Real estate appraisal services for homeowners in the city of Pleasant Hill and Contra Costa County

Here are the top seven reasons CA homeowners need Appraisal Expediters:

To get a pre-listing appraisal (whether they're selling the home themselves or using a real estate agent)
To challenge a CA property tax assessment
To reduce your monthly mortgage payment by removing PMI
Reinstate their Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
Verify a different appraiser's report
If real estate property needs to be divided because of a divorce
To determine the true market value of real estate in question to settle an estate in Contra Costa County or the state of CA

Own a house in or near Pleasant Hill, CA and need help deciding the price of it?
Contact Appraisal Expediters.

At Appraisal Expediters, we understand the particular needs of a homeowner in need of appraisal services. While our typical business clients understand the appraisal process and standard reporting formats, you as a consumer will get extra customer service in the form of an explanation of the process and even special consumer-friendly reporting forms if the assignment allows for them.

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

Since you have an emotional attachment to your home, it's often very hard to be objective about it. Our professional appraisers at Appraisal Expediters are objective. We won't just tell you what you want to hear, we'll tell you what you need to know. In addition to helping you set a realistic selling price so your house will attract many interested buyers, a professional appraisal is a very valuable negotiating tool once you have an attainable buyer. It gives you something tangible to show your buyer. It's an independent third party's opinion of your property's value, and not just how much you think your house is worth. Potential buyers know that you have an emotional attachment to your home and will be much more likely to give credibility to a qualified appraiser's value assessment than yours.

Need to remove PMI?

PMI stands for Private Mortgage Insurance. A fashionable way to cut expenses for homeowners is getting the PMI removed from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. Your monthly payments will go down once your mortgage loan amount is down below 80% of the value of your home. In most cases you can apply to your lender to have the PMI removed from your loan. We're qualified in helping clients just like you abolish unwanted and unneeded PMI insurance.

Challenge property tax assessments

Your local tax assessor may have your home overvalued if you live in a region that's declining. This only means you're paying higher taxes than you should be paying. Since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period, the sooner you take care of things like this, the better. Getting a professional appraisal from Appraisal Expediters is your number one weapon when contesting your property tax assessment.

Was your HELOC recently frozen?

Even if your specific property has not declined in value, your lender just might choose to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your property is near a declining area. This can be be harmful to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out, and also troublesome from a cash flow viewpoint. A professional appraisal from Appraisal Expediters can help you reinstate your HELOC.

We Provide Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services

Do you need a seasoned professional to double-check your appraisal for preciseness, or do you want a second opinion without the cost and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Appraisal Expediters offers field reviews where we go out and check the subject and comps. Or, if you're in a hurry, we can provide desk review and verify as many facts as we can using online data sources as well as our own files.

We can also provide a retrospective review of any appraisal report you may have in your possession. While usually requested by banks, you may need to exploit this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your home.