We are high-end residential real estate appraisers servicing the Metro Washington DC market area


Connect With Me:



We specialize in Legal Cases!
 

  • Estate
  • Divorce
  • Date of Death
  • Boundry Disputes Yellow Book


Today's Rates:

Mtg Loan    Rate  APR
30-yr Fixed3.87%4%
15-yr Fixed3.14%3.31%
1-yr Adj2.76%3.42%
* national averages



Other News:
 
Harlem Art Transformation
2/6/2012 8:36 AM
Artist and designer Luis Da Cruz gutted and transformed this four-story Harlem home into a modern artist's abode...Read More
 
Foreclosure Deal Is Closer
2/6/2012 8:39 AM
Federal and state officials aim to wrap up this week a multibillion-dollar agreement with five major banks to settle probes of alleged foreclosure abuses...Read More
 
Less Building Now, Higher Office Rents Later
2/6/2012 11:13 AM
Office-building construction is in the midst of a severe drought. This means higher rents may be on the horizon in some cities, if history is any guide...Read More
 
A Modest Home for Palm Beach
2/2/2012 5:24 PM
This 2,286-square-foot house, built around 1925, has no garage but does boast original details like pecky cypress ceilings, handblown stained-glass panes in the powder-room door and Cuban tile floors...Read More
 
The House a Storm Built
2/3/2012 8:11 PM
When violent winds knocked down trees and damaged their home, a Minnesota couple seized the opportunity to start over...Read More
 
Anna Kournikova Sells in Miami
2/2/2012 10:04 PM
Anna Kournikova sells in Miami, Nobu Matsuhisa Buys in Los Angeles and a Kauai beachfront home asks $24 million...Read More
 
Romney's Stance Hits Home
2/3/2012 10:07 AM
Romney stands by his position that the government should stay out of the national housing mess and let the market "hit the bottom." But in hard-hit North Las Vegas, Nev., the implications are clear...Read More
 
Ally Financial Swings to Loss
2/2/2012 8:45 AM
Ally Financial, the U.S. government-owned auto lender, swung to a $250 million net loss in the fourth quarter after taking a charge for regulatory penalties stemming from foreclosure matters...Read More
 
Mortgage Plan Draws GOP Opposition
2/2/2012 1:21 PM
Obama is betting his latest proposal to aid the housing market will fare better than earlier efforts, despite congressional opposition...Read More
 
When the Home Bank Closes
2/1/2012 3:20 PM
The housing bust means many small businesses can no longer use home-equity loans for funding....Read More




Other News:
 
Stronger US Economy May Threaten Tax-Cut Extension
2/6/2012 2:50 PM
The better-than-expected jobs numbers released Friday may mean rising taxes for many workers...Read More
 
US States Near Landmark Settlement on Foreclosures
2/6/2012 2:50 PM
...Read More
 
Boeing Inspects 787 Dreamliner for Possible Repairs
2/6/2012 2:50 PM
...Read More
 
Obama Orders Stricter Sanctions On Iran
2/6/2012 2:50 PM
...Read More
 
JPMorgan Settles Overdraft Fee Case for $110 Million
2/6/2012 2:50 PM
...Read More
 
Hasbro Profit Tops Estimates, but Sales Miss
2/6/2012 2:50 PM
...Read More
 
Estee Lauder Forecast Lower Profit on Ad Spending
2/6/2012 2:50 PM
...Read More
 
Verizon, Coinstar Team Up to Take on Netflix
2/6/2012 2:50 PM
...Read More
 
News Corp.’s ‘The Daily’ Tablet Publication Struggles
2/6/2012 2:50 PM
...Read More
 
The Flub Watch Never Stops for Obama’s Team
2/6/2012 2:50 PM
...Read More




Other News:
 
