Montgomery County Home Appraisal: Why You Should Get One

By Paul Reynolds


Setting the correct price for your homestead is one of the most important steps to selling a house. If a price is placed too high, your residential property could be sitting on the market for months without receiving a buyer forcing you to cut the price down. If your property is priced too low, then you may be leaving money on the table when you accept an offer. Although many homestead sellers opt to go through the Montgomery county Home Appraisal process on own, in a tough market, it helps to have an appraiser on your side to give you an unbiased opinion.

Here are a few reasons that a professional appraisal may be a good idea, and tips on how such a report is used when selling:

Under this method an independent and experienced appraiser is hired to come to your house, carry out a close scrutiny and eventually come up with a comprehensive report. This procedure may take several hours or even days and at times the professional appraiser may be require to accompany his report with pictures as visual evidence for materiality of his report.

Real estate agents valuation is another category. This involves hiring the services of a real estate agent to carry out a valuation of your residential asset. This is accredited as a very convenient choice especially due to the fact that most estate agents are very experienced in this field. As compared to an outsider carrying out the residential property audit for you, a real estate agent is usually more versed with your neighborhood and hence he will tend to give more reliable and factual information.

If you are selling a homestead you will need to assess its value. Why? The biggest factor in selling a homestead is the price. If you want to sell your homestead fast you need to price it right. I don't care if the homestead is ugly as sin, if the price is right it will sell.

What's In The Report? An appraisal report should not be confused with a homestead inspection report although both may have similar sections and details. A homestead inspection report provides a detailed inventory of structural and functional issues in your homestead, so that you can address them or have them reported during the course of the sale. A value assessment report will show many of these same structural and functional problems because they affect price.

In fact, the report will provide a detailed report of all the things that were considered in pricing your homestead and may also conclude how long it may take to sell in its current condition. For example, a value assessment will show the number of bedrooms and bathrooms the house includes, its square footage, the condition of the homestead's interior and exterior with an eye for repairs, and then it will compare all of this to comparable homesteads that are being sold within the neighborhood.

In the assessment, the appraisers also compare the attractiveness of the neighborhood itself including its proximity to schools, whether these schools are considered favorable, the distance the homestead is from amenities, and how many homesteads are being sold currently, including foreclosures and short sales.




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