Appraisal services for home sellers - Tam Appraisal Services

Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Tam Appraisal Services will ensure you get it right.

If you're planning on selling your home soon, a professional appraisal is absolutely necessary. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it pays you 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 the nuances of 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 the true market value of your home.

Selling on your own?

An increasing amount of CA homeowners are choosing to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the help of a real estate agent. But to do it right, with minimal waiting and for top dollar, 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 realistic selling price to attract more potential buyers, a professional appraisal can:

Allow you to have the edge while negotiating when you find a potential buyer
Put buyers at ease with written proof of the interior and exterior condition of your home
Call attention to any problems and get rid of any last-minute repair hassles that might delay a closing
Help prevent the possibility of unknown problems that cause sales to deteriorate

Folks are sometimes surprised to discover their home's value is a great deal more than they thought. So by taking the first step and investing in an appraisal provided the data to support a sale for several thousand more than they expected they would get. Others have an an overestimated assessment of their home's value, by getting an appraisal it gave then the assistance they needed in order to realistically price their home in order for it to sell quickly rather than gathering dust on the market for months. Selling too high will not attract 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 Walnut Creek

Even if you're working with a very skilled agent, it's definitely a good idea to have of your home's value to signing a listing agreement. And that's where Tam Appraisal Services comes in. We can furnish you with a pre-listing appraisal so both you and your agent have an accurate writeup of your home's features and a detailed breakdown of the most recent and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

Serving Walnut Creek with the very best real estate consulting services

Have you decided against a full appraisal but still need some information about how real estate is doing in your area? Maybe you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you'd still like assistance collecting local property and sales data. We can help solve your real estate dilemmas with services especially tailored for consumers with your real estate needs.

This is a little bit of what to expect when you order an appraisal from us....

We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a prompt response: We tailor information to the needs of our customers Just tell us your situation and we will make suggestions.
Swift turnaround time: Normally in a weeks time or less from the date we receive the request, we can have a 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 whether it's real estateappraising it's naive to think there's a typical or standard, "generic" report. We provide quite a few different of report types, and have know how at providing appraisals to clients sans the in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
Prompt response to follow-up questions: When we write reports, we make sure they are clearly written, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. Should you have any confusion regarding your appraisal, after you've read the report, we encourage you to email or call us!