Tony Myers Appraisals provides honest and ethical appraisals for Moore County

Honesty and Integrity: Tony Myers Appraisals

We consider our job as a profession. The rigors of becoming a licensed appraiser have increased more than ever in the past. So it goes without question in this day and age that real estate appraisal can certainly be considered a profession rather than a trade. In our field, as with any profession, we must follow strict ethical considerations.

The appraiser's main obligation is to their client. More often than not, 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. Thereon, appraisers have certain duties of privacy to their clients, plus strict rules and regulations that must be followed. So, as a homeowner, if you desire to review an appraisal report, you normally should get it from your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment parameters, acquiring and keeping an adequate level of competency and education, and of course, the appraiser must behave in a professional manner. Here at Tony Myers Appraisals, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

Appraisers will often be required to consider the interests of third parties, such as homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Those third parties normally are listed in the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary duty is only to those parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the assignment.


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There are also ethical rules that have nothing to do with clients and others. For example, appraisers must backup their work files for at least five years - at Tony Myers Appraisals you can rest assured that we adhere to that rule.

We only perform to the highest ethical standards possible. Accepting assignments where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is not something we can consider. That is, we don't agree to do an appraisal report and collect the fee only if the loan closes. It should be obvious that inflating a value to achieve what amounts to a bigger fee is unethical! This isn't how we operate.

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

With Tony Myers Appraisals, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, honest service.