Getting an appraisal from JLK Appraisals LLC before putting your Elkins Park home on the market saves you time and money.

If you're going to sell your home, you should seriously consider a professional appraisal. Don't think of a professional appraisal as costing money; it pays in the long run! Unless the homeowner studies real estate values on a day to day basis, like a professional appraiser does, it's hard for them to understand the nuances of their local real estate market.

We are not talking about how much you've spent buying and improving your home, or how much you want for it. Instead, an appraisal assesses the true market value of your home.

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

Selling on your own?

More and more PA homeowners are choosing 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, what you need is a professional appraisal. It can be very difficult to get objective opinions, it's very hard 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.

Not only can getting a professional appraisal help you set a astute asking price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Be a very helpful bargaining tool while speaking with a potential buyer
  • Put buyers at ease with written proof of the interior and exterior condition of your home
  • Alert you of problems and eliminate overlooked repairs hassles that might delay a closing
  • Prevent the chances of hidden problems that cause sales to flop

People are surprised when they find out the value of their home is much more than they thought. So by taking the first step and spending a little on an appraisal allowed them to get several thousand more than they originally thought. Others have an an overestimated assessment when they put a value on their home, and an appraisal helped them to to set a more reasonable price their home in order for it to sell quickly rather than waiting on the market for months. Selling too high rarely attracts buyers, which means no offers and no closing, wasting valuable time, money, and efforts.

We also help agents price homes in Montgomery County

Even if you're working with an extremely talented agent, it's in your best interest to get an objective third-party's opinion of value prior to finalizing a listing agreement. Let JLK Appraisals LLC help. We can furnish you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have an accurate writeup of your home's characteristics and a detailed analysis of the newest and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

JLK Appraisals LLC also are available for general consulting

Don't need an entire appraisal but still need some information about the health of your area's real estate? If you feel like an appraisal is not necessary but you still want some help gathering local sales and property data. We can help solve your real estate quandaries with services especially designed for customers with your real estate needs.

This is a little bit of what you can expect when you place an order for an appraisal through ....

  • We take great pride in making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a fast response: We tailor information to the needs of our customers We'll be delighted to give you suggestions, just let us know what your situation is
  • Swift turnarounds on appraisals: Normally one week or less from the date we receive the request, we can have a PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Consulting and Appraisal report arrangements that suit YOUR needs: We've preformed a lot of assignments, and we've learned that when providing real estateappraising it's naive to think there's a typical or standard, "generic" assignment. We provide quite a few different of report types, and have a lot of experience at providing appraisals to clients that keep the industry jargon to a minimum in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
  • Any follow up questions? You can expect a quick follow-up from JLK Appraisals LLC: Reports we write are written in plain English, easy to understand, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. If you have any confusion dealing your appraisal, after you've read through the report, we suggest that you email or call us!