Keller Appraisal maintains the utmost professional ethics

An appraiser's primary 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 contracted in order to maintain independence. Subsequently, appraisers are typically restricted to only disclosing their findings to their clients, so as a homeowner, if you would like to obtain a copy of the appraisal document, you generally have to obtain it from your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, attaining and maintaining an appropriate 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 Keller Appraisal.

Appraisers can often have fiduciary obligations to third parties, such as homeowners, 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 only to those parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the order.

	Keller Appraisal has an established reputation for completing appraisals with the highest of ethics. Contact us today to learn more.

There are also ethical rules that have nothing to do with whom we share information. For example, appraisers must be able to produce their work files for a minimum of five years - at Keller Appraisal you can rest assured that we adhere to that rule.

When creating reports, we follow the highest ethical standards possible. Working on orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is not something we can consider. That is, we don't agree to do an appraisal report and collect payment on the contingency of the loan closing. There's an obvious conflict of interest if an appraiser can report an unsubstantiated value with the reward of getting paid more money! We just don't do it.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") clearly describes unethical behavior 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 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.

As soon as you order an appraisal from Keller Appraisal, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you deserve along with the honesty and integrity we're known for.