Some Suggestions for Swifter Turn Times

Appraising is a constantly changing profession. Each year, it seems, appraisers are asked to provide more information or have steps added to their research - all to guarantee the end user is presented with the most useful analysis possible. To stay current with the continuously changing requirements, Jersey Capital Appraisal Service is continuously researching new tools and improving processes in order to increase efficiency so we can do more work for you. Since Jersey Capital Appraisal Service knows that time is important to everyone, below are a couple of items you can do to decrease turn times every time you order an appraisal with Jersey Capital Appraisal Service:

Are you ordering appraisals online? With online ordering, you automatically get e-mail confirmations that the assignment was received, and fast, secure .PDF format report delivery. It's the single biggest time saver available to both of us! We don't have to retype information from a fax, and you don't have to wonder whether the order was received.
Complete and accurate subject property data is crucial. 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 great data to pass along with your request. We even welcome lists of recent sales in the area — however, remember that professional appraisers are lawfully required to do their own due diligence on comparable sales, and ours may differ from yours.


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Are you letting us know up front any features of the property that might make it unique? It's relatively easy to appraise a cookie-cutter home. Most of an appraiser's time is spent analyzing how unique details contribute to or detract from what otherwise would be a property's market value. Let us know up front when ordering your report if there are unique characteristics of the home or surrounding area -- for example, it's recently had an addition built on, it's subject to zoning restrictions, and it's prone to flooding. These are things we'll find out on our own anyway, and knowing them early on will likely make your report arrive quicker.
What are you doing to make the homeowner of the home aware of what to expect? One of the most inefficient tasks of the appraisal process is setting an appointment with the homeowner. It's understandable for a homeowner to be apprehensive with a stranger looking in every corner of their home, taking photos, and making lots of notes. Some think they have to make the place spotless before the inspection, with the notion that will make the house appraise higher and will delay the inspection until they have cleaned.

Coming from you -- a trusted party with whom they are already working -- a little 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 many pages of helpful information for homeowners as well as others describing the appraisal process. Have them call us if they want to become familiar with the staff and our services. Remind them it's to their advantage to set the appointment quickly!
Our website is a great resource for keeping tabs on the status of your report. 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. It's never been easier to keep track of your report's status.