We are not an appraisal-factory for big banks

Since most appraisal firms—big and small—rely on big banks for most of their appraisal orders, these banks naturally become the firm’s most important clients.

This is bad for you for at least two reasons:

1. Because those appraisal firms consistently get dozens of orders month after month from each bank client, your business frankly means very little to them—which translates to poor service.
2. And because price and speed are usually more important to bank clients than quality and accuracy, this leads to an assembly-line-like production of low quality, often unreliable appraisals.

We’re different. To maintain our service and quality standards, as well as our independence, we avoid working with traditional big banks.

Instead, we prefer to service individual private clients like you, as well as a host of legal, financial, and tax professionals and their clients.

As a result, most appraisals we do are used for a variety of personal, legal, or tax-related issues, rather than mortgage financing. That’s why we have better familiarity with your needs and situation.

Also, we haven’t developed the bad habits that come from prioritizing speed and cost over quality and accuracy—habits that inevitably result in low quality, unreliable appraisals.

You are a VIP

When you hire a company for an important job, you should expect to be treated like an important person.

We know from experience this is not the case at many appraisal firms—where all but the very largest clients are treated like just another number.

Our clients have our office numbers, cell phone numbers and personal e-mail address. We make ourselves available day and night. When you call, we answer. Not a secretary or a pushy salesman.

We offer you a unique level of access and commitment—and we can usually do so at a lower rate than bigger firms, because we don’t have to charge extra to cover bloated operational costs.