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Honesty and Integrity: Certified Real Estate Appraisers, LLC

Appraising is, by and large, a long term career. Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have increased more than ever in the past. So it goes without question in this day and age that real estate appraisal can certainly be called a profession as opposed to a trade. In our field, as with any profession, we are bound by ethical considerations.

We have quite a few obligations as appraisers, but our main duty is to our clients. Typically, in residential practice, the appraiser's client is the lender ordering the appraisal, and often the appraisal is ordered by a third party the lender has brought in to maintain independence. It follows that appraisers have certain duties of privacy to their clients, plus many rules and regulations that must be followed. So, as a homeowner, if you desire to obtain a copy of an appraisal report, you normally have to get it through your lender and not the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include accurate figures appropriate to the nature of the report, reaching and keeping an appropriate level of competency and education, and of course, the appraiser must behave in a professional manner. Here at Certified Real Estate Appraisers, LLC, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

Appraisers can also have fiduciary obligations to third parties, including homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Normally the third parties are specifically defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary duty is restricted to those third parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the order.


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There are also ethical rules 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 Certified Real Estate Appraisers, LLC diligently adheres to.

We demand the highest ethical standards possible from ourselves. Working on orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. That means we are not able to agree to do an appraisal report and base our pay upon coming up with a particular value conclusion. There's certainly a conflict of interest if an appraiser can report an unsubstantiated value with the reward of getting paid more money!

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") also states 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" as well as other situations. We diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can rest easy knowing we are working hard to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

With Certified Real Estate Appraisers, LLC, you won't have any doubts that you're getting 100 percent ethical, honest service.