Stouffers Appraisal Service provides honest and ethical appraisals for Greene County

Stouffers Appraisal Service maintains the highest professional ethics

We consider what we do as a profession. The rigors of becoming a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever before. That's why it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can definitely be considered a profession rather than a trade. As with any profession we have a strict ethical code.

An appraiser's chief obligation is to their client. Generally, 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 contracted in order to maintain independence. Thereon, appraisers are privy to a lot of information, and like an attorney, can only discuss many of these matters with their client. As a homeowner, if you desire to obtain a copy of the appraisal document, you normally should get it via your lender and not the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include accurate figures appropriate to the parameters of the report, attaining and keeping an adequate level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Maintaining high ethics and client confidentiality is what we do every day at Stouffers Appraisal Service.

Appraisers will often be obligated to consider the interests of third parties, including homeowners, buyers and sellers, or others. Generally the third parties are clearly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is only to those third 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 rules outside of boundaries of with whom we share information For example, appraisers must backup their work files for at least five years - something else Stouffers Appraisal Service takes very seriously.

We only perform to the highest ethical standards possible. Accepting orders based on contingency fees is not something we can consider. That is, we can't agree to do an appraisal report and collect the fee only if the loan closes. Anyone should be able to see that inflating a value to achieve a bigger paycheck is unethical! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice explicitly 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" as well as other situations. We diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be confident we are going above and beyond to get you an accurate home or property value.

When you engage Stouffers Appraisal Service, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you expect along with the honesty and integrity we're known for.