He will give a sales comps approach, cost to rebuild approach, and income approach to value but his final appraised value conclusion will match the sales comps approach which is what lenders will use. 

The builder put in a really paltry staircase that doesn’t match with the rest of the aesthetic of the home.

Depends if you can find the matching product in that color.

It's a split-level, and they turned the two-car garage into an "apartment" area; they removed the garage doors, sided the exterior walls to match the rest of the house, insulated, drywalled, & painted the interior walls, etc.

If so, review it to ensure it matches the estoppel certificate4.

You need clear forms of ID that match the name you are vesting- an ITIN number or LLC is another set of loops and verification needed. 

Clarification is needed as the responses on here don’t match what I have read elsewhere. 

I know HomeSnap works similarly, where if I take a picture of a property, it uses it's software to take my GPS coordinates, search public records and match the public records address with MLS and then because I'm a Realtor with access to MLS I can see the actual listing data if it is a listing, or if it's off market it simply says off market and just reports the information from the last sale/public records.Zillow, Trulia, Redfin, Realtor.com all do the same thing. 

My w-2 doesnt have a 401k so I am not 100% familiar with the way it works, however if my employers match was already in the 401k and I could withdraw it at any point, I would likely withdraw it and search for good RE deals, just because I would know what I am investing in.

@Zach Wain problem with your recommendation: when the awful hazard insurance claim arrives, the insurance company will balk at paying the name on the policy as does not match ownership.