Need an appraisal in Front Royal or Warren County?

The top 7 reasons VA homeowners need Wahl Appraisal Service:

  1. Get a pre-listing appraisal (whether you're using a real estate agent or selling the home on your own)
  2. To challenge a VA property tax assessment
  3. To lower your mortgage payments by removing PMI
  4. To reinstate your Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
  5. Review another appraiser's report for verification
  6. In the case of a VA divorce, when property needs to be divided
  7. Determine the true market value of real estate in question to settle an estate in VA

Do you own a home in or near Front Royal? Do you need help determining the price of your real estate?
Contact Wahl Appraisal Service.

At Wahl Appraisal Service, we understand the unique needs of a homeowner in need of appraisal services. Our business practices and reporting formats are relatively routine to our business clients like lenders, lawyers, and CPAs. Being a regular person not in the real estate business that most likely doesn't see an appraisal every day,we will provide you with extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to understand what we do and how we report the results of our analysis.

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

It's very hard to be objective about your house because you most likely have an emotional attachment to it. Our professional appraisers at Wahl Appraisal Service are objective. We won't just tell you what you want to hear, we will tell you what you need to know. In addition to helping you set a realistic selling price so your property will attract buyers, a professional appraisal is a crucial negotiating tool once you have an interested buyer. It's something concrete to show the buyer. An appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your home's price -- not just you saying how much you think your house is worth. Potential buyers assume you have an emotional attachment to your home and will be more likely to give credibility to a qualified appraiser's value estimation than yours.

Need to remove PMI?

A fashionable way to cut costs for homeowners is to get the PMI canceled from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. PMI stands for "Private Mortgage Insurance". Your monthly payments will go down once your mortgage loan amount is less than 80% of the value of your property. In most cases you can apply to your lender to have the PMI eliminated from your loan. At Wahl Appraisal Service, we're experienced in helping folks just like you delete unnecessary PMI insurance.

Challenge a property tax assessment

Your local tax assessor may have your home overvalued if your house is not appreciating as much as other homes close by. This means you are paying higher taxes than you should be paying. Since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period, the sooner you take care of things like this, the better. When contesting your property tax assessment, getting a professional appraisal from Wahl Appraisal Service is your best weapon.

HELOC recently frozen?

Your lender may just choose to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your home is in a declining area -- even if your specific property has not declined in value. This can be be damaging to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out, and also difficult and inconvenient from a cash flow point of view. An appraisal from Wahl Appraisal Service can help you reinstate your HELOC.

Need Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services?

Have you just been given a copy of your appraisal and you would like to have a seasoned professional double-check it for precision or do you need a second opinion without the cost and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? In a field review we will go out and check the subject and comps in question. If you're in a rush, we'll provide you with a 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? We can help you with that While typically requested by banks, you may wish to use this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your house.