Volume 8, Issue III                                                                                                                          Winter 2000

ELLIOTT® ANNOUNCES ONLINE SERVICE

Effective immediately, clients of ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers can order and receive appraisals via e-mail. Any client looking to decrease turnaround time, improve convenience and save on overnight charges, without any sacrifice to product quality or security, should considering ordering and receiving appraisals online. Each online appraisal will come complete with graphics, digital color photographs and digital signatures.

"We've been doing electronic transmission of appraisals for quite some time in some of our offices. From this experience, we have realized that this method is an important part of the future of the appraisal business," said company President Charlie Elliott. "We are now pleased to offer online service in all of our offices as a standard method of product delivery."

This does not mean that orders cannot be received by fax or that appraisals cannot be sent conventionally by an ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers office. It simply means that any client in need of an appraisal has the option to order and/or receive it via e-mail through our company.

Since e-mail messages are delivered almost immediately, this obviously shortens the turnaround time. Furthermore, a client who orders an appraisal delivered by e-mail can produce as many original copies as he wishes. These transmitted appraisals can be, in turn, relayed, at the push of a button, to other locations within the same immediacy that they were originally delivered. Overnight charges are a thing of the past to a client who receives his or her appraisals via e-mail. And, the online appraisal comes to him faster than it would have from the overnight carrier.

Appraisals delivered online from an ELLIOTT® office are transmitted and remain in a secure environment until received by the client. Electronic signatures automatically disappear if any tampering takes place.

Once a client has an e-mail address, all he or she needs is Adobe® Reader software in order to receive his or her appraisals electronically. Unlike most software programs, this one can be downloaded free of charge. In fact, this can be done through our own website, which is at www.elliottco.com. Anyone needing further ass8istance to get set up to receive online appraisals can call the ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers central office at (800) 854-5889.

Enhanced Website a Client Resource

If you haven't visited the website of ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers lately, you should be in for a pleasant surprise the next time you do. Recent improvements to the site have made it an information center for the real estate world. Over 60 links have been installed, enabling our website visitors to immediately connect with directories or websites of real estate companies, associations, government agencies or other sources of critical information for someone in the business.

The ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers website provides other information about us, including past newsletters, franchise information and a directory of offices. As mentioned in the above article, Adobe® Reader can now be downloaded into a client's computer from our website, enabling that client to order and receive appraisals from us via-email.

 

 

 Charlie Elliott
President

Today, as appraisal clients and appraisers, we find ourselves increasingly responsible for greater efficiency on a regular basis. This ranges from simply providing a quick service to charging less for more service. Thus we have the evolution of the limited appraisal. Some "old school" appraisers resist offering this service and favor the more detailed and expensive complete appraisal. At ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers we see this complacency and independence on the part of the appraiser as a less than noble excuse, which ignores the needs of the client.

We at ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers believe that a high quality limited appraisal can be performed in most cases at a reduced fee and in less time. So while not everyone will always require a limited appraisal, we offer this product with confidence. We are familiar with all of the limited formats and can insure that all professional standards are followed. If, as a client, you would like to learn more about the benefits of limited appraisals, call me or the manager of any of our offices.
 

 
Robert Brown has been names manager of the Greensboro office of ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers. Bobby, who has lived in Greensboro for over 30 years, holds a bachelor of administrative science degree in business management from Guilford College. Brown joined ELLIOTT® at the beginning of 2000 and is a North Carolina State Certified appraiser with seven years experience. Previously, he had been in the restaurant business for over 15 years, and he still holds a seat on the board of directors of the Guilford County Restaurant Association. Bobby succeeds Mary Frances Strand, who will remain with the company as a staff appraiser. Mary Fran chose to relinquish her managerial duties with ELLIOTT® in order to devote more time to family responsibilities.
 

Due to an increase in demand, three new appraisers have recently joined the Asheville office. John Sentelle, Lisa Trail and Jackie Weems have come aboard John Allred's office in the mountains of western North Carolina. Sentelle, who lives in Brevard, N.C., will be handling appraisals in Transylvania, Henderson, and Jackson Counties. Another new ELLIOTT® staff appraiser is Louise Perry at the Greensboro office. Perry and Bill Parker, of the Boone office, have recently become FHA approved.


For the fourth consecutive year, ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers is sponsoring an appraiser continuing education seminar that offers 14 hours of state re-certification credit. The upcoming seminar will be held at the meeting facilities of Greensboro (NC) Realtors Association on March 8 and 9, 2001. It will be entitled "Sharpening Your Appraisal Tools" and conducted by Joseph S. Durrer, Jr., MAI, SRA. Mr. Durrer, a distinguished appraiser/educator from Roanoke, Va., will cover four different subjects of current importance for those in the business. All appraisers are welcome. For further information call the corporate headquarters at (800) 854-5889.

Quotes of Wisdom and Wit

Winston Churchill

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Success is going from failure to failure without loosing enthusiasm.

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Chinese Proverbs

He who rides the tiger can never dismount.

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

When you bow, bow low.

A young branch takes on the bends that one gives it.

A dog in a kennel barks at his fleas. A dog hunting does not notice them.

Experience is a comb which natures gives us when we are bald.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask is a fool forever.

The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to a pitcher.

Lewis Grizzard

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Never argue with an idiot. It gets hard to tell who's who.

Never order barbeque in a place that also serves quiche.

Women who drink white wine either want to get married, sell you a piece of real estate, or redecorate your house. Either way it's expensive.

You can't perfume a hog.

I don't think I'll every get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.


 

 

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