Employment, Taxes, and War | RFWS Podcast ($$)
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
Russ Winter of Winter (Economic and Market) Watch and the Wall Street Examiner's Lee Adler discuss employment and economic maladjustments caused by the tax code stimulus programs, leading to booms followed by busts. Does it matter in the face of a coming liquidity bomb? And Russ thinks that all signs point to war with Iran. In the intermediate term...Read More
 
MF Global trustee says most missing money found
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
``A trustee seeking to distribute customer securities overseen by bankrupt MF Global Inc. said Monday that they have traced a majority of the cash that disappeared from the commodities broker. "The trustee's investigators have now traced a majority of the cash transactions, totaling more than $105 billion, made in and out of MF Global Inc. in the l...Read More
 
What If We're Beyond Mere Policy Tweaks?
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
``The mainstream view uniting the entire political spectrum is that all our financial problems can be fixed by what amounts to top-down, centralized policy tweaks and regulation: for example, tweaking policies to "tax the rich," limit the size of "too big to fail" financial institutions, regulate credit default swaps, lower the cost of healthcare (...Read More
 
Lawmakers push Fannie, Freddie to write-down mortgage principal
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
"Rep. Barney Frank and two other House Financial Services Committee Democrats on Monday pressed Edward DeMarco, the regulator of seized housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to write-down the principal on mortgages of underwater homes....Read More
 
White House to push housing plan despite Republican opposition
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
"The White House has recently promised major steps to boost the housing market and help struggling homeowners, but bruising fights with Congress loom over major pieces of the plan....Read More
 
Making Over the Mall With Parks and Sermons
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
``as though they were upholstering polyester chairs from the 1960s with Martha Stewart fabric, urban planners and community activists are trying to spruce up and rethink the uses of many of the artifacts. Schools, medical clinics, call centers, government offices and even churches are now standard tenants in malls. By hanging a curtain to hide the ...Read More
 
The January Jobs Are Statistical Artifacts
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
"Last Friday the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in the first month of this new year 243,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate (U.3) fell to 8.3 percent. This good news is a mirage. It is due to faulty seasonal adjustments and to the BLS birth/death model. In a prolonged downturn, seasonal adjustments and the birth/death model...Read More
 
Ron Paul Warns Of Federal Reserve Power Grab
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
"Not only was Obama's appointment of Richard Cordray to the misnamed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) unconstitutional, but the newly minted federal leviathan itself is in direct violation of Constitution, specifically the Tenth Amendment....Read More
 
Deal Is Closer for a U.S. Plan on Mortgage Relief
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
"The biggest remaining holdout, California, has returned to the negotiating table after a four-month absence, a change of heart that could increase the pot for mortgage relief nationwide to $25 billion from $19 billion....Read More
 
Bank of America, Wells and Chase's legal woes mount as New York sues
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
"New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued banking's Big Three -- J.P. Morgan Chase , Bank of America and Wells Fargo -- on Friday over their use of an electronic mortgage database that played a key role in financing the nation's historic housing bubble....Read More




Other News:
 
Fraudster Banned Forever from Mortgage Industry
2/6/2012 9:25 AM

Michael Hudalla, Mendota Heights, Minnesota, was sentenced by a Hennepin County District Court Judge to 75 months in prison on two counts of racketeering in a major mortgage fraud case.

Read More
 
Mortgage Fraud - A Family Affair
2/5/2012 4:08 PM

Ivania Filgueiras, 40, Miami, Florida; Jose Armando Alvarado, 62, Miami; Maria C. Alvarado, 62, Miami; Reyna Josefina Orts, 57, Miami; Alberto Morejon, 25, Miami; and Carlos Serrano, 56, Hialeah, Florida, have been charged for their roles in a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in appro...Read More

 
Woman Arraigned in Cash for Keys Scam
2/3/2012 11:14 AM

Quddusa Lynette Anderson, 38, Patton, California, who allegedly to have operated a "cash for keys" scam in Rancho Cucamonga, California, has been charged with Burglary, Forgery and Grand Theft. 

