Accurate Appraisal Group upholds the utmost professional ethics

An appraiser's main obligation is to their client. Most of the time, for a regular residential appraisal, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. Appraisers are privy to a lot of information, and like an attorney, can only discuss many of these matters with their client. As a homeowner, if you want to obtain a copy of the appraisal document, you normally should request it via your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment parameters, reaching and maintaining an appropriate level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Here at Accurate Appraisal Group, we take these ethical responsibilities very to heart.

Appraisers will sometimes be required to consider the interests of third parties, such as homeowners, both sellers and buyers, or others. Those third parties normally are spelled out in scope of the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary role is only to those third parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the job.

	Accurate Appraisal Group has an established track record for performing appraisals with the highest of ethics. Contact us today to learn more.

There are also ethical duties that have nothing to do with whom we share information. For example, appraisers must store their work files for a minimum of five years - something else Accurate Appraisal Group diligently adheres to.

Accurate Appraisal Group holds itself to the industry standards and rules set in place for professional behavior. We can't accept anything less from ourselves. Doing assignments where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. In other words, we can't agree to do an appraisal report and collect payment on the contingency of the loan closing. There's an obvious conflict of interest if an appraiser can report a larger value with the reward of getting paid more money!

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice explicitly defines unethical behavior as the acceptance of an assignment that is contingent on "the reporting of a pre-determined result (e.g., opinion of value)", "a direction in assignment results that favors the cause of the client", or "the amount of a value opinion" in addition to other situations We diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be confident we are working hard to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

As soon as you request an appraisal from Accurate Appraisal Group, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you expect along with the high ethical standards we're known for.