![]() AmeriPRIDE Appraisal Corp upholds the utmost professional ethics
Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever before. That's why it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can definitely be called a profession as opposed to a trade. In our field, as with any profession, we must follow strict ethical considerations.
We have a lot of obligations as appraisers, but our primary 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.
Thereon, appraisers are privy to a lot of data, and like an attorney, can only discuss many of these matters with their client. As
a homeowner, if you desire a copy of the appraisal document, you generally should get it through your lender.
AmeriPRIDE Appraisal Corp holds itself to the industry standards and guidelines set in place for professional behavior. We won't accept anything less from ourselves. Doing assignments based on contingency fees 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. It should be obvious that inflating a value to achieve essentially a bigger paycheck is unethical! We set ourselves to a higher standard. Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice also defines 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" as well as other situations. We follow these rules to the letter which means you can be confident we are working hard to get you an accurate home or property value. With AmeriPRIDE Appraisal, you won't have any doubts that you're getting 100 percent ethical, honest service. |