Five Suggestions for Swifter Turn Times

The appraisal profession is constantly evolving. Every year, it seems, appraisers are asked to provide more information or have steps added to their research. They do this additional work to ensure their client receives the best analysis. In order to stay current with the constantly changing requirements, CSP Appraisers is constantly acquiring new tools and tweaking processes to increase efficiency so we can do more work for faster. Since CSP Appraisers knows that time is important to everyone, below are a few tips you can do to accelerate the process on any appraisals ordered with CSP Appraisers:

Are you ordering appraisals online? When you order online, you get automatic e-mail confirmations that the order was received, and fast, secure .PDF format report delivery. This tip single-handedly 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 order.
Are you providing complete and accurate data about the subject property? There's nothing like being one number off on the street address to add unnecessary time to 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 in the area — however, remember that professional appraisers must always do their own due diligence on comparable sales, and ours might differ from yours.


	If you have any questions about your property or an assignment we're working on for you, feel free to contact us

Are you telling us up front any elements of the property that might make it distinct? It's relatively easy to appraise a cookie-cutter house. Most of an appraiser's time is spent analyzing how features unique to a property 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 elements 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 predisposed to flooding. While these are things that we'd find out on our own, knowing them sooner will likely make your report arrive earlier.
Did you make the homeowner 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 occupants of the home. Some homeowners are clearly uncomfortable with the idea that an outsider wants to come in their house, look around, and take numerous notes. A common belief is that they ought to make the place spotless before the appraisal inspection, thinking that will increase the value . So they choose to not schedule the appraisal inspection until they can get around to cleaning.

Coming from you -- a trusted party with whom they already have a business relationship -- a little info 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 them to our website, where we have several pages of useful information for homeowners and others about 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 benefit to set the appointment soon!
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 each important milestone in an assignment is completed, that information is available instantly to you online. It's never been faster and easier to keep track of the status of your report.