For honest and ethical appraisals, rely on Anglum Appraisal

We have a lot of obligations as appraisers, but above everything 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. Subsequently, appraisers are typically limited to only disclosing information to their clients, so as a homeowner, if you would like to review the appraisal document, you generally have to obtain it via your lender.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment parameters, reaching and maintaining a respectable level of competency and education, and of course, the appraiser must behave in a professional manner. Maintaining high ethics is what we do every day at Anglum Appraisal.

There are some scenarios in which appraisers will have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, such as homeowners, both sellers and buyers, or others. Those third parties normally are defined in the appraisal assignment itself. 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 job.

	Anglum Appraisal has an established reputation for performing competent and ethically superior appraisals. Contact us today to learn more.

Appraisers also have rules outside of boundaries of clients and others. For example, appraisers must keep their work files for at least five years - something else Anglum Appraisal makes a part of their standard routine.

We demand the highest ethical standards possible from ourselves. Accepting orders based on contingency fees is never an option. In other words, we don't agree to do an appraisal report and base our pay upon coming up with a particular value conclusion. There's an obvious conflict of interest if an appraiser can report a larger value with the reward of getting paid more money!

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") also states 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 follow these rules to the letter which means you can be assured we are doing everything we can to get you an accurate home or property value.

As soon as you engage Anglum Appraisal, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you deserve along with the honesty and integrity we're known for.