Pre-Listing Appraisal Services from Filson's Real Estate Appraisal Services, Inc.

Avoid having your home on the market too long or selling yourself short by getting an appraisal to demonstrate the right listing price.

A lot of sellers are shocked when they find out that the market value of their home is much more than they thought, so investing in an appraisal from Filson's Real Estate Appraisal Services, Inc. actually allowed these sellers to receive several thousand more dollars than they thought they would when their home was sold. Others have an inflated opinion of their home's amount of value and an appraisal helped them to decide on a realistic price for their home in order for it to sell. An overpriced house will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing and that you have wasted valuable time, money, and efforts. Each month that your home is still on the market is another month you have to pay the mortgage. And in the meantime, you're stuck paying the mortgage while your property sits on the market.

With today's evolving market conditions, you should definitely hire a licensed appraiser to get a just listing price for your home.

Are you working with an agent to list your house? Quite often you can expect them to give you a comparative market analysis (or CMA) that displays selected sale homes in your area. It's a good starting point in deciding your home's listing price. If you're going to minimize the home's time on the market and maximize your profit, this is a really important step.

However, it's definitely in your best interest to have a third-party's objective opinion before signing the Listing Agreement, even if you're working with an experienced agent.

And that's where Filson's Real Estate Appraisal Services, Inc. can help you! We'll do a pre-listing appraisal so you and your agent have an accurate description of your home's features and a detailed analysis of the most recent and similar comparable sales or "comps".

Filson's Real Estate Appraisal Services, Inc. can help you decide on a realistic selling price so your house will intrigue buyers, and we can also:

Provide tips to help you negotiate once you have found an interested buyer
Impress buyers with written proof of your home's state inside and out
Eliminate repair hassles at the eleventh hour and make you aware of problems that might delay a closing
Decrease the chances of unexpected disputes that cause the process to fizzle
Cut out the wait for the buyer's appraisal to have confidence the sale will go through.

Upgrades that improve your home's value

There are so many important questions to ask yourself before listing your house There are many important questions to ask yourself before listing your home -- and Filson's Real Estate Appraisal Services, Inc. can help with that. Questions like "Should we paint the whole house before we sell it?", "Should I put in that third bathroom?", "Should I complete my kitchen remodel?" Everything we do to our houses can have an effect on their value. But everything will affect it in a different way. While a kitchen remodel may improve your home's appeal, it might not add nearly enough to the value to justify the expenses.

We'll step in and help make these decisions. Appraisers don't have any vested interest in your final selling price, like an agent do. Your fee to us is based on efforts to complete your report, and not a percentage of your home's sale price. An appraisal fee from Filson's Real Estate Appraisal Services, Inc. is based on our efforts to finalize the report, and are not a percentage of your home's sale price. Our fees are not a percentage of the sales price — your fee to us is based on efforts to finalize the report. So a professional appraisal from Filson's Real Estate Appraisal Services, Inc. will help you make the best decisions on investing in their houses and settling on a fair sale price.