Birmingham, AL real estate appraiser Tom Horn discusses who owns the mortgage appraisal and what the buyer can do to make sure they don't overpay.| Birmingham Appraisal Blog
Birmingham, AL real estate appraiser Tom Horn answers the question: What Is A Comparable? Find out what criteria appraisers use to choose comps.| Birmingham Appraisal Blog
Birmingham, AL appraiser Tom Horn explains why agents should include bad sales in their CMA to help the appraiser understand how they priced a listing.| Birmingham Appraisal Blog
A concerned agent called me the other day worried about what would happen if the appraiser could not find comps for a house that she was selling. I assured her that even though it looked like there were no comps, there probably were if you looked a little more. This provided a good opportunity to […]| Birmingham Appraisal Blog
I was asked a question this week about what qualifies as “finished” basement area in a home. An agent was going to list a home and the basement area had some partitioned sheetrock walls in the basement. The homeowner wanted to count this as finished area, so the agent wanted to get clarification on how […]| Birmingham Appraisal Blog