Selling your home in or near La Plata County? Contact For What It's Worth Appraisals and make sure you're setting the price right.

Selling your home? You would be wise to invest in a professional appraisal. Don't think of a professional appraisal as costing money; it pays you in the long run! Unless a homeowner studies real estate values on a day to day basis, like an appraiser, it's difficult for them to fully grasp their local real estate market.

While important, an appraisal is not about how much you have invested in your home, or the amount you'd like to get for it. Rather, an appraisal assesses how much your home will bring on the open market.

Contact us for any questions regarding our specialized services for home sellers.

For Sale By Owner?

An increasing amount of CO 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, with minimal waiting and to get the most you can, what you need is a skilled appraiser. It can be very difficult to get objective opinions, and we understand that it's difficult to be objective about your 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.

In addition to helping you set a realistic selling price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Be a very beneficial negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of your home's condition inside and out
  • Make you aware of issues and get rid of any overlooked repairs hassles that might delay a closing
  • Help decrease the chances of unknown problems that cause sales to flop

People are surprised when they find out the value of their home is higher than they first thought. So by taking the first step and spending a little on an appraisal allowed them to receive thousands more than they expected they would get. Others have an an inflated opinion of the value of their home, by getting an appraisal it helped them to to set a more reasonable price their home allowing them to quickly sell it rather than gathering dust 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 La Plata County

You may have a very talented agent but it's in your best interest to get of value prior to signing a listing agreement. And that's where For What It's Worth Appraisals comes in. We can furnish you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have a precise summarizing of your home's characteristics and a detailed analysis of the newest and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

Serving Durango with unmatched real estate consulting services

Have you decided against a full appraisal but still need some information about how real estate is doing in your area? You might feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you still want some help collecting local property and sales data. We can provide assistance for your real estate quandaries with services especially designed for customers with your real estate needs.

If your curious what to expect from when ordering an appraisal just take a look....

  • Prompt response to your initial inquiry: We will give you information tailored for your particular appraisal need. Just let us know your situation and provide suggestions.
  • Quick turnarounds on appraisals: Normally one week or less from the date the request is received, you'll have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Appraisal and consulting report formats to suit YOUR needs: We've preformed quite a few of assignments, and we've learned that whether it's real estateappraising it's naive to think there's a typical or standard, "cookie cutter" assignment. We offer quite a few different of report types, 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.
  • Prompt reply to follow-up questions: Documents we deliver are written in plain English, easy to understand, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that regulates the appraisal practice. If you have any inquiries regarding your appraisal, after you've read the report, we suggest that you email or call us!