Real estate appraisal services for homeowners in the city of Calabasas and Los Angeles County

Here are the top seven reasons CA homeowners need California Certified Appraisers:

  1. To get a pre-listing appraisal (whether they're selling the home themselves or using an agent)
  2. Challenge Los Angeles county's assessment of your property
  3. Remove PMI to lower a mortgage payment
  4. Reinstate their Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
  5. Review a different appraiser's report for verification
  6. If property needs to be divided because of a divorce
  7. To determine the true market value of real estate in question to settle an estate in Los Angeles County or the state of CA

Need help deciding the value of your house in or near Calabasas, CA?
Contact California Certified Appraisers.

We at California Certified Appraisers understand the special needs of a consumer seeking appraisal services. The appraisal process and reporting formats are relatively routine to our business clients like banks, lawyers, and accountants. Being a person not in the real estate business that ordinarily doesn't see an appraisal every day,you can expect extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to better understand what we do and how we report the results of our analysis.

Pre-listing Services/For Sale By Owner

Since you have an emotional attachment to your own house, 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 property will attract buyers, a professional appraisal is very valuable as a negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer. It's something concrete to show your buyer. The appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your property's price, not just you saying how much your house is worth. Potential buyers assume that you have an emotional attachment to your house and will be much more likely to give credibility to a qualified appraiser's value opinion than yours.

PMI Removal Appraisals

PMI stands for Private Mortgage Insurance. A popular way to cut expenses for homeowners is getting the PMI eliminated from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. Your monthly payments will go down once your mortgage loan amount is less than 80% of the value of your house. In most cases you can apply to your lender to have the PMI eliminated from your loan. California Certified Appraisers is qualified in helping people just like you get rid of unneeded and unwanted PMI insurance.

Challenge a property tax assessment

Lets say you live in a region that is declining -- your local tax assessor may have your house overvalued. This means you are probably paying higher taxes than you should be paying. The sooner you take care of things like this, the better, since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period. Getting a professional appraisal from California Certified Appraisers is your chief weapon when challenging your property tax assessment.

Recently got a freeze your HELOC?

Your lender might just choose to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your house is in a declining area -- even if your specific property has not declined in value. This can be be damaging to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out, and also annoying from a cash flow point of view. California Certified Appraisers can help you reinstate your HELOC.

Need Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services?

Would you like a second opinion without the charge and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Or do you desire an expert to double-check your appraisal for precision? California Certified Appraisers offers field reviews where we go out and check the subject and comparables in question. If you need it ASAP, we'll provide desk review and verify as many facts as we can using online data sources as well as our own files.

Need a retrospective review of an appraisal report? We can We can assist you While typically requested by banks, you may wish to make use of this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your house.