Jackson Appraisal Services, LLC maintains the highest professional ethics

We have a great deal of obligations as appraisers, but our main duty is to our clients. Typically, 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 retained to maintain independence. Thereon, appraisers have certain duties of confidentiality to their clients, plus many rules and regulations controlling with whom we share information. As a homeowner, if you want a copy of the appraisal document, you normally should obtain it through your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, acquiring and maintaining an appropriate level of competency and education, and of course, the appraiser must behave in a professional manner. Here at Jackson Appraisal Services, LLC, we take these ethical responsibilities very to heart.

Appraisers can sometimes have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, including homeowners, both sellers and buyers, or others. Typically the third parties are clearly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is restricted to those third parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the job.

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There are also ethical rules that have nothing to do with whom we share information. For example, appraisers must keep their work files for at least five years - something else Jackson Appraisal Services, LLC makes a part of their standard routine.

We meet or exceed the industry standards and guidelines set in place for professional behavior. We refuse to accept anything less from ourselves. Working on assignments based on contingency fees is not something we can consider. In other words, we can't agree to do an appraisal report and collect payment on the contingency of the loan closing. It should be obvious that inflating a value to achieve what amounts to a bigger paycheck is unethical! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice also states 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 rest easy knowing we are working hard to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

With Jackson Appraisal Services, LLC, you won't have any doubts that you're getting 100 percent ethical, honest service.