San Diego Appraisal Company provides honest and ethical appraisals for San Diego County

San Diego Appraisal Company maintains the utmost professional ethics

We consider our job as a profession. The rigors of becoming a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever in the past. So it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can unquestionably be dubbed a profession as opposed to a trade. As with any profession we must follow strict ethical considerations.

The appraiser's chief responsibility is to their client. 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. Certain matters relating to an assignment are to be discussed with the appraiser's client. So, as a homeowner, if you would like to review the appraisal document, you generally should request it from your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment parameters, reaching and sustaining an appropriate level of competency and education, and of course, the appraiser must behave in a professional manner. Here at San Diego Appraisal Company, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

Appraisers may sometimes have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, including homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Normally the third parties are clearly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is limited to those parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the order.


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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 - at San Diego Appraisal Company you can rest assured that we stick to that rule.

While busy with an appraisal, we follow the highest ethical standards possible. Working on assignments based on contingency fees is never an option. That is, we don't agree to do an appraisal report and collect payment on the contingency of the loan closing. It should be obvious that inflating a value to achieve what amounts to a higher fee is unethical! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") clearly 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 diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can rest easy knowing we are working hard to objectively determine the home or property value.

With San Diego Appraisal Company, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, honest service.