Need an appraisal in Sequim or Clallam County?

Here are the top 7 reasons Washington homeowners need Langston Professional Services:

  1. Get a pre-listing appraisal (whether you're using a real estate agent or selling the home on your own)
  2. To challenge a property tax assessment in Washington
  3. Remove PMI to cut their mortgage payments
  4. To reinstate their Home Equity Line of Credit (or HELOC)
  5. To review another appraiser's report for verification
  6. If real estate property needs to be divided because of a divorce
  7. To settle an estate in Clallam county or Washington by determining the true market value of the real estate in question
Need help deciding the price of your home in or near Sequim, Washington? Contact Langston Professional Services.

At Langston Professional Services, we understand the individual needs of a consumer looking for appraisal services. While our typical clients understand the appraisal process and standard reporting formats, you as a consumer will get extra service in the form of an explanation of the process and even special consumer-friendly reporting forms if the assignment allows for them.

For Sale by Owner/Pre-Listing Services

It's very hard to be objective about your home because of your emotional attachment to it. A professional appraiser is objective and will tell you what you need to know, not just what you want to hear. A professional appraisal is a very valuable negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer, in addition to helping you set a realistic price to sell at so your home will attract interested buyers. It's something concrete to show the buyer. The appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your house's value, not just you saying how much you think your house is worth. Potential buyers assume that you have an emotional attachment to your home and will be much more likely to give credibility to a seasoned appraiser's value report than yours.

Challenge Tax Assessment

Your local tax assessor may have your house overvalued if you live in a local area that is declining. This only means you're most likely paying higher taxes than you should be paying. Since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period, the quicker you take care of things like this, the better. When contesting your property tax assessment, getting an appraisal from Langston Professional Services is your strongest weapon.

Appraisals to cancel PMI

PMI stands for Private Mortgage Insurance. A popular way to cut expenses for homeowners is getting the PMI canceled from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. Your monthly payments will go down once your mortgage loan is below 80% of the value of your house. In most cases you can apply to your lender to have the PMI canceled from your loan. Langston Professional Services is seasoned in helping clients just like you delete unneeded and unwanted PMI insurance.

HELOC recently frozen?

Even if your specific property has not declined in value, your lender just may make the decision to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your house is close to a declining area. Not only can this be inconvenient from a cash flow standpoint, but it can be destructive to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out. A professional appraisal from Langston Professional Services can help you reinstate your HELOC.

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 veteran appraiser to double-check your appraisal for accuracy? Langston Professional Services offers field reviews where we go out and check the subject and comparables in question. If you need it immediately, we'll provide you with a desk review and verify as many facts as we can, using online data sources as well as our own files.

Do you need a retrospective review of an appraisal? Langston Professional Services can help you with that. Even though most review work is requested by lenders for quality control, homeowners suspecting they've been the victim of mortgage fraud are prudent to invest in a second opinion.