Anderson & Associates upholds the utmost professional ethics

The appraiser's primary responsibility is to their client. Normally, for a typical residential appraisal, the appraiser's client is the lender ordering the appraisal, and often the appraisal is ordered by a third party the lender has brought in to maintain independence. Certain details relating to an assignment are to be shared with the appraiser's client. As a homeowner, if you desire to review the appraisal document, you normally have to obtain it through your lender.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the scope of the assignment, reaching and sustaining a particular level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Here at Anderson & Associates, we take these ethical responsibilities very to heart.

Appraisers will regularly need to consider the interests of third parties, including homeowners, buyers and sellers, or others. Those third parties normally are spelled out in the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary roll is only to those parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the order.

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Appraisers also have duties outside of boundaries of clients and others. For example, appraisers must backup their work files for at least five years - something else Anderson & Associates diligently adheres to.

We meet or exceed the industry standards and rules set in place for professional behavior. We can't accept anything less from ourselves. Doing assignments 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 collect the fee only if the loan closes. Anyone should be able to see that inflating a value to achieve a bigger paycheck is unethical!

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice explicitly describes a violation in ethics 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 follow these rules to the letter which means you can rest easy knowing we are working hard to get you an accurate home or property value.

With Anderson & Associates, you won't have any doubts that you're receiving 100 percent ethical, professional service.