One of my evaluation customers who sends me work indicated that when I get to 60 total BPOs I will begin to receive BPOs directly to my email, exclusively, with a time limit to respond before it goes to the "free-for-all".  I'm on my 13th one now and at this rate I should get to my 60th one maybe by the summer of 2010.  Here's my evaluation of BPO's so far:

1. Some were so easy I had completed them within one afternoon in about 3 hrs.

2. Others, and most of them, require a moderate amount of work to get completed before the deadline, 1 to two days.

3. Then there are the rejects which all were late completing and took several days beyond the due date.

The Good:  payment by the evaluating company has been excellent, the pay fair but alittle extra pays for realty fees; learning new neighborhoods and subdivisions; generates a few leads to followup to a listing or sale.  My ranking is all above 91% to 100%, so far a clean record.

The Bad:  time consuming when the valuation is tough to complete or is rejected to needing more comps or explainations.

At least for me, it's nice to have the extra coin, and I talk with a lot of prospective people about BPOs values and I find and seek out a lot of FSBOs.

 

 
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In NC, at least, BPOs seem to be a low paying, time waster with no hope of listing the object of the BPO. I'd rather spend my extra hours blogging! Glad it's working for you in Texas!

9:01am • #1

As of today, 5/1/2009, I've have stopped accepting BPO's.  You are absolutely right.  I did gain a better and quicker way to value property for a seller or buyer and that was good, but the time factor was a problem too.  I'd rather be blogging too.

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