Attention homeowners in Buckeye and Maricopa County: Get an Appraisal today!

The top 7 reasons AZ homeowners order from Informed Appraisals:

  1. Pre-listing appraisals (whether they're selling the home themselves or using an agent)
  2. To challenge a AZ property tax assessment
  3. Remove PMI to lower a mortgage payment
  4. To reinstate your Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
  5. To review a different appraiser's report for verification
  6. In the case of a AZ divorce, when property needs to be divided
  7. Settle an estate in AZ by determining the true market value of real estate in question

Do you own a home in or near Buckeye? Do you need help determining the price of your real estate?
Contact Informed Appraisals.

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

Pre-listing Services/For Sale By Owner

Since you have an emotional attachment to your own 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. A professional appraisal is a very important negotiating tool once you have an interested buyer, in addition to helping you set a realistic selling price so your house will attract many interested buyers. It gives you something tangible to show the buyer. An appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your house's price -- not just you saying how much your house is worth. Potential buyers assume you have an emotional attachment to your house and will be more likely to give credibility to an accomplished appraiser's value report than yours.

Need to remove PMI?

PMI stands for Private Mortgage Insurance. A fashionable money saver 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 amount is down below 80% of the value of your house. In most cases you can apply to a lender to have the PMI removed from your loan. We are experienced in helping homeowners just like you do away with unwanted and unneeded PMI insurance.

Challenging a property tax assessment

If you live in an area that is going down or not appreciating as much as other houses nearby, your local tax assessor may have your home overvalued. That only means you are most likely 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. When contesting your property tax assessment, getting an expert appraisal from Informed Appraisals is your #1 weapon.

Was your HELOC recently frozen?

Even if your specific property has not declined in value, your lender just might make the decision to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your property is in or near a declining area. This can this be difficult and inconvenient from a cash flow standpoint, and unfavorable to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out. Informed Appraisals can help you reinstate your HELOC.

Do You Need Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services?

Have you just received a copy of your appraisal and you would like to have a veteran appraiser double-check it for preciseness or do you want a second opinion without the expense and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Informed Appraisals offers field reviews where we'll go out and check the subject and comparables. Or, if you're in a rush, we can 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 report? Informed Appraisals can help with that too. Even though this is usually requested by banks, you may want to utilize this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your property.