Selling your home in or near Effingham County? Contact Kelly Butts and make sure you're setting the price right.

Selling your home? You would be wise to invest in a professional appraisal. An appraisal doesn't cost that much and it pays in the long run! Unless a homeowner studies real estate values on a day to day basis, like an appraiser, it's hard for them to get a handle on local real estate values.

While important, an appraisal is not about the costs of purchasing and upgrading your home, or how much you want for it. Rather, an appraisal assesses your home's market value.

Contact us for information regarding our specialized services for home sellers.

Going to sell your home yourself?

An increasing amount of IL homeowners are making the decision to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the assistance of a real estate agent. But to do it right, with minimal waiting and for the best price, what you need is a professional appraisal. You need objective opinions, it's very difficult to take an objective look at 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.

In addition to helping you set a realistic selling price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Be a very helpful negotiating tool when you find a potential buyer
  • Put buyers at ease with written proof of the interior and exterior condition of your home
  • Alert you of issues and eliminate overlooked repairs hassles that might hold-up a closing
  • Help decrease the chances of hidden problems that cause sales to fall through

People are surprised when they find out that the value of their home is higher than they originally thought. So spending a little on a professional appraisal allowed them to receive several thousand more than they expected they would get. Alternatively, some people have an inflated opinion of their home's value, and an appraisal helped them to to set a more reasonable price their home allowing them to quickly sell it rather than gathering dust on the market for months. Selling too high rarely attracts buyers, which means no offers and no closing, which can waste your valuable time and drain your resources while getting nothing done

Pre-listing appraisals in Effingham County

Even if you're working with a very skilled agent, it's in your best interest to have an objective third-party's opinion of your home's value to signing a listing agreement. Let Kelly Butts help. We can provide you with a pre-listing appraisal that will let you and your agent have a definitive description of your home's characteristics and a detailed breakdown of the newest and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

Serving IL with the finest real estate consulting services

Not wanting to get an entire appraisal but are looking for information about how the real estate market is doing in your area? You might feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you'd still like assistance gathering local sales and property data. We have services tailored especially for consumers like you to help with your real estate decisions.

Here's what you can expect when you place an order for an appraisal through us....

  • Prompt response to your initial inquiry: We tailor information to the needs of our clients We'll be more then happy to provide suggestions, just let us know what your situation is
  • Fast turnaround time: Normally one week or less from the date we receive the request, we can have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Appraisal and consulting report formats to suit YOUR needs: We've done a large amount of assignments, and we've learned that when it comes 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 know how at providing appraisals to consumers that keep the industry jargon to a minimum so that you don't have to be qualified loan officer to read it.
  • Any follow up questions? You can expect a quick follow-up from Kelly Butts: When we create reports, we make sure they are written in plain English, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that governs the appraisal practice. If you have any questions regarding your appraisal, after you've read through the report, we encourage you to email or call us!