Attention homeowners in Frisco and Collin County: Need an appraisal?

The top seven reasons TX homeowners hire Appraisal Advantage Group:

  1. Get a pre-listing appraisal (whether you're using an agent or selling the home on your own)
  2. Challenge property tax assessments
  3. Remove PMI to lower their mortgage payments
  4. To reinstate your Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
  5. To review another appraiser's report for verification
  6. In the case of a TX divorce, when property needs to be divided
  7. Settle an estate in TX by determining the true market value of property in question

Do you own a house in or near Frisco? Do you need help determining the price of your real estate?
Contact Appraisal Advantage Group.

We at Appraisal Advantage Group understand the unique needs of a homeowner after appraisal services. The appraisal process and reporting formats are relatively routine to our business clients like lenders, attorneys, and accountants. But as a general consumer,we will give you extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to more fully understand what we do and how we present the results of our analysis.

For Sale By Owner/Pre-Listing Services

Since you have an emotional attachment to your home, it's often very hard to be objective about it. A professional appraiser is objective and 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 house will attract interested buyers, a professional appraisal is a very valuable negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer. The appraisal is something concrete to show your buyer. An appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your house's value -- not just you saying how much you think your house is worth. Interested buyers assume you have an emotional attachment to your home and will be far more likely to give credibility to a professional appraiser's value opinion than yours.

Appraisals to cancel PMI

PMI stands for Private Mortgage Insurance. A popular way to save money for homeowners is getting 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 your lender to have the PMI canceled from your loan. We are experienced in helping people just like you rid yourselves of unneeded PMI insurance.

Challenge Tax Assessment

Lets say your home is not appreciating as much as other homes close to yours -- your local tax assessor may have your house overvalued. That means you are probably paying more taxes than you should. Since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period, the faster you take care of a matter like this, the better off you'll be. Getting an appraisal from Appraisal Advantage Group is your #1 weapon when challenging your property tax assessment.

Was your HELOC recently frozen?

Your lender may decide to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your property is near a declining area -- even if your specific property has not declined in value. This can this be difficult and inconvenient from a cash flow viewpoint, and harmful to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out. Appraisal Advantage Group can help you reinstate your HELOC.

Do You Need Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services?

Have you just accepted a copy of your appraisal and you'd wish to have a seasoned professional double-check it for preciseness or do you want a second opinion without the added expense and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? In a field review we'll go out and check the subject and comparables. If you're in a rush, we'll provide 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? Appraisal Advantage Group can help you with that. Even though this is usually requested by banks, you may need to use this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your home.