Real estate appraisal services for homeowners in the city of Dumfries and Prince William County

The top 7 reasons VA homeowners hire Rhema Appraisers, LLC:

  1. Get a pre-listing appraisal (whether they're selling the home themselves or using a real estate agent)
  2. Challenge Prince William county's assessment of your propertyworth
  3. Remove PMI to cut a mortgage payment
  4. To reinstate your Home Equity Line of Credit (or HELOC)
  5. Review another appraiser's report for verification
  6. In the case of a VA divorce, where real estate property needs to be divided
  7. To settle an estate in Prince William county or VA by determining the true market value of property in question

Do you own a home in or near Dumfries? Do you need help deciding the value of your real estate?
Contact Rhema Appraisers, LLC.

At Rhema Appraisers, LLC, we understand the individual needs of a homeowner looking for appraisal services. While our usual business clients understand the appraisal process and standard reporting formats, you as a consumer will get an extra level of customer service in the form of an explanation of the process and even special consumer-friendly reporting forms if the assignment allows for them.

Pre-listing Services/For Sale By Owner

Since you have an emotional attachment to your house, 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. In addition to helping you set a realistic price to sell at so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal is a very important negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer. The appraisal is something tangible to show your buyer. It's an independent third party's opinion of your house's price, and not just you saying how much your house is worth. Potential buyers assume that you have an emotional attachment to your house and will be far more likely to give credibility to an expert appraiser's value opinion than yours.

Appraisals to cancel PMI

A popular way to cut expenses for homeowners is to get the PMI eliminated from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. PMI stands for "Private Mortgage Insurance". Once your mortgage loan amount is less than 80% of the value of your house, in most cases you can apply to a lender to have the PMI canceled from your loan, which will make your monthly payments go down. We are seasoned in helping homeowners just like you get rid of unwanted PMI insurance.

Challenging Prince William county's assessment of your property

Your local tax assessor may have your house overvalued if you live in a region that is going down. That means you're going to pay more taxes than you should. Since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period, the sooner you take care of a matter like this, the better off you'll be. An appraisal from Rhema Appraisers, LLC is your number one weapon when contesting your property tax assessment.

HELOC recently frozen?

Even if your specific property has not declined in value, your lender might just choose to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your home is near a declining area. This can be be destructive to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out, and also difficult and inconvenient from a cash flow point of view. Rhema Appraisers, LLC can provide you with efficient appraisal to help you reinstate your HELOC.

Need Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services?

Would you like a second opinion without the cost and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Or do you need a seasoned professional to double-check your appraisal for efficiency? In a field review we'll go out and check the subject and comps in question. If you need it ASAP, we'll provide desk review and verify as many facts as we can using online data sources as well as our own files.

We can also provide you with a a retrospective review of any appraisal you may have had done before. While typically requested by banks, you may need to take advantage of this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your house.