Need an appraisal in Jonesboro or Craighead County?

The top 7 reasons Arkansas homeowners order from Staton and Associates, LLC:

  1. Pre-listing appraisals (whether you're using an agent or selling the home on your own)
  2. To challenge your property tax assessment in Arkansas
  3. To reduce a mortgage payment by removing PMI
  4. Reinstate your Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
  5. To review a different appraiser's report for verification
  6. If real estate property needs to be divided because of a divorce
  7. Determine the true market value of the property in question to settle an estate
Need help deciding the value of your house in or near Jonesboro, Arkansas? Contact Staton and Associates, LLC.

At Staton and Associates, LLC, we understand the special needs of a customer after appraisal services. Our business practices and reporting formats are relatively routine to our business clients like lenders, lawyers, and accountants. Being a person not in the real estate business that ordinarily doesn't look at appraisals on a regular basis, we will provide you with extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to better understand what we do and how we report the results of our analysis.

Pre-listing Services/For Sale by Owner (FSBO)

Since you have an emotional attachment to your own house, it's often very hard to be objective about it. Our professional appraisers at Staton and Associates, LLC are objective. We won't just tell you what you want to hear, we'll tell you what you need to know. In addition to helping you set a realistic selling price so your home will attract buyers, a professional appraisal is very important as a negotiating tool once you have an interested buyer. It's something concrete to show your buyer. An appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your house's value -- not just how much your home is worth. Potential buyers assume you have an emotional attachment to your house and will be far more likely to give credibility to an expert appraiser's value judgement than yours.

Challenge property tax assessments

Your local tax assessor may have your house overvalued if you live in a region that's going down or not appreciating as much as other homes nearby. This only means you're probably 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 a matter like this, the better off you'll be. When challenging your property tax assessment, getting an appraisal report from Staton and Associates, LLC is your #1 weapon.

Appraisals to cancel PMI

PMI stands for Private Mortgage Insurance. A popular way to cut expenses for homeowners is to get the PMI removed from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. Your monthly payments will go down once your mortgage loan amount is less than 80% of the value of your house. In most cases you can apply to the lender to have the PMI removed from your loan. We're experienced in helping customers just like you rid themselves of unneeded PMI insurance.

HELOC recently frozen?

Your lender may just choose to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your home is in or near a declining area -- even if your specific property has not declined in value. Not only can this be inopportune from a cash flow standpoint, but it can be unfavorable to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out. Staton and Associates, LLC can help you reinstate your home equity line of credit with efficient appraisal.

Do You Need Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services?

Do you need a veteran appraiser to double-check your appraisal for preciseness, or do you want a second opinion without the added cost and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? We can go out and check the subject and comparables in question in a field review. Or, if you're in a rush, we can provide you with a 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 retrospective review of any appraisal you may have had done before. While typically requested by banks, you may want to exercise this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your home.