Advanced Appraisal Services provides honest and ethical appraisals for Alpine County

Honesty and Integrity: Advanced Appraisal Services

By and large, appraising is a long term career. Requirements to become 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 considered a profession as opposed to a trade. In our field, as with any profession, we have a strict ethical code.

We have a great deal of responsibilities as appraisers, but first and foremost we answer to our clients. Typically, in residential practice, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. Thereon, appraisers are typically limited to only disclosing information to their clients, so as a homeowner, if you desire a copy of an appraisal report, you normally should obtain it from your lender.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment parameters, acquiring and sustaining an appropriate level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Here at Advanced Appraisal Services, we take these ethical responsibilities very to heart.

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

Advanced Appraisal Services has an established track record for providing competent and ethically superior appraisals. To learn more, contact us.


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 - something else Advanced Appraisal Services makes a part of their standard routine.

Advanced Appraisal Services holds itself to the industry standards and rules set in place for professional behavior. We can't accept anything less from ourselves. Working on orders based on contingency fees is not something we can consider. In other words, we are not able to agree to do an appraisal report and base our pay upon coming up with a particular value conclusion. Anyone should be able to see that inflating a value to achieve essentially a bigger fee is unethical!

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice also defines 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" as well as other situations. We diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can rest easy knowing we are doing everything we can to objectively determine the home or property value.

With Advanced Appraisal Services, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, professional service.