Volume 10, Issue IV A Publication of ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers

National Appraisal Management Made Simple

 
If you are having trouble managing your appraisal ordering process, perhaps ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers can help. Our system is designed to relieve you of the stress involved in purchasing appraisals by allowing us to manage the process for you. At ELLIOTT® our professionals begin by establishing a plan including the why, where, what, who and when for each assignment. This information is transmitted to the client within 24 hours, via a fax order confirmation. It states all of the particulars and usually requires no client follow-up; that's our job. Clients seeking exclusive appraisal management services should contact our central office. We can develop a custom plan for the management of all of your appraisal orders.

ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers offers all types of real estate appraisals, everywhere in the United States. Whether residential or commercial, we can perform and deliver appraisals anywhere in all 50 states. We offer narrative formats as well as all of the popular form appraisals, including the complete and new limited versions. Through our network of offices and contract appraisers we have some of the most experienced and qualified professionals in the industry, some having been with us for more than a decade. They typically possess state licenses or certifications and many have nationally recognized designations, including SRA and MAI. Whether the assignment is in connection with the sale of a property, refinancing, relocation, foreclosure or a review of an appraisal prepared by others, we are prepared to fill your needs. You may order appraisals via telephone, fax or Internet. On our lightning-fast Web site at www.elliottco.com you are just a few clicks away from ordering an appraisal with no complicated log-on procedures. We promise prompt confirmation of your order, and we will work hard to deliver on, or ahead of schedule, via first class mail, overnight shipping, fax, e-mail or EDI; you make the call. When you subscribe to our services you tap into the benefits of our vast experience. We currently have a client base in excess of 4,300 clients, who have trusted us to prepare in excess of 50,000 appraisals in recent years.

 

ELLIOTT® announces new office for Wilson, new owner in Asheville

 
ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers announces the opening of its newest office in Wilson, N.C., and an owner-ship change in Asheville, N.C.

Kelly Carlton is the owner-manager of the new office. He and his father, Hilton Carlton, will be handling appraisals in the Wilson, Greenville, Tarboro and surrounding areas. Kelly

is a State Certified General Real Estate Appraiser with over 16 years of experience in his field, which includes both commercial and residential appraisals. The Campbell University graduate is FHA approved and has extensive agricultural experience. Hilton is a State Certified General Residential Appraiser who has been in the business since 1970. Before becoming an ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers franchisee, Kelly had been operating as Carlton Appraisal Associates at the same location.

Meanwhile, on the western side of the state, David Earnhardt has purchased the company's Asheville office. Dave, a State Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser, has six years experience, the last four as a staff appraiser for the ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers office he now owns. The Davidson College graduate will continue to work with staff appraisers Phillip Croll, Lisa Trail and Tim Stevens at the same location the office has been operating since 1997.

For information on how to contact these offices, please turn to the directory on Page 3.

Presidents Comments

For those of you who have been past readers of our newsletter, "The Appraisal Advisor," we have a new format. It is with pleasure that we present to you our new newsletter, "Elliott Appraisal News." Why did we change? The reason was a business decision. While the old newsletter received positive comments for its appearance and its content, we felt that it was time for a facelift as well as a name change. Our newsletter is designed to educate our clients as well as to serve as an advertising medium. While we do print advertising, at last check we had a database in excess of 4,300 clients, and the newsletter is our only opportunity to communicate directly with our clients. For those of you who appreciated the content of our newsletter in the past, we promise to continue to work toward including similar topics for your enjoyment. In addition to our newsletter, we have also updated our company Web site. It received a general overhaul both in appearance and in functionality. Functional changes made were designed to assist clients in locating our offices as well as ordering appraisals online. If you have not already done so please visit our Web site at www.elliottco.com. We thank you for your business, and if you are not currently using our Web site to order your appraisals or if you are not using our national service, please log on and experience our system nationwide.

 

In The News

 
The Appraiser Qualifications Board has proposed stricter educational requirements for real estate appraisers. Among the proposals are raising the required classroom time to 140 hours for licensed residential appraisers, 200 hours for certified residential appraisers and 315 hours for certified general appraisers. The board recommended specific education requirements, such as a college degree for certified general appraisers and an associate's degree for certified residential appraisers. The board also suggests that four hours of continued-education credit be given to certified appraisers for managing trainee appraisers.

Angela McLean of the Boone, N.C., office has been certified to perform appraisals in the state of Tennessee.

The network of appraisers who do work for ELLIOTT® continues to grow. At last count we had over 300 appraisers throughout the U.S. ready to perform appraisals under the ELLIOTT® & Company name.

 

Top Producers

 
Congratulations is in order for the following for achieving ELLIOTT® & Company Appraisers excellence in production recognition for the past year:

Top Producing Offices

  • Boone, NC, Martitia Mortimer Gold
  • Winston-Salem, NC, Joyce Pusey Silver
  • Greensboro, NC, Bobby Brown Bronze

Top Producing Managers

  • Joyce Pusey, Winston-Salem, NC Gold
  • Bobby Brown, Greensboro, NC Silver
  • Paul Ray, Charlotte, NC Bronze

Top Producing Appraisers

  • Bill Parker, Boone, NC Gold
  • Barry Weaver, Boone, NC Silver
  • Vickie Flinchum, Winston-Salem, NC Bronze
 

Quotes of Wisdom and Wit

 

"In business you get what you want by giving other people what they want."--- Alice Foote MacDougall

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art."--- Andy Warhol

"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it."­-- Stephen Leacock

"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied upon in a newspaper."­--- Thomas Jefferson

"Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."­--- Kin Hubbard

"Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells."­--- J. Paul Getty

"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."­--- William E. Borah

"Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. It is force."­--- George Washington

"If a government were put in charge of the Sahara Desert, within five years they'd have a shortage of sand."­-- Milton Friedman

"The best minds are not in government. If they were, business would steal them away."­--- Ronald Reagan

"The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money."­--- A.J. Liebling

"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers."­--- Irvin S. Cobb

"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."­--- Pablo Picasso

 

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