Real estate appraisal services for homeowners in the city of Abbeville and Abbeville County

Check out the top 7 reasons SC homeowners order from Lakelands Appraisal Group, LLC:

Pre-listing appraisals (whether you're using a real estate agent or selling the home on your own)
Challenge property tax assessments
Remove PMI to cut your mortgage payment
To reinstate their Home Equity Line of Credit (or HELOC)
To review a different appraiser's report for verification
If real estate property needs to be divided because of a divorce
To settle an estate in SC by determining the true market value of property in question

Do you own a home in or near Abbeville? Do you need help determining the price of your real estate?
Contact Lakelands Appraisal Group, LLC.

At Lakelands Appraisal Group, LLC, we understand the unique needs of a homeowner in need of appraisal services. The appraisal process and reporting formats are familiar to our business clients like lenders, attorneys, and accountants. But as a general consumer,you'll receive extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to better understand what we do and how we document our findings.

Pre-listing Services/For Sale By Owner

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 Lakelands Appraisal Group, LLC, will be 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 home will attract many interested buyers, a professional appraisal is a very important negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer. It's something concrete to show the buyer. The appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your home's price, not just how much you think your home is worth. Interested buyers assume that you have an emotional attachment to your house and will be far more likely to give credibility to an expert appraiser's value opinion than yours.

Appraisals to remove PMI

Getting the PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance) removed from your mortgage loan is an attractive way to cut expenses for homeowners. Your monthly payments will go down once your mortgage loan is below 80% of the value of your home. In most cases you can apply to your lender to have the PMI eliminated from your loan. We're seasoned in helping clients just like you delete unwanted PMI insurance.

Challenging property tax assessments

If you live in a region that is declining or not appreciating as much as other homes nearby, your local tax assessor may have your home overvalued. This only means you are probably paying higher taxes than you should be paying. The earlier you take care of things like this, the better, since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period. Getting an appraisal report from Lakelands Appraisal Group, LLC is your perfect weapon when contesting your property tax assessment.

HELOC recently frozen?

Even if your specific property has not declined in value, your lender might decide to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your property is in or near a declining area. Not only can this be unsuitable from a cash flow viewpoint, but it can be bad for your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out. Lakelands Appraisal Group, LLC can help you reinstate your HELOC.

Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services

Would you wish a second opinion without the added cost and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Or do you need a professional to double-check your appraisal for efficiency? Lakelands Appraisal Group, LLC offers field reviews where we go out and check the subject and comps. Or, if you need it in a rush, we can 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 report? Lakelands Appraisal Group, LLC can help with that too. Even though this is usually requested by banks, you may need to exploit this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your property.