Honesty and Integrity: AppraiserJoe.com

We have quite a few responsibilities as appraisers, but our main duty is to our clients. Normally, in residential practice, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. Thereon, appraisers are privy to a lot of data, and like an attorney, can only discuss many of these matters with their client. As a homeowner, if you desire a copy of an appraisal report, you normally should get it from your lender.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment parameters, acquiring and sustaining an adequate level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Here at AppraiserJoe.com, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

Appraisers will regularly be obligated to consider the interests of third parties, such as homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Generally the third parties are clearly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary role is only to those parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the order.

	AppraiserJoe.com has worked hard for its reputation for performing appraisals with the highest of ethics. To learn more, contact us.

There are also ethical duties that have nothing to do with whom we share information. For example, appraisers must backup their work files for a minimum of five years - at AppraiserJoe.com you can rest assured that we stick to that rule.

We meet or exceed the industry standards and guidelines set in place for ethics. We refuse to accept anything less from ourselves. Accepting orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is not something we can consider. That means we don't agree to do an appraisal report and collect payment on the contingency of the loan closing. It should be obvious that inflating a value to achieve what amounts to a bigger fee is unethical! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice also 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 assured we are working hard to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

As soon as you engage AppraiserJoe.com, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you expect along with the high ethical standards we're known for.