Does the new dishwasher help? The appraiser laughed, kindly.
First rental purchase, closing in a few weeks. I got permission to be at the appraisal because I wanted to see how it worked and because I'm nervous about everything right now.
The seller had put in a new dishwasher and a new range about a month before listing, both still with stickers on them. I asked the appraiser, when he came through the kitchen, whether that helped the number. He laughed, not meanly, and said something like "a little, less than you'd think, and less than they spent." Then he said the things that move his number the most in this price range are square footage, bedroom and bathroom count, garage, lot, and condition overall.
He spent longer on the roof from the driveway than he did in the kitchen. He asked me twice about the age of the furnace and I didn't know, so he went and read the label.
What surprised me was how much of it was him talking to himself out loud. He'd say "okay so that's original" or "somebody did this themselves" and keep moving. Once he said "that's a nice job actually" about the bathroom tile and I felt weirdly proud of a house I don't own yet.
Came in at contract exactly, which I'm told means nothing bad happened.