For honest and ethical appraisals, trust Anderson Appraisals

We have a great deal of responsibilities as appraisers, but our chief duty is to our clients. Most of the time, 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. It follows that appraisers have certain duties of privacy to their clients, plus strict rules and regulations to which we must adhere. So, as a homeowner, if you want a copy of the appraisal document, you generally should request it through your lender.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, attaining and sustaining an adequate level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Maintaining high ethics is standard operating procedure for us at Anderson Appraisals.

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

	Anderson Appraisals has an established reputation for performing competent and ethically superior appraisals. Contact us today to learn more.

Appraisers also have standards outside of boundaries of clients and others. For example, appraisers must store their work files for a minimum of five years - at Anderson Appraisals you can rest assured that we stick to that rule.

When creating reports, we follow the highest ethical standards possible. Working on orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is not something we can consider. That means we can't agree to do an appraisal report and base our pay upon coming up with a particular value conclusion. Anyone should be able to see that inflating a value to achieve a bigger paycheck is unethical! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") explicitly describes 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 diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be confident we are doing everything we can to get you an accurate home or property value.

As soon as you request an appraisal from Anderson Appraisals, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you deserve along with the high ethical standards we're known for.