Abraham Appraisal upholds the highest professional ethics

We have many obligations as appraisers, but first and foremost we answer to our clients. Typically, in residential practice, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. It's important to know that certain matters relating to an assignment are to be discussed with the appraiser's client. As a homeowner, if you desire to obtain a copy of the appraisal document, you normally should request it from your lender and not the appraiser.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, reaching and sustaining a certain level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Maintaining high ethics is standard operating procedure for us at Abraham Appraisal.

Appraisers may often have fiduciary obligations to third parties, including homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Normally the third parties are explicitly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary role is restricted to those third parties who the appraiser knows, 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 store their work files for a minimum of five years - at Abraham Appraisal you can rest assured that we stick to that rule.

We require the highest ethical standards possible from ourselves. Working on orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. That is, we are not able to agree to do an appraisal report and get paid only if the loan closes. It should be obvious that fabricating a property's value to achieve essentially a higher fee is unethical! We just don't do it.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice clearly defines 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 diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be at ease knowing we are doing everything we can to get you an accurate home or property value.

With Abraham Appraisal, you won't have any doubts that you're getting 100 percent ethical, honest service.