Read More
 
Jury Convicts Texan of Mortgage Fraud
2/3/2012 10:22 AM

Rodney Lavann Giles, 45, DeSoto, Texas, has been found guilty by a jury in a mortgage fraud scheme that involved homes in the Eastern District of Texas.

Read More
 
Credit Suisse Directors Charged with Inflating Mortgage Backed Securities
2/3/2012 2:48 AM

Kareem Serageldin, David Higgs, and Salmaan Siddiqui, respectively, Credit Suisse Directors, have been charged with fraudulently inflating the prices of asset-backed bonds which comprised subprime residential mortgage backed securities (“RMBS”) and commercial mortgage backed securities (“CMBS”) in Credit Su...Read More

 
Husband & Wife Sentenced for Occupying Vacant Foreclosures
2/2/2012 10:09 AM

Chris Wayne Duncan, 43, and Robin Ann Duncan, 37, Newport Beach, California, were convicted and sentenced for conspiring to illegally occupy a home as "squatters" by locating residences that were vacant and in foreclosure.

Read More
 
Guilty Plea Entered By Ex Lawyer in Mortgage Fraud Case
2/2/2012 9:58 AM

James D. Levitt, 66, Rhode Island, a former attorney, pled guilty in federal court in Providence, Rhode Island, to three counts of bank fraud and two counts of filing false tax returns for his role in a million-dollar mortgage fraud scheme.

Read More
 
Defendant In Robo-Signing Case Files Motion to Dismiss
2/2/2012 2:33 AM

Lender Processing Services, Inc., a company which provides integrated technology, data, and analytics to the mortgage and real estate industries, responded to the civil complaint filed by the Nevada Attorney General against the company in December 2011, by filing a Motion to Dismiss.

Read More
 
Condo Scam Lands Man in Jail for 4 Years
2/1/2012 10:34 AM

Gerald James Greenfield, 66, Bloomington, Minnesota, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in connection with his participation in a $2.5-million mortgage fraud scheme that involved the sale of condominiums in the Sexton Lofts building in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota.

...Read More
 
2 Indicted for Home Equity Loan Scam
2/1/2012 2:32 AM

Andrey Kim, 28, Sacramento, California, and Sultanmurod Rashidov, 29, Brooklyn, New York, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of mail fraud and money laundering in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme that resulted in losses of at least $180,000 to lenders.

Read More




Other News:
 
Current Weather Conditions In Washington, DC (20007)
2/6/2012 8:46 PM
...Read More
 
Your Local Doppler Radar
2/6/2012 8:46 PM
This map shows the location and intensity of precipitation in your area. The color of the precipitation corresponds to the rate at which it is falling. This map is updated every 15 minutes...Read More
 
Pollen Trend for Washington, DC (20007)
2/6/2012 8:46 PM
Steady. View complete PollenCast...Read More
 
Video: Your Regional Weather Forecast
2/6/2012 8:46 PM
Watch what the experts at The Weather Channel® have to say about the weather trends in your area...Read More
 
ADV: Upgrade to weather.com Gold!
2/6/2012 8:46 PM
Get advanced storm tracking maps and weather for 10 cities in one-click, all with no ads! Start your free trial now...Read More
 
Your Weekend Forecast For Washington, DC (20007)
2/6/2012 8:46 PM
Chance of Precipitation: Fri: 20% / Sat: 20% / Sun: 0%. For complete forecast details.....Read More
 
Your 10-Day Forecast for Washington, DC (20007)
2/6/2012 8:46 PM
Tonight: Low 38°F.---- Tue: Sunny & High 56°F / Low 39°F.---- Wed: PM Showers & High 42°F / Low 35°F.---- Thu & Beyond.... For more details...Read More




Today's News Stories from Bankrate.com®:
 
Reporting gambling winnings
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
Did you win big at the races? Uncle Sam wants to know about your good luck...Read More
 
