Appraisal services for home sellers - Collins Appraisals

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

Selling your home? You would be wise to invest in an 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 an appraiser, it's hard for them to understand their local real estate market.

While important, an appraisal is not about how much you've spent buying and improving your home, or the amount you need to get for it. Instead, a appraisal provides a professional opinion on the true market value of your home.

Going to sell your home yourself?

An increasing amount of TN 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 to get the most you can, you need a professional appraisal. The best thing to have is objective opinions, we're human too, we understand its difficult difficult to take an objective look at own home because of your emotional attachment to it. We will explain to you 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 so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

Be a very beneficial negotiating tool when you find a potential buyer
Put buyers at ease with written proof of the interior and exterior condition of your home
Make you aware of issues and eliminate overlooked repairs hassles that might hold-up a closing
Decrease the possibility of hidden problems that cause sales to flop

Folks are sometimes surprised to discover 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 thought they would get. Others have an an overestimated assessment of the value of their home, by getting an appraisal it helped them to to set a more reasonable price their home allowing them to quickly sell it rather than 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

Get a comprehensive appraisal before listing

Even if you have with a very skilled agent, it's in your best interest to have an objective third-party's opinion of your home's value to signing a listing agreement. Collins Appraisals can help. We can provide you with a pre-listing appraisal so both you and your agent have a definitive description of your home's features and a detailed analysis of the newest and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

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

Don't need a full appraisal but are looking for information about how real estate is doing in your area? If you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you need some help collecting local property and sales data. We offer services designed for the needs of consumers like you to assist with your real estate decisions.

This is a little bit of what you can expect when you order an appraisal through ....

We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a immediate response: We will give you personalized information for your individual appraisal need. We'll be more then happy to give you suggestions, just let us know what your situation is
Quick turnarounds for appraisals: Typically 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.
Consulting and Appraisal report formats to suit YOUR needs: We've preformed quite a few of assignments, and we know that when it comes real estateconsulting and appraising there is no typical or standard, "cookie cutter" assignment. We provide quite a few different of report types, and are experts at providing appraisals to clients 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 Collins Appraisals: Documents we deliver are written in plain English, easy to understand, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. If you have any inquiries dealing your appraisal, after you've read through the report, just give us a call or email us!