Estate Settlement

Estate Settlement Appraisals

Estate settlement is often stressful, but a very important job. It’s up to you as an executor to carry out the wishes of the deceased as quickly and attentively as possible. You can count on us to respond expeditiously and with as much empathy to the feelings of everyone involved.

Part of Bolton Appraisal Services’s goal is to offer top-notch, ethical appraisals that lawyers can depend on. There are required needs for everyone; we are sympathetic to these necessities and are used to dealing with all parties involved. In relation to our familiarity in dealing with the courts and various agencies, we provide appraisals that definitely exceed all expectations.

 Contact us immediately to discuss your personal estate appraisal demands and how we can put our experience to work for you.

Settling an estate usually demands an appraisal to ascertain market value for the house in question. We understand that in this time of loss, ordering an appraisal report is the furthest thought from your mind. So, there’s a chance the date an appraisal is requested will not match the date of death. We are accustomed to the systems and requirements necessary to produce a retrospective appraisal with an effective date and market value estimate matching the date your loved one passed away. The ethical requirements listed within the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) conforms us to confidentiality, ensuring the fullest degree of privacy for you and your loved ones.

Many times, people do not fully comprehend the necessity in having a comprehensive real estate appraisal supplied in support of the numbers displayed in general documents filed with the IRS and California state agencies. Opinions of value shown in documents provided to the IRS and California agencies definitely should be backed by an exhaustive report as to how the appraiser acquired his conclusions. In having a report backed by Bolton Appraisal Services’s professional appraisers, you will have the peace of mind that the numbers provided in the appraisal report will clearly demonstrate to the authorities that the numbers used are accurate and substantiated. Bolton Appraisal will provide a substantiated report, which will provide an executor clear facts and numbers that will meet IRS and state agency requirements. It assures peace of mind to everyone concerned because we will always be there to stand behind the report if it is ever challenged.