As a licensed Real Estate agent, with 20 years in RE and property management, I have had the recent "fun" of meeting the "other guy" on three interior bpo's. I know I meet the stated requirements of the bpo requestor IE license, experience, my hands on all aspects. I know that the "other guy" in all three instances did not. 1) College kid taking pictures 2) Desperate woman, divorced, asked for directions 3)Some scary guy. Not licensed, not experienced, in one case rude to the occ's, not even people who could be construed as RE assistants. I also know my numbers are off and I also know many of the companies that assign bpo's view this site. Any feedback?

The only assistants I use are, me, myself and I.

Mike

I know what you're talking about. I have a simple way to verify that I was at the property. All my street shots (interiors) have my vehicle in them.........end of problem.

Sure it's not your photo-taker's car?

In my opinion, there's NO WAY anyone can do more than 4-5/day without cheating like that but I could be wrong.

How many BPOs can you do in a day?

I have experienced, licensed agents handling my BPOs. I don't do these for any of the mills. However, my listing clients are well aware that I have a team and have no problem with that. No QC issues either since I refuse to hire idiots. Actually, the word I've received from my clients is that they would rather deal with a team effort rather then a "one man band".

I did data entry on 5 the other day and that was a very close to the top. I seem to recall having done 8 or 10 once by my lonesome in a day. But I'd call 6 tops for me.

No data entry software.

This question still comes down to location of your work & quality.

I live in an area where my normal drive time is 15 miles between orders in rural areas. Spread out, not much to comp with, lots of adjustments plus ..............

I go by the belief that you always give more than what's simply 'required'. Go the extra mile. Example; I've been giving all available comps by coverting the MLS PDF CMA to a jpeg and uploading as a picture on all orders. Not required but 2 big things it does.

1. Going the extra mile
2. I never have a QC problem because all of the perimeters I searched with are on the CMA, they know I did the best with what was available and see that I already expanded my search when needed.

Food for thought

My assistant doesn't own a car. Besides, I don't pay her enough to buy gas.....lol.

It's nice that you let her borrow yours so she can do your job for ya

I was just going to respond to your other statement about the 4/5 a day.

Not including taking pictures, I routinely complete around ten a day (or I was, until I lost LS). I'm usually out taking pictures for around three hours on average, so I guess I could do it in one day if I needed to. I'm just not sure if I'd be able to hit my due times, lol.

My day usually starts out with an early rise, then I complete my orders. I then leave here and take pics for the next day's orders. If I have to, I'll get a head start on the next day's orders when I return from taking photos.

I have never used anyone to take photos, and I have never had any help pulling comps or data entry. I've never really had the need for it.

Wrong thread maybe?

I thought about that until I found out she was blind in one eye and can't see out of the other.

Sometimes I have "help" from the company assigning me the bpos with regard to what comps to use. I usually refuse their assistance. So maybe they are doing my bpos for me if they don't like what I have inputed?

Of course there are people who want to do as many orders as possible and churn out trash for cash.

Once regulation jumps in they will vanish into another profession and take all the money with them not caring about what they turned in.

The companies are getting what they are paying for so it shouldn't be a shocker what some people will do.You reduce fees you get trash and to make the same margins people will cut corners.

I made the decision long ago to get out of it rather than cut corners because I turn in quality and for reduced fees was having to clean up someone else's trash.