Real estate appraisal services for homeowners in the city of Lynchburg and Bedford County

The top seven reasons why VA homeowners use Accelerated Appraisal Services:

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

Need help determining the value of your house in or near Lynchburg, VA?
Contact Accelerated Appraisal Services.

We at Accelerated Appraisal Services understand the particular needs of a customer in need of appraisal services. Our business practices and reporting formats are relatively routine to our business clients like lenders, attorneys, and CPAs. As our valued client, you can expect extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to more fully understand what we do and how we present the results of our analysis.

For Sale By Owner (FSBO)/Pre-Listing Services

Since you have an emotional attachment to your house, it's often very hard to be objective about it. The professional appraisers at Accelerated Appraisal Services will tell you what you need to know -- not just what you want to hear. We are objective. In addition to helping you set a realistic selling price so your home will attract many interested buyers, a professional appraisal is a very important negotiating tool once you have an interested buyer. It gives you something concrete to show the buyer. It's an independent third party's opinion of your home's value, and not just how much your home is worth. Potential buyers know that you have an emotional attachment to your home and will be much more likely to give credibility to a professional appraiser's value estimation than yours.

Appraisals to remove PMI

Getting the PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance) eliminated from your mortgage loan is a popular way to cut costs for homeowners. 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 your lender to have the PMI canceled from your loan. At Accelerated Appraisal Services, we're qualified in helping clients just like you rid yourselves of unwanted PMI insurance.

Challenging a property tax assessment

Lets say you live in a local area that is going down -- your local tax assessor may have your house overvalued. This only means you are most likely paying higher taxes than you should be paying. Since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period, the faster you take care of things like this, the better. An expert appraisal from Accelerated Appraisal Services is your best weapon when contesting your property tax assessment.

Was your HELOC recently frozen?

If your house is close to a declining area, your lender may decide to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) - even if your specific property has not declined in value. This can be 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 viewpoint. A professional appraisal from Accelerated Appraisal Services can help you reinstate your HELOC.

Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services

Do you need an expert to double-check your appraisal for precision, or do you desire a second opinion without the expense and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? In a field review we'll go out and check the subject and comps. If you need it ASAP, 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? Accelerated Appraisal Services can help with that too. Even though this is usually requested by banks, you may want to use this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your house.