ASAP Appraisal Group upholds the highest professional ethics

We have quite a few obligations as appraisers, but our main duty is to our clients. Typically, in residential practice, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. Consequently, 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 review the appraisal document, you normally have to obtain it from your lender.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the scope of the assignment, reaching and maintaining an appropriate level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Here at ASAP Appraisal Group, we take these ethical responsibilities very to heart.

Appraisers can also have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, including homeowners, buyers and sellers, or others. Typically the third parties are explicitly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is only to those third parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the order.

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There are also ethical standards that have nothing to do with clients and others. For example, appraisers must store their work files for at least five years - something else ASAP Appraisal Group makes a part of their standard routine.

We require the highest professional integrity possible from ourselves. Doing assignments based on contingency fees 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 certainly a 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 also describes unethical behavior as accepting 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 follow these rules to the letter which means you can be assured we are working hard to get you an accurate home or property value.

When you engage ASAP Appraisal Group, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you expect along with the honesty and integrity we're known for.