For honest and ethical appraisals, count on Deep Creek Appraisal Associates (301) 387-7874

The appraiser's chief responsibility is to their client. More often than not, 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 controlling with whom we share information. As a homeowner, if you would like to obtain a copy of the appraisal document, you normally should request it via your lender and not the appraiser.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, attaining and keeping a particular level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Maintaining high ethics and client confidentiality is what we do every day at Deep Creek Appraisal Associates (301) 387-7874.

Appraisers may sometimes have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, such as homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Normally the third parties are clearly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary duty is limited to those parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the job.

	Deep Creek Appraisal Associates (301) 387-7874 has an established reputation for performing competent and ethically superior appraisals. Contact us today to learn more.

There are also ethical standards that have nothing to do with whom we share information. For example, appraisers must backup their work files for at least five years - at Deep Creek Appraisal Associates (301) 387-7874 you can rest assured that we abide by that rule.

Deep Creek Appraisal Associates (301) 387-7874 holds itself to the industry standards and mandates set in place for professional behavior. We refuse to accept anything less from ourselves. Working on assignments where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. In other words, 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 apparent to anyone that inflating a value to achieve what amounts to a bigger fee is unethical! We just don't do it.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice explicitly defines 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 be assured we are doing everything we can to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

As soon as you order an appraisal from Deep Creek Appraisal Associates (301) 387-7874, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you deserve along with the high ethical standards we're known for.