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Some Tips for Swifter Turn Times

Appraising is a constantly changing profession. Regularly, it seems, appraisers are asked to offer extra information or have steps added to their appraisal process. All of this is to ensure the end user receives the most useful analysis possible. In order to stay current with the constantly changing requirements, Tauke Appraisal Inc. is constantly seeking additional tools and improving processes to increase efficiency so we can do more work for our clients. Since Tauke Appraisal Inc. knows that time is important to everyone, below are a few tips you can do to speed up the process each time you order an appraisal from Tauke Appraisal Inc.:

  1. Order your appraisals on the Internet. By ordering online, you get automatic e-mail acknowledgements 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 nor will you wonder whether we received the request.

  2. Complete and accurate subject property data is essential. There's nothing like being one number off on the street address to add unnecessary time to an appraisal assignment. Unique identifiers like a tax parcel number, plat map number, or subdivision name is good information to include with your assignment. Even a list of recent area sales is welcome — however, remember that professional appraisers must always do their own due diligence on comparable sales, and ours might differ from yours.

    3. If you have any questions about your property or an assignment we're working on for you, feel free to call us at 5638757279

  3. Tell us up front of the property's distinct characteristics. It's relatively easy to appraise a cookie-cutter home. Most of an appraiser's time is spent analyzing how differing features contribute 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 prone to flooding. While these are things that we would find out on our own, knowing them as soon as possible will likely make your report arrive sooner.

  4. Are you making the occupants of the home aware of what to expect? One of the most inefficient steps of the appraisal process is setting an inspection date with the current homeowner. Many homeowners are understandably uneasy with the idea that a stranger wants to come in their home, look around, and take copious notes. Not uncommonly they think they ought to make the place spotless before the appraisal inspection, having the thought that will increase the value and will choose to not schedule the appointment until it is cleaned.

    Coming 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. Our website has several pages of helpful information about the appraisal process for homeowners. I encourage you to share it with your clients. Have them call us if they want to familiarize themselves with the staff and our services. And tell them it's in their interest to set the appointment as soon as possible!

  5. Our website is a great resource for following the status of your report. 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 can be viewed instantly online. It's never been faster to track your report's status.