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Some Tips for Swifter Turn Times

The appraisal profession is always evolving. Regularly, it seems, appraisers are asked to supply extra information or have steps added to their research. They do this extra work to guarantee the end user is presented with the most useful analysis possible. In order to stay current with the always changing requirements, Sizemore Appraisal Services, LLC is constantly researching new tools and tweaking processes to increase efficiency so we can do more work for quickly. Since Sizemore Appraisal Services, LLC knows that time is important to everyone, we've listed a couple of items you can do to accelerate the process whenever you order an appraisal from Sizemore Appraisal Services, LLC:

  1. Always order your appraisals online. When you order online, you receive automatic e-mail confirmations that the assignment was received, and fast, secure .PDF format report delivery. This tip alone will save the most time! No longer do we have to manually enter information from a fax, and nor will you wonder whether we got the order.

  2. Complete and accurate subject property information is essential. Being just one number off on the street address can really add unnecessary time to an appraisal assignment. Unique identifiers like a tax parcel number, plat map number, or subdivision name are helpful data to include with the request. 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.

    3. If you have any questions about your property or an assignment we're working on for you, you're always welcome to call us at (972) 918-5259

  3. Let us know up front of the property's unique elements. It's relatively easy to appraise a cookie-cutter house. What takes time is analyzing how unique elements 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 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 susceptible to flooding. These are things we'll find out on our own anyway, and knowing them as soon as possible makes your report arrive more quickly.

  4. What are you doing to make the homeowner of the home aware of what to expect? One of the most tedious steps of the appraisal process is setting an inspection date with the occupants of the home. Many homeowners are understandably apprehensive with the thought that a stranger wants to come in their house, look around, and make copious notes. With the Notion that it will make the house appraise higher, some homeowners think they ought to make the place spotless before the appraisal inspection . So they put off the inspection until they have cleaned.

    Coming directly from you -- a trusted party with whom they are already working -- a little bit 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 clients to this website, where we have lots of pages of useful information for homeowners and others describing the appraisal process. Have them call us if they want to familiarize themselves with the staff and our services. Remind them it benefits them to set the appointment quickly!

  5. Easily verify the status of your report on our website. 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. There's no faster or easier way to track the status of your report.