Cornerstone Valuation Services Inc. understands the special needs of estate executors

The job of settling an estate, while stressful is very important. As an executor you have been entrusted to carry out the wishes of the departed as promptly and with as much dignity as possible. You can count on us to act quickly and with as much respect to the feelings of everyone left behind.

We've made it our company's goal in providing the best appraisals that attorneys and accountants have come to rely on. We realize their needs and are familiar with working with all parties involved. In our company, we are accustomed to interacting with law offices in creating appraisals that exceed their demands.

Settling an estate usually requires an appraisal to establish fair market value for the home in question. It's understandable that thinking about getting an appraisal is the farthest thought from your mind. So, it's possible the time an appraisal report is ordered will be different from the date of death. Our company is accustomed to the procedures and requirements needed to perform a retroactive appraisal with an effective date and fair market value estimate matching the date of death. The ethics provision explained within the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) conforms us to confidentiality, assuring the fullest degree of privacy for you.

The importance of needing an appraisal when dealing with revenue services to explain income when filing documents is often not considered by most people.

A comprehensive report showing the appraiser's opinion of value is required to support the methods the appraiser used to come to his conclusions. Such a report will clearly demonstrate to the IN agencies that the numbers used are accurate and correct.

An executor will be over-joyed by an appraisal by Cornerstone Valuation Services Inc. which will give him irrefutable facts and numbers to cooperate with revenue agencies' requirements. You need not worry over anything, because Cornerstone Valuation Services Inc. will be there to stand by our work if they are ever challenged.

Opinions of value displayed in documents provided to the revenue authorities absolutely should be backed by a detailed report as to how the appraiser arrived at his conclusions.