Area Appraisal Services, Inc. provides honest and ethical appraisals for Montgomery County

Area Appraisal Services, Inc. maintains the utmost professional ethics

Appraising is a profession, and appraisers are professionals. Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have increased more than ever in the past. So it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can certainly be considered a profession rather than a trade. As with any profession we have a strict ethical code.

The appraiser's main responsibility is to their client. Typically, for a standard residential appraisal, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. Consequently, appraisers are typically restricted to only disclosing their findings to their clients, so as a homeowner, if you would like to review the appraisal document, you normally should get it via your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, reaching and maintaining a certain level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Here at Area Appraisal Services, Inc., we take these ethical responsibilities very to heart.

Appraisers will often be required to consider the interests of third parties, such as homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Those third parties normally are listed in scope of the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary role is limited to those third parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the job.


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There are also ethical rules that have nothing to do with clients and others. For example, appraisers must backup their work files for a minimum of five years - something else Area Appraisal Services, Inc. diligently adheres to.

We only perform to the highest ethical standards possible. Doing orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. That means we can't agree to do an appraisal report and base our pay upon coming up with a particular value conclusion. It should be obvious that fabricating a property's value to achieve essentially a bigger fee is unethical! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice explicitly defines 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" 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 objectively determine the home or property value.

With Area Appraisal Services, Inc., you won't have any doubts that you're receiving 100 percent ethical, professional service.