Attention homeowners in Bremerton and Kitsap County: Get an Appraisal today!

Check out the top seven reasons WA homeowners use Sound Appraisal Group, Inc:

  1. Get a pre-listing appraisal (whether you're using a real estate agent or selling the home on your own)
  2. Challenge property tax assessments
  3. To lower your mortgage payments by removing PMI
  4. Reinstate their Home Equity Line of Credit (or HELOC)
  5. Verify a different appraiser's report
  6. If real estate property needs to be divided because of a divorce
  7. Determine the true market value of property in question to settle an estate

Need help determining the price of your house in or near Bremerton, WA?
Contact Sound Appraisal Group, Inc.

We at Sound Appraisal Group, Inc understand the individual needs of a customer seeking appraisal services. Our business practices and reporting formats are relatively routine to our business clients like lenders, attorneys, and CPAs. As our valued client, you can expect extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to understand what we do and how we report the results of our analysis.

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. A professional appraiser is objective and will tell you what you need to know, not just what you want to hear. A professional appraisal is a crucial negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer, in addition to helping you set a realistic selling price so your home will attract many interested buyers. The appraisal is something tangible to show your buyer. The appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your house's value, not just how much your home is worth. Interested buyers assume you have an emotional attachment to your home and will be more likely to give credibility to an experienced appraiser's value report than yours.

Appraisals to cancel PMI

Getting the PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance) removed from your mortgage loan is a preferred way to cut costs for homeowners. Once your mortgage loan is less than 80% of the value of your house, in most cases you can apply to the lender to have the PMI eliminated from your loan, which will make your monthly payments go down. Sound Appraisal Group, Inc is seasoned in helping customers just like you rid yourselves of undesirable PMI insurance.

Challenge Tax Assessment

Your local tax assessor may have your home overvalued if your home not appreciating as much as other properties close to yours. That only means you're probably paying more taxes than you should. Since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period, the sooner you take care of things like this, the better off you'll be. An expert appraisal from Sound Appraisal Group, Inc is your chief weapon when challenging your property tax assessment.

Was your HELOC recently frozen?

Your lender just might make the decision to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your property is near a declining area -- even if your specific property has not declined in value. This can this be troublesome from a cash flow point of view, and detrimental to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out. Sound Appraisal Group, Inc can help you reinstate your HELOC.

We Also Provide Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services

Do you need a seasoned expert to double-check your appraisal for precision, or do you need a second opinion without the charge and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Sound Appraisal Group, Inc offers field reviews where we go out and check the subject and comparables. 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.

Need a retrospective review of an appraisal? We can help you with that While usually requested by banks, you may desire to exercise this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your house.