Appraisal services for home sellers - Lee Wilkes

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

If you're planning on selling your home soon, an appraisal is a must. Don't think of a professional appraisal as costing money; it pays in the long run! Unless the homeowner makes a career out of studying real estate values, like an appraiser, it's hard for them to understand real estate market forces.

We are not talking about how much you have invested in your home, or how much you want to sell it for. Instead, the appraisal measures the true market value of your home.

For Sale By Owner?

More and more GA 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 professional appraisal. You need objective opinions, it can be very difficult to take an objective look at own home because of your emotional attachment to it. We will tell you what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

In addition to helping you set a astute selling price to attract more potential buyers, a professional appraisal can:

Be a very useful bargaining tool when you find a potential buyer
Put buyers at ease with written proof of the condition of your home's interior and exterior
Make you aware of problems and eliminate overlooked repairs hassles that might delay a closing
Decrease the odds of hidden problems that cause sales to fall through

People are surprised when they find out their home's value is more than they originally believed. So spending a little on a professional appraisal allowed them to receive several thousand more than they could have gotten originally. Alternatively, some people have an overestimated opinion of the value of their home, and an appraisal gave then the assistance they needed in order to realistically price their home allowing them to quickly sell it instead of gathering dust on the market for months. An overpriced home will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, which can waste your valuable time and drain your resources while getting nothing done

Get a professional value opinion before listing

Even if you have with a very skillful agent, it's in your best interest to have an unbiased second opinion of your home's value to signing a listing agreement. Let Lee Wilkes help. We can furnish you with a pre-listing appraisal so both you and your agent have a definitive description of your home's characteristics and a detailed breakdown of the most recent and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

Serving Chatham County with the very best real estate consulting services

Don't need a full appraisal but are looking for information about how the real estate market is doing in your area? Maybe you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you need assistance gathering local property and sales data. We have services tailored especially for consumers like you to help with your real estate decisions.

Here's what to expect when you order an appraisal through us....

Prompt response to your initial inquiry: We will provide you with information tailored for your individual appraisal need. Just explain your situation and give you suggestions.
Fast turnarounds on 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 that suit YOUR needs: We've preformed quite a few of assignments, and we've learned that in the art of real estateconsulting and appraising it's naive to think there's a typical or standard, "generic" report. We offer quite a few different of report types, and have a lot of experience at providing appraisals to consumers without a lot of industry jargon so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
Any follow up questions? You can expect a prompt follow-up from Lee Wilkes: When we write reports, we make sure they are clearly written, understandable, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. If you have any inquiries about your appraisal, once you've read through the report, we encourage you to email or call us!