Appraisal services for Mc Lean and Fairfax County homeowners

The top reasons VA homeowners need Alan Weinberg:

  1. Find the right listing price (whether you're using an agent or selling the home on your own)
  2. Challenge Fairfax county's assessment of your propertyvalue
  3. Remove PMI to reduce their mortgage payments
  4. To reinstate your Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
  5. Verify another appraiser's report
  6. If property needs to be divided because of a divorce
  7. Settle an estate in VA by determining the true market value of property in question

Need help determining the value of your home in or near Mc Lean, VA?
Contact Alan Weinberg.

At Alan Weinberg, we understand the individual needs of a homeowner looking for appraisal services. The appraisal process and reporting formats are familiar to our business clients like lenders, attorneys, and CPAs. But as a general consumer,we will give you extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to more fully understand what we do and how we report our conclusions.

For Sale By Owner/Pre-Listing Services

Since you have an emotional attachment to your home, it's often very hard to be objective about it. A professional appraiser is objective and 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 property will attract many interested buyers, a professional appraisal is a crucial negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer. It gives you something concrete to show your buyer. The appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your property's price, not just how much your house is worth. Potential buyers assume that you have an emotional attachment to your home and will be far more likely to give credibility to an expert appraiser's value judgement than yours.

PMI Removal Appraisals

A fashionable way to cut expenses for homeowners is to get the PMI removed from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. PMI stands for "Private Mortgage Insurance". Once your mortgage loan amount is below 80% of the value of your property, in most cases you can apply to a lender to have the PMI removed from your loan, which will make your monthly payments go down. We are qualified in helping people just like you dismiss unwanted and unneeded PMI insurance.

Challenge a property tax assessment

Your local tax assessor may have your house overvalued if you live in a local area that is declining. This only means you are probably paying higher taxes than you should be paying. The faster you take care of a matter like this, the better, since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period. When challenging your property tax assessment, getting an expert appraisal from Alan Weinberg is your number one weapon.

HELOC recently frozen?

Your lender may decide to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your house is near a declining area -- even if your specific property has not declined in value. Not only can this be disadvantageous from a cash flow point of view, but it can be detrimental to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out. Alan Weinberg can provide you with efficient appraisal to help you reinstate your HELOC.

Need Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services?

Do you need an expert to double-check your appraisal for preciseness, or do you desire a second opinion without the cost and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Alan Weinberg offers field reviews where we go out and check the subject and comparables in question. 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.

Need a retrospective review of an appraisal report? We can help with that too. While typically requested by banks, you may want to exploit this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your property.