Selling your home in or near Orange County? Contact Linda Torrey and make sure you're setting the price right.

Selling your home? You would be wise to invest in an appraisal. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it's worth the money in the long run! Unless a homeowner makes a career out of studying real estate values, like an appraiser, it's practically impossible for them to get a handle on local real estate values.

While important, an appraisal is not about how much you have invested in your home, or how much you want for it. Rather, a appraisal provides a professional opinion on your home's market value.

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

Appraisals are valuable tools for families selling without an agent

More and more VT homeowners are making the decision to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the help of a real estate agent. But to do it right, quickly and to get the most you can, what you need is a expert appraiser. It can be very difficult to get objective opinions, we're human too, we understand its difficult difficult 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 realistic selling price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Be a very useful negotiating tool when you find a potential buyer
  • Put buyers at ease with written proof of the interior and exterior condition of your home
  • Make you aware of problems and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might hold-up a closing
  • Lower the chances of hidden problems that cause sales to fall through

It can be surprising to people when they find out that their home's value is more than they originally believed. So spending a little on 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 of the value of their home, by getting an appraisal it gave then the assistance they needed in order to realistically price their home in order for it to sell quickly rather than gathering dust on the market for months. Selling too high will not attract buyers, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, which can waste your valuable time and drain your resources while getting nothing done

Pre-listing appraisals in Strafford

You might have a highly skilled agent but it's in your best interest to have an objective third-party's opinion of your home's value to signing a listing agreement. And that's where Linda Torrey comes in. An appraisal can be extremely helpful in a scenario like this. It will give both you and your agent a detailed description 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.

Serving Orange County with the greatest real estate consulting services

Don't need an entire appraisal but still need some information about the real estate market in your area? Maybe you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you'd still like assistance gathering local sales and property data. We can be a resource for your real estate decisions with services especially designed for consumers with your real estate needs.

This is a little bit of what you can expect when you place an order for an appraisal from ....

  • We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a response ASAP: We will give you information tailored for your particular appraisal need. Just tell us your situation and give you suggestions.
  • Fast turnarounds for appraisals: Normally in a weeks time or less from the date the request is received, we can have a PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Consulting and Appraisal report arrangements to suit YOUR needs: When dealing with appraisal and consulting, "One size does NOT fit all." We provide a variety of report types, and have know how at providing appraisals to clients that keep the industry jargon to a minimum in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
  • Quick reply to follow-up questions: Reports we create are written in plain English, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that regulates the appraisal practice. Should you have any questions dealing your appraisal, once you've read the report, we suggest that you email or call us!