Why do Mtg companies insist on using fax machines to place an appraisal order?

Question

I own an appraisal company and when we get a call for an order to do an appraisal. The loan officer always wants to fax the order. I tell him or her we do not accept faxed orders or phone orders it must be done by email because we can't read the fax. I Tell them 0 look like 9 and 9 looks like 8, you can't read the names or the numbers. I give them our email and they never send the order. What is up with you guys.

Answer 1

i assume they're lazy.

if there's one who you can do without [i know is tough business with shortage of clients], you can simply do the usual online search to discover if the property exists and then send bill for the service rendered of discovering that he has bad info. (by fax, of course)


;-)

Answer 2

Well, maybe they don't have a way to scan and e-mail the form to you. Even when they do, it will probably be done with the same piece of hardware as they would have used for a fax so if there's a legibility issue on their end it will be the same whether it's faxed or e-mailed.

And with caller ID, a faxed order does provide an audit trail that e-mail simply does not provide.

Set up a computer to receive faxes. That way the fax machine on your end won't be an issue in unreadable faxes. If one comes in that you can't read adequately, call the sender and tell them to clean their fax machine and re-send it.

If you want to do business, you're going to have to bend to your customers' ways of doing things or you won't do much business at all. They don't HAVE to do business with you. The business that makes doing business as painless as possible gets the bone and you get nothing. That's just basic business common sense!

Answer 3

Yo! Leo, need a magnifying glass! LOL I feel your pain man, but isn't it documentation for your file? They aren't sending anything because you've already proven to be too difficult to deal with. Ease up dude! I'm starving here and you're making a mountain out of a mole hill! If you're in MN send me the business - I'll take a fax! LOL Gig Gig Gig

When you receive them email, do you enlarge the print to read it? LOL more gigging...

I'm an appraiser too. Hey I like to talk to them, establish rapport!

So How many "comp checks" have you done this week?

Answer 4

Shut up and give me a comp check.

And FAX IT TO ME!

PS, Ever heard of efax? they come right to your email.
Efax+reading glasses+bran flakes = problem solved!

Answer 5

employing your on line organisation's letterhead to reserve your umbrella might properly be called a "purchase Order" for the products and because purchase Orders are contracts between companies, your on line organisation would be held to blame in case you will no longer pay the products you ordered (even however you plan to pay it by using your self). Your boss mentioned its tried theft because he thinks which you placed the order to your man or woman use and have the organisation to blame for it because you used the organisation's letterhead. next time you may merely use your man or woman letterhead in case you like to reserve products for your self. as properly, organisation letterheads (stationery) could be used for company purposes in ordinary terms.

Answer 6

I don't know how the original documents are formatted. However, if it is a document that is not already in electronic form, they may not be able to e-mail it. Not everyone has a scanner to put it in pdf format to then e-mail. I know I don't have that ability on my job.