Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Lukas Rhodes will ensure you get it right.

If you're going to sell your home, you should seriously consider a professional appraisal. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it pays in the long run! Unless a homeowner makes a career out of studying real estate values, like a professional appraiser does, it's difficult for them to understand local real estate values.

While important, an appraisal is not about how much you've spent buying and improving your home, or how much you want to sell it for. Instead, an appraisal assesses your home's market value.

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

Need help setting a price when selling yourself?

More and more PA homeowners are deciding to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the help of a real estate agent. But to do it right, with minimal waiting and for top dollar, you need a skilled appraiser. You need objective opinions, we're human too, we understand its difficult difficult to be objective about your own home because of your emotional attachment to it. We will tell you what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

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

  • Be a very useful bargaining tool while speaking with a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of the condition of your home inside and out
  • Call attention to any issues and eliminate overlooked repairs hassles that might delay a closing
  • Help lower the possibility of unidentified problems that cause sales to go up in smoke

Folks are sometimes surprised when they find out the value of their home is quite a bit more than they thought. So spending a little on an appraisal allowed them to get thousands more than they originally thought. Alternatively, some people have an overestimated assessment of their home's value, and an appraisal gave then the assistance they needed in order to realistically price their home in order for it to sell quickly rather than sitting on the market for months. An overpriced home will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, which can waste your valuable time and drain your resources while getting nothing done

Get a comprehensive appraisal before listing

You may have an extremely experienced agent but it's in your best interest to have an objective third-party's opinion of your home's value to signing a listing agreement. Let Lukas Rhodes help. An appraisal can be invaluable in this scenario. It will give both you and your agent a comprehensive description for the unique features of your property and give you insight into how the local real estate market is performing with a record of the latest comparable properties in the area.

Sometimes it's useful to have a general resource for local real estate knowledge

Not wanting to get an entire appraisal but still need some information about how the real estate market is doing in your area? Maybe you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you still want assistance gathering local property and sales data. We can help solve your real estate dilemmas with services especially designed for clients with your real estate needs.

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

  • We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a fast response: We will provide you with information tailored for your individual appraisal need. We'll be thrilled to give you suggestions, just tell us what your situation is
  • Swift turnaround time: Usually in a weeks time or less from the date the request is received, we can have a PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Appraisal and consulting report arrangements to suit YOUR needs: When dealing with appraisal and consulting, "One size does NOT fit all." We provide a variety of report types, and have an abundance of experience at providing appraisals to clients without a lot of industry jargon so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
  • Any follow up questions? You can expect a fast follow-up from Lukas Rhodes: When we deliver a report to our clients, we make sure they are clearly written, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. Should you have any inquiries regarding your appraisal, once you've read through the report, feel free to give us a call or email us!