Attention homeowners in Greenville and Greenville County: Need an appraisal?

The top seven reasons why SC homeowners order from Five Star Appraisals:

To get a pre-listing appraisal (whether they're selling the home on their own or using a real estate agent)
Challenge property tax assessments
To lower a mortgage payment by removing PMI
Reinstate your Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
Verify a different appraiser's report
If real estate needs to be divided because of a divorce
To determine the true market value of property in question to settle an estate in Greenville county or SC

Do you own a house in or near Greenville? Do you need help determining the price of your real estate?
Contact Five Star Appraisals.

At Five Star Appraisals, we understand the particular needs of a homeowner seeking appraisal services. The appraisal process and reporting formats are relatively routine to our business clients like banks, attorneys, and CPAs. Being a consumer that most likely doesn't look at appraisals every day,you'll receive extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to better understand what we do and how we document our conclusions.

For Sale By Owner (FSBO)/Pre-Listing Services

It's very hard to be objective about your own home because you probably have an emotional attachment to it. Professional appraisers, like the ones at Five Star Appraisals, will be objective. We 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 house will attract many interested buyers, a professional appraisal is very important as a negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer. The appraisal is something tangible to show your buyer. It's an independent third party's opinion of your house's price, and not just you saying how much your house is worth. Interested buyers know you have an emotional attachment to your house and will be far more likely to give credibility to an expert appraiser's value assessment than yours.

Need to remove PMI?

An attractive money saver for homeowners is to get the PMI eliminated from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. PMI stands for "Private Mortgage Insurance". Your monthly payments will go down once your mortgage loan is down below 80% of the value of your house. In most cases you can apply to your lender to have the PMI removed from your loan. Five Star Appraisals is qualified in helping customers just like you do away with unwanted and unneeded PMI insurance.

Challenge Tax Assessment

If you live in a local area that is declining or not appreciating as much as other homes nearby, your local tax assessor may have your home overvalued. This only means you are probably paying higher taxes than you should be paying. The earlier you take care of a matter like this, the better off you'll be, since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period. When challenging your property tax assessment, getting an expert appraisal from Five Star Appraisals is your perfect weapon.

HELOC recently frozen?

Even if your specific property has not declined in value, your lender may just make the decision to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your property is in a declining area. This can this be difficult from a cash flow viewpoint, and damaging to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out. Five Star Appraisals can provide you with a professional appraisal to help you reinstate your home equity line of credit.

Need Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services?

Would you wish a second opinion without the cost and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Or do you desire an expert to double-check your appraisal for precision? Five Star Appraisals offers field reviews where we go out and check the subject and comps. 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.

Need a retrospective review of an appraisal? We can help with that too. Even though this is usually requested by banks, you may desire to use this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your property.