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Electronic Data Transfer (EDI)
(attach the entire appraisal to email)
download free PDF software below
Did you know that most real estate appraisers throughout the U.S. already have the ability to electronically transfer the entire appraisal report - complete with all  pictures, property sketches, location & flood maps, and electronic signatures?  
 
These can be transferred as a single file to your email address almost instantly.
 
On your end, all that is needed is for you to first review the entire report, and then you simply print it on a cheap inkjet printer or a color laser printer.
 
With todays inkjet printers, you can easily print the entire appraisal with all color photos in about 10 minutes or faster.  We use an HP Deskjet 932C, which cost us only $150 in our local CompUSA store.   
 
To "bundle" and send the entire appraisal to you, the appraiser simply converts the "appraisal package" of forms into Adobe "PDF" format, and attaches it to email addressed to you.  On your end, you only need to click on the PDF file email attachment and it will open via your free Adobe "Reader / Printer" software, choose your printer - and print it.
 

DOWNLOAD FREE SOFTWARE:

  FREE "PDF READER/PRINTING software", you can download here

PDF is almost universally accepted as the best way to securely transfer "packages" of forms and pictures, like appraisals. The entire appraisal report with electronic signature prints out on your printer exactly as if they were printed by the appraiser and mailed to you.

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