For honest and ethical appraisals, count on Tarter Realty, Auction, & Appraisal Company

We have a great deal of obligations as appraisers, but our main duty is 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. Certain elements relating to an assignment are to be shared with the appraiser's client. As a homeowner, if you desire a copy of an appraisal report, you generally should obtain it via your lender and not the appraiser.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment parameters, attaining and maintaining an adequate level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Maintaining high ethics and client confidentiality is what we do every day at Tarter Realty, Auction, & Appraisal Company.

In some cases appraisers will have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, such as homeowners, buyers and sellers, or others. Those third parties normally are listed in scope of the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary role is restricted to those parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the assignment.

	Tarter Realty, Auction, & Appraisal Company has an established reputation for completing appraisals with the highest of ethics. Contact us today to learn more.

Appraisers also have rules outside of boundaries of clients and others. For example, appraisers must be able to produce their work files for a minimum of five years - something else Tarter Realty, Auction, & Appraisal Company makes a part of their standard routine.

We meet or exceed the industry standards and mandates set in place for professional behavior. We can't accept anything less from ourselves. Working on assignments where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. That means we can't agree to do an appraisal report and collect payment on the contingency of the loan closing. It should be apparent to anyone that fabricating a home's value to achieve what amounts to a higher paycheck is unethical! We set ourselves to a higher standard.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice explicitly describes 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" as well as other situations. We follow these rules to the letter which means you can rest easy knowing we are working hard to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

As soon as you order an appraisal from Tarter Realty, Auction, & Appraisal Company, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you deserve along with the principles we're known for.