Ashley Real Estate provides honest and ethical appraisals for Bolivar County

Ashley Real Estate maintains the utmost professional ethics

We consider our job as a profession. Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have increased more than ever in the past. So it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can unquestionably be dubbed a profession as opposed to a trade. As with any profession we have a strict ethical code.

We have quite a few obligations as appraisers, but first and foremost we answer to our clients. Normally, 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. Certain matters pertaining to an assignment are to be shared exclusively with the appraiser's client. As a homeowner, if you desire to review an appraisal report, you generally have to request it through your lender.

Other obligations include accurate sums appropriate to the nature of the report, acquiring and sustaining a respectable 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 Ashley Real Estate.

In some cases appraisers will have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, such as homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Generally the third parties are specifically defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary duty is only to those parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the job.


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Appraisers also have duties outside of boundaries of clients and others. For example, appraisers must backup their work files for at least five years - something else Ashley Real Estate takes very seriously.

We only perform to the highest ethical standards possible. Accepting assignments where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. In other words, we are not able to 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 property's value to achieve a bigger paycheck is unethical! We set ourselves to a higher standard.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") 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 confident we are doing everything we can to get you an accurate home or property value.

When you engage Ashley Real Estate, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you expect along with the honesty and integrity we're known for.