Appraisal services for Greenbrae and Marin County homeowners

The top seven reasons California homeowners use Corina Rollins:

1. Get a pre-listing appraisal (whether you're using an agent or selling the home on your own)
2. Challenge a property tax assessment
3. To reduce your monthly mortgage payment by removing PMI
4. To reinstate your Home Equity Line of Credit (or HELOC)
5. Verify another appraiser's report
6. If real estate property needs to be divided because of a divorce
7. Settle an estate in California by determining the true market value of a property

	Do you own a house in or near Greenbrae? Do you need help deciding the value of your real estate? Contact Corina Rollins.

We at Corina Rollins understand the particular needs of a homeowner seeking appraisal services. Our typical business clients are used to the appraisal process and the usual documents we provide. But as a consumer, you'll receive extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to better understand what we do and how we present the results of our analysis.

Pre-listing Services/For Sale by Owner

Since you have an emotional attachment to your own home, 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. A professional appraisal is very important as a negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer, in addition to helping you set a realistic selling price so your property will attract many interested buyers. The appraisal is something tangible to show your buyer. The appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your house's market value, not just how much your home is worth. Interested buyers assume you have an emotional attachment to your house and will be more likely to give credibility to an accomplished appraiser's value assessment than yours.

Challenge a property tax assessment

If you live in a local area that is going down or not appreciating as much as other homes close to yours, your local tax assessor may have your home overvalued. That means you are going to pay more taxes than you should. Since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period, the quicker you take care of things like this, the better off you'll be. When challenging your property tax assessment, getting an appraisal report from Corina Rollins is your #1 weapon.

PMI Removal Appraisals

Getting the PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance) eliminated from your mortgage loan is an attractive way to save money for homeowners. Your monthly payments will go down once your mortgage loan is less than 80% of the value of your property. In most cases you can apply to a lender to have the PMI canceled from your loan. We are experts in helping customers just like you delete unneeded and unwanted PMI insurance.

Was your HELOC recently frozen?

Your lender just might make the decision to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your house is near a declining area -- even if your specific property has not declined in value. This can be bad for your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out, and also unsuitable from a cash flow point of view. Corina Rollins can help you reinstate your home equity line of credit with efficient appraisal.

We Provide 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 professional to double-check your appraisal for efficiency? In a field review we'll go out and check the subject and comparables. 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.

Do you need a retrospective review of an appraisal report? Corina Rollins can help you with that. Although most review work is requested by lenders for quality control, homeowners that have reason to believe a prior appraisal wasn't above board are prudent to invest in a second opinion.