When a home fails to appraise out in value, that puts the entire sale in jeopardy, as your friends now know.
Many loan professionals will tell their borrowers that they are prequalified for a loan, but being prequalified is very different from getting a true approval letter from that lender, which commits to funding your loan, provided it appraises out in value.
"Now the debt is so high that no legitimate lender is going to refinance, because it just won't appraise out," Ekonomides said.
Evidence summaries offered information that "had already been critically appraised, filtered out so most of the rubbish wasn't there".
The family home, it turned out, was appraised at over $1 million, more than double what they thought it was worth.
It's hard to resist getting excited when an old couple from New Orleans brings a cigarette case they have had with them for over 70 years to get appraised, only to find out it is a Cartier case and worth $75,000.
"But then I go out and look at the house I'm appraising and find out that it backs up to a highway, or maybe it backs up to a real neat lake".
Only they must have known something he didn't, because when he took it to get it appraised, he found out it was certainly not a special piece.
The median for the 20 DAs appraised was 10 out of 16 points.
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