Imagine your home or business has a fire, it’s bad. Everything in it, in every room, from the ceiling to floor, wall to wall, is covered in hazardous soot from the fire. After a property damage like this and others, property owners will wrestle with many challenges. Not the least of these challenges is creating accurate and properly documented inventories of the personal property that has been damaged.
An average home can contain thousands of individual items, each with a unique value. Accounting for that property, researching its value, and creating the documentation needed to recover its’ fair value is an incredibly labor and time-consuming process.
There are some inventory service providers but unfortunately, many people and businesses that do this work lack the bandwidth, experience, or resources necessary to effectively prepare professional inventories. As a result, many millions of dollars in settlements go uncollected. We are a resource to address this industry-wide issue: ARCHER Inventory.
ARCHER provides comprehensive personal property inventory services using trained, company-certified technicians. Technicians learn about safety protocols, site evaluation, property assessment, restoration techniques, client communication, and operation procedures amongst other things. Each technician receives 80 hours of field training and passes an exam before certification is granted.
In practice, ARCHER provides trained labor to each project. Field teams, led by a project manager, assess, document, and catalog each piece of property onsite. Simultaneously, our back-office support staff researches the items as they are documented onsite to identify accurate replacement sources. And ARCHER has an experienced management team in place that provides consistent support and communication throughout the claims process. The result is a heightened level of professionalism, service, and outcome for contents inventory work.
ARCHER also charges for projects as a “labor pass-through”, meaning work is billed by the hour, based on the actual cost to perform that work plus a small company markup. This provides ARCHER customers assurance that they pay based on the amount of work they need done.
Businesses rely on ARCHER for their contents inventories in a variety of ways and reviews are outstanding. Most inventories are delivered within 48 hours of inspection. Because reports are based on the actual replacement property vs. estimated values, settlements are accurate and avoid unnecessary delays and disputes. ARCHER can provide holistic inventory services or just fill in gaps in the inventory process providing customers with greater ability to control costs for their projects.