Selling your home in or near Kent County? Contact Carlson Appraisal Services and make sure you're setting the price right.

If you're planning on selling your home soon, a professional appraisal is absolutely necessary. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it pays you in the long run! Unless the homeowner makes a career out of studying real estate values, like an appraiser, it's hard for them to get a handle on local real estate values.

While important, an appraisal is not about the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or how much you want to sell it for. Instead, the appraisal measures your home's market value.

Contact us for details regarding the specific services we offer for home sellers.

Selling yourself instead of using a real estate agent and need help with pricing?

Quite a few MI homeowners are deciding to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the help of a real estate agent. But if you're going to do it right, with minimal waiting and to get the most you can, you need a professional appraisal. 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 inform you of what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

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

  • Be a very valuable negotiating tool when you find a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of your home's condition inside and out
  • Call attention to any issues and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might stall a closing
  • Decrease the possibility of unknown problems that cause sales to deteriorate

It can be surprising to people when they find out that the value of their home is higher than they first thought. So by taking the first step and investing in an appraisal provided the data to support a sale for several thousand more than they expected they would get. Others have an an exaggerated opinion when they put a value on their home, by getting an appraisal it helped them to to realistically price their home in order for it to sell quickly rather than waiting on the market for months. An overpriced home will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, which can waste your valuable time and drain your resources while getting nothing done

We also help agents price homes in Kent County

Even if you're working with a very skilled agent, it's definitely a good idea to have an unbiased second opinion of value prior to signing a listing agreement. And that's where Carlson Appraisal Services comes in. An appraisal can be indispensable in this scenario. It will give both you and your agent a detailed breakdown of your property and its features and give you insight into the health of the local real estate market with a record of recent comparable properties in the area.

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

Not wanting to get an entire appraisal but would like some information about how real estate is doing in your area? Maybe you feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you require some help collecting local sales and property data. We can provide assistance for your real estate concerns with services especially designed for consumers with your real estate needs.

If your curious what you'll be getting from us when ordering an appraisal just take a look....

  • Prompt response to your initial inquiry: We tailor information to the needs of our clients We'll be thrilled to provide suggestions, just let us know what your situation is
  • Fast turnaround time: Typically one week or less from the date the request is received, we can have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Consulting and Appraisal report arrangements that suit YOUR needs: When it comes to appraisal and consulting, "One size does NOT fit all." We offer quite a few different of report types, and are skillful at providing appraisals to clients without so much of industry jargon in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
  • Quick to follow-up questions: Our reports are written in plain English, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that regulates the appraisal practice. Should you have any questions about your appraisal, after you've read through the report, we suggest that you email or call us!