Attention homeowners in San Anselmo and Marin County: Need an appraisal?

Here are the top seven reasons California homeowners order from Marin Appraisers:

Get a pre-listing appraisal (whether you're using an agent or selling the home on your own)
Challenge a property tax assessment
To reduce a monthly mortgage payment by removing PMI
To reinstate your Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
Verify another appraiser's report
If real estate property needs to be divided because of a divorce
Determine the true market value of the property in question to settle an estate in California


	Do you own a house in or near San Anselmo? Do you need help deciding the value of your real estate? Contact Marin Appraisers.

We at Marin Appraisers understand the special needs of a customer looking for appraisal services. While our usual business clients understand the appraisal process and standard reporting formats, you as a consumer will get an extra level of customer service in the form of an explanation of the process and even special consumer-friendly reporting forms if the assignment allows for them.

For Sale by Owner (FSBO)/Pre-Listing Services

Since you have an emotional attachment to your own house, it's often very hard to be objective about it. Professional appraisers, like the ones at Marin Appraisers, are objective. We will tell you what you need to know, not just what you want to hear. A professional appraisal is a very important negotiating tool once you have a likely buyer, in addition to helping you set a realistic price to sell at so your home will attract interested buyers. The appraisal is something concrete to show the buyer. An appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your house's value -- not just how much your home is worth. Potential buyers know that you have an emotional attachment to your house and will be far more likely to give credibility to a professional appraiser's value report than yours.

Challenge property tax assessments

Your local tax assessor may have your house overvalued if you live in a region that is going down. This only means you're probably paying higher taxes than you should be paying. The faster you take care of things like this, the better, since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period. When contesting your property tax assessment, getting an appraisal report from Marin Appraisers is your chief weapon.

Appraisals to remove PMI

PMI stands for Private Mortgage Insurance. A popular way to save money for homeowners is to get the PMI canceled from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. Your monthly payments will go down once your mortgage loan is down below 80% of the value of your property. In most cases, you can apply to a lender to have the PMI canceled from your loan. Marin Appraisers is qualified in helping consumers just like you do away with undesirable PMI insurance.

HELOC recently frozen?

If your property is in a declining area, your lender might choose to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) - even if your specific property has not declined in value. This can be destructive to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out, and also annoying from a cash flow angle. Marin Appraisers can provide you with an expert appraisal to help you reinstate your HELOC.

Do You Need Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services?

Do you need a veteran appraiser to double-check your appraisal for accuracy, or do you desire a second opinion without the added expense and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Marin Appraisers offers field reviews where we go out and check the subject and comps. Or, if you need it ASAP, we can provide you with a desk review and verify as many facts as we can, using online data sources as well as our own files.

Do you need a retrospective review of an appraisal report? We can help with that too. While typically requested by banks, you may need to employ this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your house.