Patent ID: 8335747

Claim:
A method comprising: generating at a customer-client an order for a value determination of a residence; appending at least one file to the order, the at least file including customer selected information regarding the residence; storing, in a database accessible by a server, a plurality of appraiser records, wherein each appraiser record corresponds to a licensed appraiser and includes one or more location fields and one or more contact fields; receiving at a network interface card of the server the order for the value determination of the residence, wherein the order identifies an address of the residence; matching the address of the residence with data in the one or more location fields of at least one appraiser record; identifying the at least one appraiser record whose one or more location fields matches the address of the residence; extracting data from the one or more contact fields of the at least one appraiser record whose one or more location fields matches the address of the residence; transmitting by the network interface card of the server a request message utilizing the extracted data from the one or more contact fields, the transmitted request message including the address of the residence and the at least one file; receiving at an appraiser-client the request message transmitted by the network interface card of the server; presenting at least part of the received request message at the appraiser-client; remotely generating, by the licensed appraiser corresponding to the at least one appraiser record, a valuation report of the residence without any visit or inspection of the residence, the valuation report including a value estimate of the residence that takes into account the selected information included in the at least one file; and transmitting the valuation report from the appraiser-client to the server.