Currier Appraisal Services LLC provides honest and ethical appraisals for Travis County

Currier Appraisal Services LLC maintains the highest professional ethics

Appraising is generally a long term career. 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 definitely be called a profession rather than a trade. In our field, as with any profession, we have a strict ethical code.

We have quite a few obligations as appraisers, but our main duty is to our clients. Most of the time, for a typical residential appraisal, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. It follows that appraisers are typically restricted to only disclosing information to their clients, so as a homeowner, if you would like to review the appraisal document, you normally should request it via your lender.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, reaching and keeping a particular level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Maintaining high ethics and client confidentiality is just normal course of business for us at Currier Appraisal Services LLC.

Appraisers may also have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, including homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Generally the third parties are explicitly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary role is only to those third parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the job.


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There are also ethical duties that have nothing to do with clients and others. For example, appraisers must backup their work files for at least five years - something else Currier Appraisal Services LLC diligently adheres to.

When working on an assignment, we follow the highest ethical standards possible. Accepting orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. That is, 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 inflating a value to achieve a bigger paycheck is unethical!

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice also describes 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" in addition to other situations We follow these rules to the letter which means you can be confident we are doing everything we can to get you an accurate home or property value.

As soon as you engage Currier Appraisal Services LLC, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you deserve along with the business principles we're known for.