Perkins Appraisal upholds the utmost professional ethics

An appraiser's primary responsibility is to their client. 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 hired in order to maintain independence. Appraisers have certain duties of privacy to their clients, plus many rules and regulations that must be followed. So, as a homeowner, if you want to review the appraisal document, you generally should obtain it from your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include accurate calculations appropriate to the scope of the assignment, acquiring and keeping an appropriate level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Maintaining high ethics and client confidentiality is standard operating procedure for us at Perkins Appraisal.

Appraisers may regularly have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, including homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Typically the third parties are clearly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary duty is limited 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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Appraisers also have rules outside of boundaries of with whom we share information For example, appraisers must keep their work files for at least five years - at Perkins Appraisal you can rest assured that we adhere to that rule.

We demand the highest ethical standards possible from ourselves. Doing assignments where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. 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 fabricating a home's value to achieve essentially a bigger paycheck is unethical! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") explicitly 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" in addition to other situations We diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be at ease knowing we are going above and beyond to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

With Perkins Appraisal, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, professional service.