For honest and ethical appraisals, count on Deer Creek Appraisals

The appraiser's primary obligation is to their client. Normally, in residential practice, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. It follows that appraisers are typically restricted to only disclosing their findings to their clients, so as a homeowner, if you desire to review the appraisal document, you generally should obtain it via your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include accurate calculations appropriate to the nature of the report, acquiring and sustaining a respectable level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Maintaining high ethics is standard operating procedure for us at Deer Creek Appraisals.

There are some scenarios in which appraisers will have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, such as homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Typically the third parties are explicitly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is restricted to those third parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the job.

	Deer Creek Appraisals has worked hard for its track record for providing appraisals with the highest of ethics. To learn more, contact us.

Appraisers also have duties outside of boundaries of with whom we share information For example, appraisers must be able to produce their work files for at least five years - something else Deer Creek Appraisals takes very seriously.

Deer Creek Appraisals holds itself to the industry standards and guidelines set in place for ethics. We refuse to accept anything less from ourselves. Accepting orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. In other words, we can't agree to do an appraisal report and base our pay upon coming up with a particular value conclusion. It should be obvious that inflating a value to achieve essentially a bigger fee is unethical!

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") also describes 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" as well as other situations. We follow these rules to the letter which means you can be assured we are working hard to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

When you engage Deer Creek Appraisals, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you expect along with the honesty and integrity we're known for.