Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Natalie Nelson Appraisal will ensure you get it right.

If you're planning on selling your home soon, an appraisal is absolutely necessary. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it pays you in the long run! Unless the homeowner spends hours every week on real estate valuation, like a professional appraiser does, it's hard 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 how much you want for it. Rather, a appraisal provides a professional opinion on how much your home will bring on the open market.

Contact us for details regarding services specialized for home sellers.

Selling on your own?

Quite a few IA homeowners are making the decision 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. 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 inform you of what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

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

  • Be a very valuable negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of your home's condition inside and out
  • Alert you of issues and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might delay a closing
  • Lower the odds of unidentified problems that cause sales to go up in smoke

It can be surprising to people to discover their home's value is much more than they thought. So investing in an appraisal allowed them to get several thousand more than they thought they would get. Alternatively, some people have an overestimated opinion of the value of their home, and an appraisal gave then the assistance they needed in order to realistically price their home allowing them to quickly sell it rather than sitting on the market for months. Selling too high will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

We also help agents price homes in Linn County

Even if you're working with a very skillful agent, it's in your best interest to get an unbiased second opinion of your home's value to finalizing a listing agreement. And that's where Natalie Nelson Appraisal comes in. An appraisal can be invaluable in this scenario. You and agent will get a comprehensive description of the unique features of your property and give you insight into how the local real estate market is performing with a record of recent comparable properties in the area.

Consulting services for Linn County Sellers: Have a local expert at your disposal

Have you decided against a full 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 still want assistance collecting local sales and property data. We can provide assistance for your real estate dilemmas with services especially tailored for clients with your real estate needs.

This is a little bit of what you can expect when you order an appraisal through ....

  • Prompt response to your initial inquiry: We tailor information to the needs of our customers Just explain your situation and we will make suggestions.
  • Swift turnarounds for appraisals: Usually in a weeks time or less from the date we receive the request, you'll have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Consulting and Appraisal report formats to suit YOUR needs: We've worked on a large amount of assignments, and we understand that whether it's real estateappraising there is no typical or standard, "generic" report. We offer quite a few different of types of reports, and have an abundance of experience at providing appraisals to clients sans the in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
  • Fast to follow-up questions: Reports we write are written in plain English, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that moderates the appraisal practice. Should you have any inquiries dealing your appraisal, once you've read the report, we suggest that you email or call us!