River to Sea Appraisals, LLC. maintains the utmost professional ethics

We have many obligations as appraisers, but first and foremost we answer to our clients. Normally, 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. 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 review the appraisal document, you generally should obtain it from your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, attaining and maintaining a particular level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Here at River to Sea Appraisals, LLC. , we take these ethical responsibilities very to heart.

Appraisers will regularly be obligated to consider the interests of third parties, including homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Those third parties normally are listed in the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is restricted to those third parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the order.

	River to Sea Appraisals, LLC. has worked hard for its track record for performing appraisals with the highest of ethics. To learn more, contact us.

There are also ethical rules that have nothing to do with whom we share information. For example, appraisers must keep their work files for a minimum of five years - something else River to Sea Appraisals, LLC. takes very seriously.

We require the highest ethical standards possible from ourselves. Accepting assignments based on contingency fees is never an option. That means we don't agree to do an appraisal report and collect payment on the contingency of the loan closing. Anyone should be able to see that fabricating a home's value to achieve a higher paycheck is unethical! We set ourselves to a higher standard.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice also describes unethical behavior 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 diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be confident we are going above and beyond to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

With River to Sea Appraisals, LLC. , you won't have any doubts that you're receiving 100 percent ethical, professional service.