Appraisal services for Pompano Beach and Broward County homeowners

The top seven reasons FL homeowners use Kamphaus Appraisal Services:

  1. Pre-listing appraisals (whether they're selling the home on their own or using an agent)
  2. To challenge a FL property tax assessment
  3. Remove PMI to lower a mortgage payments
  4. To reinstate their Home Equity Line of Credit (or HELOC)
  5. Verify another appraiser's report
  6. If real estate needs to be divided because of a divorce
  7. Settle an estate in FL by determining the true market value of property in question

Do you own a house in or near Pompano Beach? Do you need help deciding the value of your real estate?
Contact Kamphaus Appraisal Services.

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

Pre-listing Services/For Sale By Owner

It's very hard to be objective about your house 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 very important as a negotiating tool once you have an interested buyer, in addition to helping you set a realistic selling price so your home will attract many interested buyers. It's something tangible to show the buyer. An appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your home's price -- not just you saying how much your house is worth. Interested buyers assume you have an emotional attachment to your home and will be more likely to give credibility to an accomplished appraiser's value assessment than yours.

Need to remove PMI?

A fashionable way to save money for homeowners is to get the PMI canceled from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. PMI stands for "Private Mortgage Insurance". Once your mortgage loan amount is below 80% of the value of your house, in most cases you can apply to the lender to have the PMI eliminated from your loan, which will make your monthly payments go down. At Kamphaus Appraisal Services, we're veterans in helping customers just like you delete undesirable PMI insurance.

Challenge Tax Assessment

Your local tax assessor may have your home overvalued if you live in an area that's going down. That means you're most likely paying more taxes than you should. Since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period, the earlier you take care of a matter like this, the better. An appraisal report from Kamphaus Appraisal Services is your chief weapon when contesting your property tax assessment.

Recently got a freeze your HELOC?

Your lender may decide to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) if your property is near a declining area -- even if your specific property has not declined in value. This can be be unfavorable to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out, and also annoying from a cash flow point of view. Kamphaus Appraisal Services can help you reinstate your HELOC.

Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services

Would you like a second opinion without the charge and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Or do you need an expert to double-check your appraisal for verity? Kamphaus Appraisal Services offers field reviews where we'll go out and check the subject and comparables in question. If you need it immediately, we'll provide 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. While usually requested by banks, you may wish to make use of this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your home.