly online. There's no easier or faster way to keep track of the status of your report.