Metric Appraisals, LLC upholds the highest professional ethics

The appraiser's main responsibility is to their client. Most of the time, 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 hired in order to maintain independence. Thereon, appraisers are typically limited to only disclosing their findings to their clients, so as a homeowner, if you want to review the appraisal document, you generally should obtain it through your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other obligations include accurate calculations appropriate to the parameters of the report, acquiring and sustaining an appropriate 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 Metric Appraisals, LLC.

Appraisers will frequently need to consider the interests of third parties, including homeowners, buyers and sellers, or others. Those third parties normally are defined in scope of the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary role is restricted to those parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the job.

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Appraisers also have duties outside of boundaries of clients and others. For example, appraisers must keep their work files for at least five years - at Metric Appraisals, LLC you can rest assured that we stick to that rule.

We require the highest ethical standards possible from ourselves. Working on assignments based on contingency fees is never an option. In other words, we can't agree to do an appraisal report and collect payment on the contingency of the loan closing. Anyone should be able to see that fabricating a property's value to achieve essentially a bigger fee is unethical!

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") also states a violation in ethics 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 rest easy knowing we are doing everything we can to objectively determine the home or property value.

With Metric Appraisals, LLC, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, honest service.