For honest and ethical appraisals, trust Bruce W. Reyle Commercial and Residential Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants

We consider our our business a profession. The rigors of becoming a licensed appraiser have increased more than ever in the past. That's why 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 must follow strict ethical considerations.

For an appraiser the chief responsibility is to their client. Typically, for a standard residential appraisal, the appraiser's client is the lender ordering the appraisal. Appraisers have certain duties of confidentiality to their clients, and as a homeowner, if you require a copy of an appraisal report, you normally have to obtain it from your lender. Other responsibilities also include, accurate sums appropriate to the nature of the report, attaining and maintaining a respectable level of competency and education, and of course, the appraiser must behave in a professional manner. Here at Bruce W. Reyle Commercial and Residential Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

Bruce W. Reyle Commercial and Residential Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants provides honest and ethical appraisals for Fairfax City County

Bruce W. Reyle Commercial and Residential Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants has worked hard for its reputation for producing appraisals with the highest of ethics. Contact us today to learn more.

Appraisers will regularly need to consider the interests of third parties, including homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Normally the third parties are explicitly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary duty is only to those parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the assignment.

There are also ethical rules that have nothing to do with whom we share information. For example, appraisers must backup their work files for at least five years - something else Bruce W. Reyle Commercial and Residential Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants takes very seriously.

We require the highest professional integrity possible from ourselves. We don't do assignments on contingency fees. That is, we don't agree to do an appraisal report and collect the fee only if the loan closes. We don't do assignments on percentage fees. That is perhaps the appraisal industries most important rule, because it would invite appraisal fraud since increasing the estimate of the home would raise the their paycheck. We don't do that. Other improper practices may be established by state law or professional societies that the appraiser belongs.

The Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) also states 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," "the amount of a value opinion," in addition to other situations We follow these rules to the letter which means you can be at ease knowing we are working hard to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

With Bruce W. Reyle Commercial and Residential Real Estate Appraisers & Consultants, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, professional service.