Fair Market Value Appraisals 101
Establishing a value prior to an estate sale
Fair Market Value Appraisals are non-certified. To illustrate, family members sometimes need or want a value of a homes contents. That is a fair market value appraisal, specifically. However, it is not for insurance or replacement value, as you would think. A certified appraisal is what fills that need.
Fair Market Appraisals can helped alleviate problems in some situations
Family members sometimes want to know the value of the items each family member chooses to keep.
Accordingly, a fair market appraisal can determine that. In brief, a fair market value appraisal can balance the scales and alleviate conflicts that sometimes family members can enter into. As you can imagine, family dynamics vary. It is wise to offer a Fair Market Value Appraisal if it seems necessary.
Other offered services
Sales is not our only objective; being a service oriented company, to us, is just as important.
For example, fiduciaries, attorneys and family members have all asked us to meet basic needs.
- Delivery Service: Purchase and relocate furniture to her clients retirement apartment
- Hoarder Cleanout: Clean up a gentleman’s home who was burying himself alive with trash, food wrappers, used kleenex and old mail
- Appraisal of items in storage: Go thru, itemize, appraise and re-box and place back in storage all items in a group of storage lockers
- Box for auction: We were asked to box and deliver all items in a home to an auction
- Find important items in an estate: Go thru all of the bags the family threw away to look for safety deposit keys, a will or trust, life insurance policies etc. As a result, we found about $80,000 in a garage floor safe