Ashing's Appraisal Services provides honest and ethical appraisals for Muskogee County

Honesty and Integrity: Ashing's Appraisal Services

Appraising is, by and large, a long term career. Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever before. That's why it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can definitely be called a profession rather than a trade. In our field, as with any profession, we have a strict ethical code.

The appraiser's chief obligation 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 brought in to maintain independence. Appraisers have certain duties of privacy to their clients, plus strict rules and regulations to which we must adhere. So, as a homeowner, if you desire to obtain a copy of an appraisal report, you generally should obtain it through your lender.

Other obligations include accurate sums appropriate to the parameters of the assignment, acquiring and maintaining a respectable level of competency and education, and of course, the appraiser must behave in a professional manner. Here at Ashing's Appraisal Services, we take these ethical responsibilities very to heart.

Appraisers will sometimes need to consider the interests of third parties, such as homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Those third parties normally are defined in scope of the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is restricted to those parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the order.


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Appraisers also have rules outside of boundaries of with whom we share information For example, appraisers must keep their work files for at least five years - at Ashing's Appraisal Services you can rest assured that we abide by that rule.

While busy with an appraisal, we follow the highest ethical standards possible. Doing assignments based on contingency fees is never an option. That means 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 inflating a value to achieve a higher paycheck is unethical! We just don't do it.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice explicitly defines a violation in ethics 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 diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be at ease knowing we are going above and beyond to get you an accurate home or property value.

As soon as you order an appraisal from Ashing's Appraisal Services, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you expect along with the high ethical standards we're known for.