ValPros maintains the utmost professional ethics

We have a great deal of responsibilities as appraisers, but our primary duty is to our clients. Typically, for a standard residential appraisal, 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. Consequently, 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 a copy of the appraisal document, you normally have to request it via your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, acquiring and keeping a certain level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Maintaining high ethics and client confidentiality is standard operating procedure for us at ValPros.

Appraisers will frequently need to consider the interests of third parties, such as homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Those third parties normally are listed in the appraisal assignment itself. 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 job.

	ValPros has worked hard for its track record for performing appraisals with the highest of ethics. To learn more, contact us.

There are also ethical rules that have nothing to do with clients and others. For example, appraisers must backup their work files for a minimum of five years - at ValPros you can rest assured that we adhere to that rule.

When working on an order, we follow the highest ethical standards possible. Working on orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is not something we can consider. In other words, we are not able to agree to do an appraisal report and collect the fee only if the loan closes. Anyone should be able to see that fabricating a property's value to achieve what amounts to a bigger fee is unethical! We set ourselves to a higher standard.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") clearly describes 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", or "the amount of a value opinion" in addition to other situations We diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be at ease knowing we are working hard to get you an accurate home or property value.

As soon as you engage ValPros, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you deserve along with the business principles we're known for.