Selling your home in or near Shelby County? Contact BOB'S APPRAISAL SERVICE and make sure you're setting the price right.

If you're going to sell your home, you should seriously consider a professional appraisal. Don't think of an appraisal as purely an expense; it pays in the long run! Unless a homeowner spends hours every week on real estate valuation, like an appraiser, it's difficult for them to fully grasp their local real estate market.

It's tempting to want to base your home's value on how much you've spent buying and improving your home, or the amount you'd like to get for it. Instead, an appraisal assesses how much your home will bring on the open market. At the end of the day, your house is only worth the price another person is offering to give you.


	Contact us for information regarding the specific services for home sellers we offer.

Selling yourself instead of using a real estate agent and need help with pricing?

More and more Tennessee homeowners are choosing 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, quickly and for top dollar, you need a professional appraisal. It can be very difficult to get an objective opinion, and we understand that it's hard to be objective about your own home because of your emotional attachment to it. We will explain to you what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

Not only will getting a professional appraisal help you set a realistic asking price to attract more potential buyers, a professional appraisal can:

Be a very useful bargaining tool once you have a potential buyer
Impress buyers with written proof of the interior and exterior condition of your home
Make you aware of problems and get rid of any overlooked repairs hassles that might stall a closing
Decrease the odds of unidentified problems that cause sales to go up in smoke

People are surprised to discover the value of their home is quite a bit more than they thought. So investing in a professional appraisal allowed them to get several thousand more than they originally expected. Alternatively, some people have an exaggerated assessment when they put a value on their home, and by getting an appraisal it helped them to to realistically price their home - allowing them to quickly sell it - rather than waiting on the market for months. Asking too much for a home will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, wasting your valuable time and draining your resources while your home sits on the market.

Get a comprehensive appraisal before listing

Even if you have a very skillful agent, it's definitely a good idea to have an objective third-party's opinion of value prior to finalizing a listing agreement. And that's where BOB'S APPRAISAL SERVICE comes in. We can furnish you with a pre-listing appraisal so both you and your agent have a precise writeup of your home's characteristics and a detailed breakdown of the the latest and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

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

If you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you'd still like some help collecting local property and sales data, we can be a resource for your real estate concerns 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 us...

Fast response to your initial inquiry: We will provide you with personalized information for your individual appraisal need. We'll be more then happy to give you suggestions - just let us know what your situation is.
Quick turnaround on appraisals: Typically in a week's time or less from the date the request is received, you'll have a PDF ready for you to download from our site or in your e-mail.
Appraisal and consulting report presentations to suit YOUR needs: When dealing with appraisal and consulting, one size does NOT fit all. We offer a variety of types of reports and are skilled at providing appraisals to clients that keep the industry jargon to a minimum and in an easy to read format with consumers in mind.
Any follow up questions? You can expect a quick response from BOB'S APPRAISAL SERVICE: When we create reports, we make sure they are clearly written, easy to understand, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that regulates the appraisal practice. Should you have any questions regarding your appraisal once you've read the report, feel free to give us a call or email us!