Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Kiesz & Associates, LLC will ensure you get it right.

If you're going to sell your home, you should seriously consider a professional 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 difficult for them to understand the nuances of their local real estate market.

This isn't a discussion of how much you have invested in your home, or how much you want for it. Rather, a appraisal provides a professional opinion on your home's market value.

Contact us for information regarding services specialized for home sellers.

Appraisals are valuable tools for people selling without an agent

Quite a few WA 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, quickly and to get the most you can, what you need is a professional appraisal. It can be very difficult to get objective opinions, it can be very hard 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 sensible selling price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Be a very useful negotiating tool when you find a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of the condition of your home inside and out
  • Alert you of problems and eliminate overlooked repairs hassles that might hold-up a closing
  • Prevent the odds of unrevealed problems that cause sales to flop

People are surprised when they find out the value of their home is much more than they thought. So by taking the first step and spending a little on a professional appraisal provided the data to support a sale for several thousand more than they thought they would get. Alternatively, some people have an inflated impression of the value of their home, and an appraisal helped them to to set a more reasonable price their home in order for it to sell quickly instead of waiting on the market for months. Selling too high rarely attracts buyers, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

Get a professional value opinion before listing

Even if you have with a very skillful agent, it's definitely a good idea to have an unbiased second opinion of your home's value to signing a listing agreement. And that's where Kiesz & Associates, LLC comes in. We can furnish you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have a precise description of your home's characteristics and a detailed breakdown of the most recent and similar comparable sales which we typically refer to as "comps" in the appraisal industry.

Serving Clackamas County with unmatched real estate consulting services

Not sure if you need an entire appraisal but are looking for information about how the real estate market is doing in your area? If you feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you need some help collecting local property and sales data. We can provide assistance for your real estate concerns with services especially tailored for clients with your real estate needs.

Here's what to expect when you place an order for an appraisal through ....

  • Prompt response to your initial inquiry: We will give you personalized information for your particular appraisal need. We'll be delighted to give you suggestions, just let us know what your situation is
  • Quick turnaround time: Usually one week or less from the date we receive the request, we can have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Consulting and Appraisal report arrangements to suit YOUR needs: We've worked on a large amount of assignments, and we understand that in the art of real estateconsulting and appraising there isn't a typical or standard, "cookie cutter" report. We offer many different of types of reports, and have know how at providing appraisals to consumers 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 prompt follow-up from Kiesz & Associates, LLC: 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 regulates the appraisal practice. If you have any confusion dealing your appraisal, after you've read through the report, feel free to give us a call or email us!