We have several clients who service Wells Fargo accounts. All of our clients use the same two postings. These are not specific to our own clientele.
The FTV posting is called WF2112. This posting is posted to the front door when you discover a property to be vacant for the first time and has not yet been secured with new locks. This posting has a red band at the top.
The Post Secure posting is called WF1913. Post Secure means that Property Preservation crews have already visited the property and changed the locks and possibly installed a lock box. This posting has the red band at the bottom.
The process goes like this:
- The inspector discovers a property to be vacant for the first time, places the full page sticker (If you do not have any, ask Lori to send you some.) on the front door and takes a photo of it.
- Once the work order is submitted another work order is sent to a Property Preservation company to change the locks and secure the property. At that time they will remove your FTV sticker and replace it with a WF1913 sticker.
From that time on, each time you conduct an inspection of the same property, you should be taking a photo of the WF1913 sticker.
The only reason you as a property inspector would post a WF1913 on the door is if the current posting is of one of the older style postings with a brown, blue, black, checkered, green or any other color banner on it besides the color red. Or, if you know for a fact that the sticker was there at one time and is now missing, you should replace it with another WF1913 sticker.
Wells Fargo really only wants us to use their real full page sticky back posting like the ones we mailed to you. If you run out and have requested more stickers but they have not arrived yet, you may print them in full color and use double back tape (so that no tape is showing in the photo), and then the next time you inspect that property you can replace it with a real sticker.
You can download a copy of these postings from InspectorADE, in the Resources Tab.