Sizemore Appraisal Services, LLC provides honest and ethical appraisals for Kaufman County

Sizemore Appraisal Services, LLC upholds the utmost professional ethics

Appraising is a profession, and appraisers are professionals. Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever before. So it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can certainly be called a profession as opposed to a trade. As with any profession we have a strict ethical code.

We have many responsibilities as appraisers, but above everything we answer to our clients. Most of the time, 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. 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 would like a copy of an appraisal report, you normally have to obtain it from your lender.

Other obligations include accurate figures appropriate to the parameters of the report, reaching and maintaining 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 Sizemore Appraisal Services, LLC.

In some cases appraisers will have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, including homeowners, both sellers and buyers, or others. Generally the third parties are specifically defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is restricted to those parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the assignment.


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Appraisers also have rules outside of boundaries of with whom we share information For example, appraisers must keep their work files for at least five years - at Sizemore Appraisal Services, LLC you can rest assured that we abide by that rule.

We meet or exceed the industry standards and rules set in place for ethics. We won't accept anything less from ourselves. Doing assignments based on contingency fees is never an option. That means we don't agree to do an appraisal report and collect the fee only if the loan closes. There's an obvious conflict of interest if an appraiser can report a larger value with the reward of getting paid more money!

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice also states 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" as well as other situations. We diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be assured we are working hard to objectively determine the home or property value.

With Sizemore Appraisal Services, LLC, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, honest service.