Evans Appraisal Services provides honest and ethical appraisals for Berks County

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Appraising is a profession, and appraisers are professionals. Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever before. So it goes without question in this day and age that real estate appraisal can certainly be dubbed a profession as opposed to a trade. As with any profession we are bound by an ethical code.

An appraiser's chief obligation is to their client. Most of the time, for a normal 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 to which we must adhere. So, as a homeowner, if you would like to obtain a copy of an appraisal report, you generally have to get it from your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include accurate sums appropriate to the scope of the assignment, attaining and keeping a particular level of competency and education, and of course, the appraiser must behave in a professional manner. Here at Evans Appraisal Services, we take these ethical responsibilities very to heart.

Appraisers will regularly be required to consider the interests of third parties, including homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Typically the third parties are clearly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary role is limited to those parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the order.


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Appraisers also have rules outside of boundaries of clients and others. For example, appraisers must backup their work files for a minimum of five years - at Evans Appraisal Services you can rest assured that we stick to that rule.

Evans Appraisal Services holds itself to the industry standards and mandates set in place for ethics. We won't accept anything less from ourselves. Working on orders based on contingency fees is not something we can consider. That means we can't agree to do an appraisal report and get paid only if the loan closes. There's an obvious conflict of interest if an appraiser can report an unsubstantiated value and then get paid more money!

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") clearly 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" in addition to other situations We diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can rest easy knowing we are doing everything we can to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

With Evans Appraisal Services, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, honest service.