Zink Appraisal Services provides honest and ethical appraisals for Cleveland County

Honesty and Integrity: Zink Appraisal Services

Appraising is a profession, and appraisers are professionals. Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have increased more than ever before. So it goes without question these days 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.

An appraiser's main responsibility is to their client. 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 hired in order to maintain independence. It's important to know that a lot of matters relating to an assignment are to be shared with the appraiser's client. So, as a homeowner, if you desire to review an appraisal report, you generally have to obtain it via your lender and not the appraiser.

Other obligations include accurate sums appropriate to the parameters of the assignment, attaining and maintaining a certain level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Maintaining high ethics and client confidentiality is standard operating procedure for us at Zink Appraisal Services.

Appraisers may also have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, such as homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Typically the third parties are explicitly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary role is limited to those parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the order.


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Appraisers also have standards outside of boundaries of clients and others. For example, appraisers must keep their work files for at least five years - something else Zink Appraisal Services makes a part of their standard routine.

When creating reports, we follow the highest ethical standards possible. Doing orders based on contingency fees is never an option. That means we can't agree to do an appraisal report and collect payment on the contingency of the loan closing. Anyone should be able to see that inflating a value to achieve a bigger paycheck is unethical! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice clearly describes 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" in addition to other situations We follow these rules to the letter which means you can be confident we are working hard to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

When you request an appraisal from Zink Appraisal Services, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you expect along with the business principles we're known for.