For honest and ethical appraisals, rely on Catron Appraisals

We have many obligations as appraisers, but first and foremost we answer to our clients. Generally, for a regular residential appraisal, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. It follows that 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 obtain a copy of the appraisal document, you normally have to request it through your lender.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, acquiring and sustaining an appropriate level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Maintaining high ethics is just normal course of business for us at Catron Appraisals.

Appraisers may often have fiduciary obligations to third parties, such as homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Those third parties normally are listed in the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary role is restricted to those third parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the order.

	Catron Appraisals has worked hard for its reputation for providing competent and ethically superior appraisals. Contact us today to learn more.

There are also ethical rules that have nothing to do with whom we share information. For example, appraisers must store their work files for a minimum of five years - something else Catron Appraisals diligently adheres to.

We meet or exceed the industry standards and mandates set in place for ethics. We can't accept anything less from ourselves. Accepting assignments where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is not something we can consider. That is, we can't agree to do an appraisal report and base our pay upon coming up with a particular value conclusion. There's an obvious conflict of interest if an appraiser can report an unsubstantiated value and then get paid more money! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") explicitly defines unethical behavior 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 working hard to get you an accurate home or property value.

As soon as you engage Catron Appraisals, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you expect along with the principles we're known for.