For honest and ethical appraisals, rely on Kirkpatrick Appraisal Services

We have quite a few responsibilities as appraisers, but first and foremost we answer to our clients. 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 retained to maintain independence. Appraisers are typically restricted to only disclosing their findings to their clients, so as a homeowner, if you would like to review an appraisal report, you generally should request it from your lender and not the appraiser.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment parameters, reaching and keeping a respectable level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Maintaining high ethics is just normal course of business for us at Kirkpatrick Appraisal Services.

Appraisers may also have fiduciary obligations to third parties, such as homeowners, both sellers and buyers, or others. Those third parties normally are spelled out in scope of the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is restricted to those third parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the job.

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There are also ethical standards that have nothing to do with clients and others. For example, appraisers must keep their work files for at least five years - something else Kirkpatrick Appraisal Services makes a part of their standard routine.

When busy with an appraisal, we follow the highest ethical standards possible. Accepting assignments where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. That is, we are not able to 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 fabricating a property's value to achieve essentially a higher fee is unethical!

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice explicitly describes 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" as well as other situations. We diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be assured we are going above and beyond to get you an accurate home or property value.

When you engage Kirkpatrick Appraisal Services, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you deserve along with the principles we're known for.