Real estate appraisal services for homeowners in the city of Overland Park and Johnson County

The top 7 reasons why KS homeowners use Faubion Appraisals:

Find the right listing price (whether you're using an agent or selling the home on your own)
Challenge property tax assessments
To cut your mortgage payments by removing PMI
To reinstate their Home Equity Line of Credit (or HELOC)
Verify a different appraiser's report
In the case of a KS divorce, where real estate needs to be divided
Settle an estate in KS by determining the true market value of property in question

Own a home in or near Overland Park, KS and need help determining the price of it?
Contact Faubion Appraisals.

At Faubion Appraisals, we understand the particular needs of a customer in need of appraisal services. The appraisal process and reporting formats are relatively routine to our business clients like banks, attorneys, and CPAs. But as a general consumer,we will give you extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to better understand what we do and how we present our conclusions.

Pre-listing Services/For Sale By Owner

It's very hard to be objective about your house because of your emotional attachment to it. Professional appraisers, like the ones at Faubion Appraisals, will be objective. We'll tell you what you need to know, not just what you want to hear. In addition to helping you set a realistic selling price so your home will attract interested buyers, a professional appraisal is a crucial negotiating tool once you have an interested buyer. The appraisal is something tangible to show the buyer. The appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your property's price, not just how much your house is worth. Potential buyers know that you have an emotional attachment to your home and will be far more likely to give credibility to an expert appraiser's value assessment than yours.

Appraisals to cancel PMI

PMI stands for Private Mortgage Insurance. A fashionable way to cut expenses for homeowners is getting the PMI eliminated from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. Once your mortgage loan amount is below 80% of the value of your property, in most cases you can apply to your lender to have the PMI eliminated from your loan, which will make your monthly payments go down. We are qualified in helping consumers just like you rid themselves of unnecessary PMI insurance.

Challenging a property tax assessment

Lets say you live in a local area that's going down -- your local tax assessor may have your home overvalued. That means you're paying more taxes than you should. The sooner you take care of things like this, the better, since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period. When challenging your property tax assessment, getting an appraisal from Faubion Appraisals is your strongest weapon.

HELOC recently frozen?

Even if your specific property has not declined in value, your lender may just choose to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your property is close to a declining area. This can this be inopportune from a cash flow viewpoint, and negative on your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out. An expert appraisal from Faubion Appraisals can help you reinstate your HELOC.

We Also Provide Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services

Do you need a professional to double-check your appraisal for precision, or do you desire 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 need it 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.

Need a retrospective review of an appraisal report? We can help with that too. Even though this is usually requested by banks, you may want to take advantage of this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your home.