waiting forever on this appraisal—is this normal?

brewer75 · 2025-04-08T02:31:31Z

Okay, seriously starting to lose patience here. We put in our mortgage application weeks ago, and everything seemed to be moving along fine until we hit the appraisal stage. Now it's like crickets. The lender keeps saying they're waiting on the appraisal report, but it's been almost three weeks now. Is this typical? I mean, I get that appraisers are busy and all, but come on...three weeks? I asked our loan officer what's up, and he just said "it's out of our hands," which honestly didn't help much. Meanwhile, we're stuck in limbo—can't really plan anything or even start packing properly because we don't know if the appraisal will come back okay or if we'll have to renegotiate or whatever. Has anyone else had to deal with this kind of delay? I'm starting to wonder if we just got unlucky or if this is some kind of standard thing that nobody warned us about.

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I've seen appraisal delays like this a few times, but I'm wondering—does it vary much by region or market size? Around here, smaller towns seem quicker, bigger cities drag things out. Not sure if that's just my experience or if there's something to it... Curious if others notice the same pattern.

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