Listing at the right price is crucial and a professional appraisal from Skylight Evaluations will ensure you get it right.

If you're planning on selling your home soon, a professional appraisal is absolutely necessary. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it's worth every penny in the long run! Unless a homeowner spends hours every week on real estate valuation, like a professional appraiser does, it's practically impossible for them to understand the nuances of their local real estate market.

You, as a homeowner, might be thinking about the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or the amount you'd like to get for it. You see, an appraisal provides a professional opinion on how much your home will bring on the open market. Once you break it all down, at the end of the day, your house is only going to sell for the price another person is going to pay.

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

Need help setting a price when selling yourself?

Quite a few Georgia homeowners are deciding to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the assistance of a real estate agent. But if you're going to do it right, with minimal waiting and to get the most you can, you need a qualified appraiser. The best thing to have is an objective opinion, we're human too, we understand its difficult difficult to take an objective look at your own home because of your emotional attachment to it. We will inform you of what you need to know, not just what you want to hear.

In addition to helping you set a realistic asking price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:
  • Be a very useful bargaining tool when you find a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of the condition of your home inside and out
  • Make you aware of issues and eliminate last-minute repair hassles that might hold-up a closing
  • Lower the possibility of hidden problems that cause sales to flop
People are surprised when they find out that the value of their home is more than they originally believed. So taking the first step and investing in an appraisal provided the data to support a sale for several thousand more than they could have originally gotten. Others have an an inflated impression of their home's value, and by getting an appraisal it helped them to to set a more reasonable price for their home - allowing them to quickly sell it - rather than sitting on the market for months. Asking too much for a home will not attract buyers, which means no offers and no closing, wasting your valuable time and draining your resources while your house waits for a buyer.

Get a comprehensive appraisal before listing

You may have a highly skilled agent, but it's definitely a good idea to have an objective third-party's opinion of your home's value before signing a listing agreement. Skylight Evaluations can help. An appraisal can be indispensable in this scenario. It will give both you and your agent a detailed breakdown of the unique features of your property which will give you insight into the health of the local real estate market with a record of the latest comparable properties in the area.

Serving Lithonia with the greatest real estate consulting services

If you feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you require some help analyzing local sales and property data, we offer services tailored for the needs of consumers like you to assist with your real estate decisions.

When you order an appraisal report through Skylight Evaluations, expect the following....

  • Fast response to your initial inquiry: We tailor information to the needs of our clients. We'll be thrilled to provide suggestions - just tell us what your situation is.
  • Swift turnaround time: Typically in a week's time or less from the date we receive the request, you'll have a PDF of the report ready to download.
  • Consulting and appraisal report presentations to suit YOUR needs: We've preformed many of assignments, and we've learned that when it's real estate consulting and appraising, there is no typical or standard "boiler place" report. We offer many different types of reports and have know how at providing appraisals to clients that keep the industry jargon to a minimum so that you don't have to be real estate attorney to understand it.
  • Any follow up questions? You can expect a quick response from Skylight Evaluations: Documents we deliver are clearly written, understandable, and adhere to the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. Should you have any inquiries regarding your appraisal after you've read the report, just give us a call or email us!