Attention homeowners in Austin and Williamson County: Get an Appraisal today!

See the top seven reasons why TX homeowners call on Hill Country Valuations LLC:

Pre-listing appraisals (whether you're using a real estate agent or selling the home on your own)
Challenge a property tax assessment
Remove PMI to reduce your monthly mortgage payment
To reinstate their Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC)
To review another appraiser's report for verification
In the case of a TX divorce, where property needs to be divided
To determine the true market value of real estate in question to settle an estate in TX

Do you own a home in or near Austin? Do you need help determining the price of your real estate?
Contact Hill Country Valuations LLC.

At Hill Country Valuations LLC, we understand the particular needs of a homeowner seeking 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/Pre-Listing Services

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

Need to cancel PMI?

A preferred 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". Once your mortgage loan is less than 80% of the value of your property, in most cases you can apply to your lender to have the PMI removed from your loan, which will make your monthly payments go down. We're seasoned in helping clients just like you dismiss unneeded and unwanted PMI insurance.

Challenge Tax Assessment

If you live in a local area that is going down or is not appreciating as much as other homes close to yours, your local tax assessor may have your home overvalued. This only means you're probably paying higher taxes than you should be paying. 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. An appraisal from Hill Country Valuations LLC is your number one weapon when challenging your property tax assessment.

Was your HELOC recently frozen?

If your house is in or near a declining area, your lender just may choose to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) - even if your specific property has not declined in value. This can be be detrimental to your credit score since it may appear as though that credit line is maxed out, and also inconvenient from a cash flow viewpoint. Hill Country Valuations LLC can provide you with a professional appraisal that will help you reinstate your home equity line of credit.

Need Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services?

Would you like a second opinion without the added cost and delay of waiting for a whole new appraisal? Or do you want a veteran appraiser to double-check your appraisal for preciseness? We can go out and check the subject and comps in a field review. If you're in a rush, 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? We can help with that too. While usually requested by banks, you may want to use this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your house.