Is a Pre-listing Appraisal Still a Good Idea?

Should I Get a Pre-listing Appraisal? I recently ran across an article where a homeowner was asking a real estate agent whether they should get a pre-listing appraisal on their home prior to selling. The answer the agent gave interested me because it contained numerous errors and misunderstandings about appraising and appraisals. I have been […]

Hey, if the market is so hot why didn’t my home appraise?

A Hot Market is not a Guarantee Your Home Will Appraise In a hot market like we have now a low appraisal should be the least of our worries, right? Wrong. There are still some people asking “why didn’t my home appraise?”. It should never be considered a given that just because we’re in a […]

Do I Need a Pre-Purchase Appraisal?

What is a pre-purchase appraisal? Many of you may have read my posts in the past about pre-listing appraisals but this is the first time I’ve written about the pre-purchase appraisal. They sound similar but are they? Let me explain what they are and why I’m writing about them. A pre-purchase appraisal is not done […]

Is a Birmingham Home Appraisal Worth the Money?

A Birmingham Home Appraisal May Be In Your Future Well, 2017 is behind us and 2018 is ahead of us. A new year brings new opportunities and new possibilities. These may come in the form of selling your current home so that you can move up to your dream home or maybe you need to […]

How Do I Know If My Home is Priced Accurately?

Do You Wonder if Your Home is Priced Accurately? It’s a fact that one of the biggest reasons a home doesn’t sell is that it’s not priced right. By this, I mean that it is priced too high. If it is priced low, or below the market, it will sell quickly so that is not […]

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