Be an informed seller. Get an appraisal from Bruck & Associates, ltd.

If you're planning on selling your home soon, an appraisal is absolutely necessary. Don't think of a professional appraisal as costing money; it pays in the long run! Unless the homeowner spends hours every week on real estate valuation, like a professional appraiser does, it's difficult for them to get a handle on their local real estate market.

While important, an appraisal is not about how much you have invested in your home, or the amount you'd like to get for it. Rather, the appraisal measures your home's market value.

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

Selling yourself instead of using a real estate agent and need help with pricing?

More and more OH homeowners are choosing to sell their homes FSBO (For Sale By Owner) and foregoing the help of a real estate agent. But to do it right, quickly and for the best price, what you need is a qualified appraiser. You need objective opinions, we're human too, we understand its difficult hard to be objective about 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.

Not only can getting a professional appraisal help you set a astute selling price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal can:

  • Be a very useful bargaining tool once you have a potential buyer
  • Impress buyers with written proof of your home's condition inside and out
  • Alert you of issues and get rid of any overlooked repairs hassles that might stall a closing
  • Help decrease the chances of unidentified problems that cause sales to fall through

It can be surprising to people when they find out their home's value is much more than they thought. So by taking the first step and investing in an appraisal allowed them to get several thousand more than they expected they would get. Alternatively, some people have an exaggerated assessment when they put a value on their home, by getting an appraisal it helped them to to realistically price their home allowing them to quickly sell it rather than waiting on the market for months. Selling too high rarely attracts buyers, reducing your offers, making closing more difficult, which can waste your valuable time and drain your resources while getting nothing done

Pre-listing appraisals in Franklin County

You may have a very talented agent but it's definitely a good idea to have an unbiased second opinion of value prior to finalizing a listing agreement. Let Bruck & Associates, ltd 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 analysis of the most recent and similar comparable sales or as they're commonly called, "comps".

Sometimes it's useful to have a general resource for local real estate knowledge

Have you decided against an entire appraisal but still need some information about the real estate market in your area? You might feel like you don't need an "appraisal" but you need some help analyzing local sales and property data. We can be a resource for your real estate quandaries with services especially tailored for consumers with your real estate needs.

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

  • We pride ourselves on making sure that when you send your initial inquiry, you get a response ASAP: We will provide you with personalized information for your individual appraisal need. Just explain your situation and offer you suggestions.
  • Quick turnaround time: Typically in a weeks time or less from the date the request is received, we can have a copy, in PDF of the report in your e-mail inbox.
  • Appraisal and consulting report arrangements that suit YOUR needs: We've worked on lots of assignments, and we've learned that in the art of real estateappraising there is no typical or standard, "boiler place" assignment. We offer a variety of report types, and have know how at providing appraisals to consumers that keep the industry jargon to a minimum in an easy to read format without a lot of industry jargon.
  • Fast to follow-up questions: Reports we write are clearly written, comprehensible to people outside the real estate industry, and meet or exceed the Uniform Standards of Professional Practice that regulates the appraisal practice. If you have any confusion about your appraisal, after you've read through the report, just give us a call or email us!