Do I Need An Appraisal?

        You don't if all you need is a rough ballpark estimate. You can get that from a neighbor, the newspapers, a real estate agent broker, or your banker. You do if your buying or selling, insuring or making a claim, financing, Grieving property taxes, probating a will, settling a lawsuit or divorce, involved in a bankruptcy, dissolution, or other litigation -- in other words, if you need an accurate estimate by a State Certified Appraiser.