Selling your home in or near Hardin County? Contact Preferred Appraisal Service and make sure you're setting the price right.

Selling your home? You would be wise to invest in a professional appraisal. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it's worth the money in the long run! Unless the homeowner makes a career out of studying real estate values, like a professional appraiser does, it's hard for them to understand real estate market forces.

We are not talking about how much you've spent buying and improving your home, or the amount you'd like to get for it. Rather, the appraisal measures how much your home will bring on the open market.

Contact us for any questions regarding our specialized services for home sellers.

Selling on your own?

An increasing amount of OH homeowners are deciding 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 for the best price, you need a professional appraisal. It can be very difficult to get 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.

In addition to helping you set a astute selling price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Be a very helpful negotiating tool while speaking with a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of the interior and exterior condition of your home
  • Make you aware of issues and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might delay a closing
  • Help decrease the possibility of hidden problems that cause sales to go up in smoke

It can be surprising to people when they find out that their home's value is much more than they thought. So investing in an appraisal provided the data to support a sale for several thousand more than they expected they would get. Alternatively, some people have an inflated impression of their home's value, and an appraisal helped them to to realistically price their home allowing them to quickly sell it rather than waiting on the market for months. An overpriced home will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

Get a comprehensive appraisal before listing

Even if you have with a very skilled agent, it's definitely a good idea to have an unbiased second opinion of value prior to finalizing a listing agreement. Preferred Appraisal Service can help. We can provide you with a pre-listing appraisal so both you and your agent have a definitive summarizing of your home's features and a detailed breakdown of the most recent and similar comparable sales which we typically refer to as "comps" in the appraisal industry.

Sometimes it's useful to have a general resource for local real estate knowledge

Not wanting to get a full appraisal but are looking for information about the real estate market in your area? Maybe you feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you need assistance analyzing local property and sales data. We can provide assistance for your real estate dilemmas with services especially tailored for clients with your real estate needs.

When you order an appraisal report from us, expect the following....

  • We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a immediate response: We will give you information tailored for your individual appraisal need. Just let us know your situation and provide suggestions.
  • Swift turnaround time: Normally one week or less from the date the request is received, you'll have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Appraisal and consulting report arrangements to suit YOUR needs: We've done a large amount of assignments, and we understand that practice of real estateconsulting and appraising it's naive to think there's a typical or standard, "boiler place" report. We provide a variety of types of reports, and have an abundance of experience at providing appraisals to consumers that keep the industry jargon to a minimum so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
  • Any follow up questions? You can expect a fast follow-up from Preferred Appraisal Service: When we write reports, we make sure they are written in plain English, understandable, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. If you have any inquiries dealing your appraisal, after you've read the report, we suggest that you email or call us!