For honest and ethical appraisals, trust Kavanagh Appraisal Company

We have many obligations as appraisers, but our chief duty is to our clients. Generally, for a normal residential appraisal, the appraiser's client is the lender ordering the appraisal, and often the appraisal is ordered by a third party the lender has contracted in order to maintain independence. Certain matters pertaining to an assignment are to be discussed exclusively with the appraiser's client. So, as a homeowner, if you desire to obtain a copy of the appraisal document, you generally have to request it via your lender and not the appraiser.

Other obligations include accurate sums appropriate to the parameters of the report, reaching and keeping a respectable level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Here at Kavanagh Appraisal Company, we take these ethical responsibilities very to heart.

In some cases appraisers will have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, such as homeowners, buyers and sellers, or others. Those third parties normally are listed 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 things in the framework of the assignment.

	Kavanagh Appraisal Company has worked hard for its reputation for performing appraisals with the highest of ethics. Contact us today to learn more.

There are also ethical duties that have nothing to do with whom we share information. For example, appraisers must keep their work files for at least five years - at Kavanagh Appraisal Company you can rest assured that we abide by that rule.

We demand the highest professional integrity possible from ourselves. Working on assignments based on contingency fees is not something we can consider. That is, we are not able to 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 what amounts to a higher paycheck is unethical! We set ourselves to a higher standard.

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

With Kavanagh Appraisal Company, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, professional service.