Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Lipka Appraisal Service Inc. will ensure you get it right.

If you're planning on selling your home soon, a professional appraisal is absolutely necessary. Don't think of a professional appraisal as costing money; it pays you in the long run! Unless the homeowner makes a career out of studying real estate values, like a professional appraiser does, it's hard for them to fully grasp real estate market forces.

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 how much your home will bring on the open market.

Contact us for information regarding services specialized for home sellers.

Going to sell your home yourself?

More and more MI homeowners are choosing 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 qualified appraiser. The best thing to have is objective opinions, we're human too, we understand its difficult hard to take an objective look at own home because of your emotional attachment to it. We will tell you what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

Not only will getting a professional appraisal help you set a realistic selling price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Allow you to have the edge while negotiating when you find a potential buyer
  • Put buyers at ease with written proof of the condition of your home's interior and exterior
  • Make you aware of issues and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might delay a closing
  • Lower the odds of unidentified problems that cause sales to deteriorate

People are surprised when they find out their home's value is higher than they first thought. So investing in a professional appraisal allowed them to get thousands more than they could have gotten originally. Others have an an overestimated assessment of their home's value, and an appraisal gave then the assistance they needed in order to set a more reasonable price their home allowing them to quickly sell it rather than sitting on the market for months. Selling too high rarely attracts buyers, which means no offers and no closing, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

Pre-listing appraisals in Marlette

Even if you're working with the most experienced agent, it's definitely a good idea to get an objective third-party's opinion of value prior to signing a listing agreement. And that's where Lipka Appraisal Service Inc. comes in. We can furnish you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have an accurate summarizing of your home's characteristics and a detailed breakdown of the latest and similar comparable sales which we typically refer to as "comps" in the appraisal industry.

Consulting services for MI Sellers: Keep a local expert at your disposal

Not wanting to get an entire appraisal but are looking for information about how real estate is doing in your area? If you feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you'd still like some help gathering local sales and property data. We can provide assistance for your real estate concerns with services especially designed for customers with your real estate needs.

After you order an appraisal report from us, you can expect....

  • We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a response ASAP: We will give you personalized information for your individual appraisal need. We'll be more then happy to provide suggestions, just let us know what your situation is
  • Quick turnaround time: Normally 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 formats that suit YOUR needs: We've worked on quite a few of assignments, and we understand that in the art of real estateappraising there isn't a typical or standard, "generic" assignment. We provide a variety of report types, and have know how at providing appraisals to consumers that keep the industry jargon to a minimum in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
  • Fast reply to follow-up questions: Documents we deliver are clearly written, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that moderates the appraisal practice. Should you have any questions regarding your appraisal, after you've read through the report, feel free to give us a call or email us!