Need an appraisal in Greenville or Greenville County?

Here are the top seven reasons why SC homeowners call on Five Star Appraisals:

Pre-listing appraisals (whether you're using a real estate agent or selling the home on your own)
Challenge a property tax assessment
Remove PMI to cut their monthly mortgage payment
Reinstate your Home Equity Line of Credit (or HELOC)
Verify a different appraiser's report
In the case of a SC divorce, where real estate needs to be divided
Settle an estate in SC by determining the true market value of real estate in question

Need help deciding the value of your home in or near Greenville, SC?
Contact Five Star Appraisals.

At Five Star Appraisals, we understand the particular needs of a customer in need of appraisal services. Our regular business clients get the appraisal process and the customary reporting formats. Being a homeowner that most likely doesn't look at appraisals on a regular basis,we will give you extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to understand what we do and how we document our conclusions.

Pre-listing Services/For Sale By Owner

Since you have an emotional attachment to your home, it's often very hard to be objective about it. The professional appraisers at Five Star Appraisals will tell you what you need to know -- not just what you want to hear. We are objective. A professional appraisal is very crucial as a negotiating tool once you have an attainable buyer, in addition to helping you set a realistic selling price so your property will attract interested buyers. It's something concrete to show the buyer. It's an independent third party's opinion of your property's value, and not just you saying how much you think your home is worth. Potential buyers know that you have an emotional attachment to your house and will be far more likely to give credibility to an experienced appraiser's value assessment than yours.

Need to remove PMI?

PMI stands for Private Mortgage Insurance. A fashionable way to cut expenses for homeowners is getting the PMI eliminated from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. Your monthly payments will go down once your mortgage loan is down below 80% of the value of your house. In most cases you can apply to a lender to have the PMI removed from your loan. We are experts in helping homeowners just like you remove unneeded and unwanted PMI insurance.

Challenge Tax Assessment

If you live in an area that is going down or not appreciating as much as other houses nearby, your local tax assessor may have your house overvalued. This means you're probably paying higher taxes than you should be paying. The earlier you take care of a matter like this, the better, since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period. When contesting your property tax assessment, getting an appraisal report from Five Star Appraisals is your best weapon.

Recently got a freeze your HELOC?

Even if your specific property has not declined in value, your lender may make the decision to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your house is near a declining area. This can this be inopportune from a cash flow point of view, and damaging to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out. An expert appraisal from Five Star Appraisals can help you reinstate your HELOC.

We Provide Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services

Would you like a second opinion without the charge and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Or do you want a seasoned expert to double-check your appraisal for precision? An appraiser from Five Star Appraisals can go out and check the subject and comps in a field review. Or, if you need it immediately, 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 report? We can help with that too. While usually requested by banks, you may need to exercise this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your house.