For honest and ethical appraisals, trust The Warren Agency

We have a lot of obligations as appraisers, but above everything we answer to our clients. Generally, for a normal residential appraisal, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. It's important to know that certain elements relating to an assignment are to be discussed exclusively with the appraiser's client. So, as a homeowner, if you want a copy of an appraisal report, you normally have to get it through your lender.

Other obligations include accurate calculations appropriate to the scope of the report, acquiring and keeping a certain level of competency and education, and of course, the appraiser must behave in a professional manner. Here at The Warren Agency, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

Appraisers can regularly have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, including homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Those third parties normally are defined in scope of the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary role is only to those third parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the assignment.

	The Warren Agency has an established reputation for producing competent and ethically superior appraisals. 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 a minimum of five years - something else The Warren Agency 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. Doing 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 the fee only if the loan closes. There's a definite conflict of interest if an appraiser can report a greater value with the reward of getting paid more money! We just don't do it.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice explicitly defines 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 diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be confident we are working hard to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

With The Warren Agency, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, honest service.