For honest and ethical appraisals, count on Westshore Appraisal

The appraiser's chief obligation is to their client. Typically, for a regular residential appraisal, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. Appraisers have certain duties of confidentiality to their clients, plus strict rules and regulations that must be followed. As a homeowner, if you would like to obtain a copy of an appraisal report, you normally should get it via your lender.

Other responsibilities include accurate calculations appropriate to the nature of the report, attaining and maintaining a certain level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Here at Westshore Appraisal, we take these ethical responsibilities very to heart.

Appraisers may often have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, such as homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Typically the third parties are clearly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary role is limited to those third parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the order.

	Westshore Appraisal has worked hard for its 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 at least five years - at Westshore Appraisal you can rest assured that we abide by that rule.

Westshore Appraisal holds itself to the industry standards and mandates set in place for professional behavior. We can't accept anything less from ourselves. Working on orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. In other words, we don'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 higher fee is unethical! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice clearly describes 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 follow these rules to the letter which means you can be at ease knowing we are going above and beyond to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

With Westshore Appraisal, you won't have any doubts that you're receiving 100 percent ethical, professional service.