Honesty and Integrity: Gant Real Estate Appraisal Service

We have many obligations as appraisers, but our main duty is to our clients. Generally, for a normal residential appraisal, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. Consequently, appraisers have certain duties of confidentiality to their clients, plus many rules and regulations controlling with whom we share information. So, as a homeowner, if you want to review an appraisal report, you generally should get it via your lender and not the appraiser.

Other obligations include accurate calculations appropriate to the nature of the assignment, reaching and sustaining an appropriate level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Here at Gant Real Estate Appraisal Service, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

Appraisers will frequently be required to consider the interests of third parties, including 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 duty is restricted to those third parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the assignment.

	Gant Real Estate Appraisal Service has an established track record for providing appraisals with the highest of ethics. Contact us today to learn more.

There are also ethical duties that have nothing to do with clients and others. For example, appraisers must be able to produce their work files for a minimum of five years - at Gant Real Estate Appraisal Service you can rest assured that we abide by that rule.

While working on an order, we follow the highest ethical standards possible. Accepting orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. That is, we don'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 fabricating a property's value to achieve essentially a bigger paycheck is unethical! We just don't do it.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice explicitly states 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" in addition to other situations We diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can rest easy knowing we are going above and beyond to get you an accurate home or property value.

As soon as you request an appraisal from Gant Real Estate Appraisal Service, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you expect along with the honesty and integrity we're known for.