Appraise It Florida provides honest and ethical appraisals for Hernando County

Appraise It Florida maintains the highest professional ethics

We think of what we do as a profession. The rigors of becoming a licensed appraiser have increased more than ever before. So it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can unquestionably be considered a profession rather than a trade. In our field, as with any profession, we are bound by ethical considerations.

An appraiser's main obligation 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 contracted in order to maintain independence. Thereon, appraisers have certain duties of privacy to their clients, plus many rules and regulations that must be followed. As a homeowner, if you want to obtain a copy of the appraisal document, you normally should get it via your lender and not the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include accurate sums appropriate to the parameters of the assignment, attaining and keeping a particular level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Here at Appraise It Florida, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

In some cases appraisers will have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, including homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Those third parties normally are spelled out in scope of the appraisal assignment itself. 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 duties that have nothing to do with whom we share information. For example, appraisers must keep their work files for a minimum of five years - something else Appraise It Florida makes a part of their standard routine.

We meet or exceed the industry standards and rules set in place for ethics. We refuse to accept anything less from ourselves. Accepting assignments 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 collect the fee only if the loan closes. Anyone should be able to see that fabricating a property's value to achieve a bigger fee is unethical! We set ourselves to a higher standard.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") also states a violation in ethics 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 follow these rules to the letter which means you can rest easy knowing we are doing everything we can to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

With Appraise It Florida, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, professional service.