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Fighting a Bad Appraisal: How We Protected $33K in Equity
When the appraisal came in $33,000 under contract, most would have renegotiated or walked. We didn't.
On this episode of Selling Sacramento, I walk through a real North Oak Park transaction where the first appraisal got it wrong — wrong comps, wrong micro-market, and a failure to account for a 2025 rebuild. The standard Reconsideration of Value came back unchanged. Supervisory review came back unchanged. And still, the valuation was flawed.
Here's what happened next — and why the original appraisal was ultimately invalidated, a second appraisal ordered at no cost to the borrower, and the…
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