Attention homeowners in Houston and Harris County: Get an Appraisal today!

The top seven reasons TX homeowners use Harrington Appraisal Company:

Find the right listing price (whether you're using a real estate agent or selling the home on your own)
To challenge a TX property tax assessment
Remove PMI to reduce a mortgage payment
Reinstate their Home Equity Line of Credit (or HELOC)
Verify a different appraiser's report
In the case of a TX divorce, where property needs to be divided
To settle an estate in TX by determining the true market value of real estate in question

Do you own a house in or near Houston? Do you need help determining the price of your real estate?
Contact Harrington Appraisal Company.

At Harrington Appraisal Company, we understand the individual needs of a consumer after appraisal services. Our business practices and reporting formats are relatively routine to our business clients like lenders, lawyers, and CPAs. But as a consumer,we will give you extra guidance and explanations through the appraisal process to better understand what we do and how we report our conclusions.

Pre-listing Services/For Sale By Owner

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

Appraisals to remove PMI

A popular way to cut expenses for homeowners is to get the PMI removed 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 amount is down below 80% of the value of your home. In most cases you can apply to your lender to have the PMI removed from your loan. Harrington Appraisal Company is veterans in helping consumers just like you rid yourselves of undesirable PMI insurance.

Challenging property tax assessments

Your local tax assessor may have your home overvalued if you live in a region that's going down. That only means you're going to pay more taxes than you should. The faster you take care of things like this, the better, since your property assessment may likely go up again in the next period. An expert appraisal from Harrington Appraisal Company is your #1 weapon when challenging your property tax assessment.

HELOC recently frozen?

If your home is in a declining area, your lender just may make the decision to automatically freeze your home equity line of credit (HELOC) - 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 inconvenient from a cash flow standpoint. A professional appraisal from Harrington Appraisal Company can help you reinstate your HELOC.

We Also Provide Field and Desktop Appraisal Review Services

Do you need a seasoned expert to double-check your appraisal for precision, or do you need 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 comps in question in a field review. If you need it 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.

Do you need a retrospective review of an appraisal? Harrington Appraisal Company can help you with that. Even though this is usually requested by banks, you may wish to exercise this service if you suspect mortgage fraud related to your property.