Appraisal services for home sellers - Carida McCalla

Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Carida McCalla will ensure you get it right.

If you're going to sell your home, you should seriously consider a professional appraisal. Don't think of a professional appraisal as costing money; it's worth the money in the long run! Unless a homeowner spends hours every week on real estate valuation, like an appraiser, it's hard for them to understand real estate market forces.

While important, an appraisal is not about the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or the amount you'd like to get for it. Instead, an appraisal assesses how much your home will bring on the open market.

For Sale By Owner?

More and more OH homeowners are choosing to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the assistance of a real estate agent. But if you're going to do it right, with minimal waiting and to get the most you can, you need a skilled appraiser. You need objective opinions, we're human too, we understand its difficult hard to be objective about your own home because of your emotional attachment to it. We will inform you of what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

Not only will getting a professional appraisal help you set a astute asking price to attract more potential buyers, a professional appraisal can:

Be a very beneficial bargaining tool once you have a potential buyer
Impress buyers with written proof of the condition of your home's interior and exterior
Alert you of issues and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might delay a closing
Help prevent the possibility of unrevealed problems that cause sales to go up in smoke

It can be surprising to people when they find out the value of their home is more than they originally believed. So by taking the first step and spending a little on an appraisal allowed them to get several thousand more than they originally expected. Alternatively, some people have an exaggerated opinion of their home's value, and an appraisal helped them to to realistically price their home in order for it to sell quickly instead of sitting on the market for months. An overpriced home rarely attracts buyers, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, which can waste your valuable time and drain your resources while getting nothing done

Pre-listing appraisals in Franklin County

Even if you're working with an extremely talented agent, it's in your best interest to have an unbiased second opinion of value prior to signing a listing agreement. Carida McCalla can help. An appraisal can be indispensable in a scenario like this. It will give both you and your agent a complete description for your property and its features which will give you insight into the health of the local real estate market with a detailed analysis of the latest comparable properties in the area.

We also provide general consulting

Have you decided against an entire appraisal but still need some information about the health of your area's real estate? If you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you need assistance collecting local property and sales data. We can be a resource for your real estate quandaries with services especially designed for customers with your real estate needs.

If your curious what to expect from when ordering an appraisal just take a look....

We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a response ASAP: We tailor information to the needs of our clients Just tell us your situation and give you suggestions.
Fast turnarounds for appraisals: Normally in a weeks time or less from the date we receive the request, you'll have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
Appraisal and consulting report formats to suit YOUR needs: We've preformed quite a few of assignments, and we know that practice of real estateconsulting and appraising there isn't a typical or standard, "generic" report. We offer a variety of report types, and are skillful at providing appraisals to consumers that keep the industry jargon to a minimum in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
Prompt reply to follow-up questions: Reports we create are clearly written, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that moderates the appraisal practice. If you have any questions regarding your appraisal, once you've read the report, we suggest that you email or call us!