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Marital Dissolution or Divorce Appraisals   Finalizing a divorce involves many decisions, including "Who gets the house"? There are generally two options regarding the house - it can be sold and the proceeds divided, or one party can "buy out" the other. In either case, one or both parties should...

Analyzing the Sales Contract  Within all lending appraisals performed for purchases the appraiser is required to "analyze" the sales contract.  This means that the appraiser needs a signed, by both seller and buyer, and dated copy of the contract.  If this copy is not supplied the appraiser must ...

Shelter Island    The Township of Shelter Island is geographically located in eastern Suffolk County between Long Island's north and south fork.  The island comprises 12.1 square miles (around 8,000 acres) of land area including nearly one third of vacant land owned by The Nature Conservatory, wh...

Southampton       The Township of Southampton is located approximately eighty miles from New York City on the South Fork of Long Island.  The Town encompasses an area of 140.2 square miles or 89,728 acres. Southampton is the largest and most populous of the five East End Towns of Suffolk County. ...

Southold    The Township of Southold is on the easternmost portion of Long Islands North Fork consisting of 53.7 square miles of land and 350.8 square miles of water.  The township has waterfront properties along three of its four borders and features many creeks, inlets and harbors for small rec...

East Hampton   The Town is the easternmost town on Long Island (Suffolk County, New York State). It encompasses a land area of 70 square miles on Long Island's south fork and has almost 70 miles of waterfront on three sides. The Town of Southampton to the west, the Atlantic Ocean to the east and ...

Appraising Real Estate on Fire Island     Fire Island is a barrier island along the southern shore of Long Islands Suffolk County.  The island is, approximately 31 miles long and varies between approximately 0.1 mile to 0.25 mile wide. Fire Island is separated from the main land by the Great Sout...

Seller Services If you are going to sell your property it would be wise to invest in a professional appraisal. Professional appraisals do not cost money; they pay in the long run! Unless a property owner studies real estate values on a day-to-day basis, like a professional appraiser does, it's di...