Need an appraisal in Bakersfield or Kern County?

Check out the top reasons CA homeowners call on Acclaimed Appraisers:

  1. Pre-listing appraisals (whether they're selling the home on their own or using an agent)
  2. Challenge Kern county's assessment of your property
  3. To lower their monthly mortgage payment by removing PMI
  4. Reinstate their Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
  5. Verify another appraiser's report
  6. In the case of a CA divorce, where real estate property needs to be divided
  7. To settle an estate in Kern county or CA by determining the true market value of property in question

Own a house in or near Bakersfield, CA and need help deciding the price of it?
Contact Acclaimed Appraisers.

We at Acclaimed Appraisers understand the particular needs of a customer looking for appraisal services. While our typical clients understand the appraisal process and standard reporting formats, you as a consumer will get extra service in the form of an explanation of the process and even special consumer-friendly reporting forms if the assignment allows for them.

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

Since you have an emotional attachment to your home, it's often very hard to be objective about it. Professional appraisers, like the ones at Acclaimed Appraisers, are 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 price to sell at so your home will attract interested buyers, a professional appraisal is very important as a negotiating tool once you have a potential buyer. The appraisal is something concrete to show the buyer. An appraisal is an independent third party's opinion of your property's value -- not just how much your house is worth. Interested buyers assume that you have an emotional attachment to your house and will be far more likely to give credibility to an accomplished appraiser's value report than yours.

Need to remove PMI?

A fashionable way to cut costs for homeowners is getting the PMI eliminated from their mortgage loan, thus saving them money on their monthly payments. PMI stands for "Private Mortgage Insurance". Your monthly payments will go down once your mortgage loan is less than 80% of the value of your home. In most cases you can apply to the lender to have the PMI eliminated from your loan. We're qualified in helping customers just like you get rid of unneeded and unwanted PMI insurance.

Challenge a property tax assessment

Lets say you live in a local area that is going down -- your local tax assessor may have your home overvalued. That only means you are paying more taxes than you should. The sooner you take care of things like this, the better off you'll be, since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period. When contesting your property tax assessment, getting an appraisal report from Acclaimed Appraisers is your best weapon.

Was your HELOC recently frozen?

If your house is in or near a declining area, your lender may just 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 disadvantageous from a cash flow standpoint. Acclaimed Appraisers can help you reinstate your home equity line of credit with efficient appraisal.

Do You Need Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services?

Have you just been handed a copy of your appraisal and you'd wish to have a seasoned expert double-check it for precision or do you want a second opinion without the cost and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Acclaimed Appraisers offers field reviews where we'll go out and check the subject and comparables. 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.

Do you need a retrospective review of an appraisal report? Acclaimed Appraisers can help you with that. While typically requested by banks, you may wish to make use of this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your house.