Attention homeowners in Macon and Bibb County: Need an appraisal?

The top 7 reasons GA homeowners call on JeffCorbett:

  1. Get a pre-listing appraisal (whether they're selling the home themselves or using an agent)
  2. To challenge a GA property tax assessment
  3. To lower your mortgage payment by removing PMI
  4. To reinstate their Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
  5. Verify another appraiser's report
  6. If real estate needs to be divided because of a divorce
  7. Determine the true market value of real estate in question to settle an estate in GA

Need help determining the value of your house in or near Macon, GA?
Contact JeffCorbett.

We at JeffCorbett understand the unique needs of a homeowner after 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.

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

Since you have an emotional attachment to your own home, it's often very hard to be objective about it. Professional appraisers, like the ones at JeffCorbett, are 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 price to sell at so your property will attract many interested buyers, a professional appraisal is a very important negotiating tool once you have an interested buyer. It gives you something tangible to show the buyer. The appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your home's value, not just how much you think your home is worth. Interested buyers know that you have an emotional attachment to your house and will be more likely to give credibility to a seasoned appraiser's value conclusion than yours.

Appraisals to remove PMI

PMI stands for Private Mortgage Insurance. An attractive way to save money for homeowners is to get the PMI canceled from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. Your monthly payments will go down once your mortgage loan amount is below 80% of the value of your home. In most cases you can apply to a lender to have the PMI canceled from your loan. We're veterans in helping consumers just like you rid yourselves of unneeded and unwanted PMI insurance.

Challenge property tax assessments

If you live in an area that is declining or is not appreciating as much as other homes nearby, your local tax assessor may have your house overvalued. That only means you are going to pay more taxes than you should. The sooner you take care of things like this, the better, since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period. An appraisal report from JeffCorbett is your chief weapon when challenging your property tax assessment.

HELOC recently frozen?

Your lender just might decide to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your house is in or near a declining area -- even if your specific property has not declined in value. This can this be difficult and inconvenient from a cash flow viewpoint, and bad for your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out. A professional appraisal from JeffCorbett can help you reinstate your HELOC.

Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services

Would you like a second opinion without the added expense and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Or do you desire a seasoned appraiser to double-check your appraisal for verity? We can go out and check the subject and comps in a field review. If you need it in a rush, we'll provide desk review and verify as many facts as we can using online data sources as well as our own files.

Do you need a retrospective review of an appraisal? JeffCorbett can We can assist you. Even though this is usually requested by banks, you may want to utilize this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your home.