6 ways conventional wisdom wastes money
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
Some widely held beliefs can leave you poor. These deserve to be debunked...Read More
 
Can wages be garnished for old debt?
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
Old debt never dies, but there is an expiration on a creditor's ability to garnish wages...Read More
 
To pay for your kid's college, HELOC or refi?
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
To fund your child's education, these loans can help. Find out which is best...Read More
 
Caring for your pet after you're gone
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
You may not always be around to care for your pet. Don't let Fido be left to the dogs...Read More
 
Pros & cons of investing in company stock
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
Company stock is a common workplace perk, but it's not always a good investment...Read More
 
Right-brain investing: no math, no problem
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
Play the market without solving equations. Channel your right brain for sage investing...Read More
 
Don't buy stocks in these market sectors in 2012
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
Buying the right stock means knowing what to avoid. Here are several sectors to skip and why...Read More
 
Spot profit-eating investment fees
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
Don't let investing fees soak up your gains. Scope out these costs that can shrink your return...Read More
 
BRICs: building return from emerging markets
2/5/2012 6:00 PM
Brazil, Russia, India, China. Find out why the future of investing may be in emerging markets...Read More



This service is supplied by Bankrate.com and is protected by copyright and owned by Bankrate.com.

                 


 

WE USE SKYPE -WITH VIDEO

My status

 

 


Area Appraisal Services, Inc. 4865-A Cordell Avenue Suite 250 Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone: Cell: Fax:

Staff -Licenses-E&O | Contact Us | Pictures! | Maryland | Virginia-Home-Appraiser | Washington | Local Area Business | Find An Appraiser | Testimonial for Steve | Value Check | FHA Check List | New Forms Chart | Report Requirements | Attorney | Foreclosure Appraisal | still on Market | Find out home is worth Today | Qualification of Appraiser | Implode-O-Meter | County Tax Records | FHA New Requirements | Links | CPA | Date of Death - Bethesda | Date of Death - Chevy Chase | Date of Death - Potomac | Date of Death - Silver Spring | Date of Death - Rockville | Date of Death - Leisure World | Date of Death - Gaithersburg | Date of Death - Germantown | Date of Death - Washington | Date of Death - McLean | Date of Death - Great Falls | Divorce - Bethesda | Divorce - Chevy Chase | Divorce - Potomac | Divorce - Rockville | Divorce - Silver Spring | Divorce - Germantown | Divorce - Gaithersburg | OREO - Prince Georges | Date of Death - Montgomery County | Yellow Book-MD | Yellow Book - DC | Yellow Book - VA | Difference | Date of Death - Howard | Date of Death - Montgomery Village | Date of Death - Garrett Park | Date of Death - Kensington | Date of Death - Georgetown | Date of Death - Dupont Circle | Date of Death - Foggy Bottom | Date of Death - TenleyTown | Date of Death - Columbia Heights | Date of Death - Friendship Heights | Date of Death - Somerset House | Boundary Dispute | Land-MD | REO-Maryland | REO-Motgomery Co | REO-PG County | Montgomery County - Landing | Pre-listing2 | Appraisal in Bethesda | Appraisal in Chevy Chase | Appraisal in Rockville | Appraisal in Silver Spring | Appraisal in Potomac | Appraisal in Gaithersburg | Appraisal in Germantown | Kensington Appraisal | How to Prepare | Estate Appraisals | Divorce | Expert Witness Testimony | News | Glossary of Terms | Home | Site Map | 15 vs 30 Year Mtg Calc | Mtg Tax Savings Calc | Refi Interest Savings Calc | Mortgage Fraud | Our Service Area | SRA Designation | Pre-Listing Appraisals | Date of Death Valuations | Foreclosure/REO Appraisal | Appraisal Reviews | My Blog

Copyright © 2012 Area Appraisal Services, Inc.
Portions Copyright © 2012 a la mode, inc.
Another XSite by a la mode, inc. | Admin LoginTerms of UseSite Map