Taylor Sturgis maintains the highest professional ethics

We have a lot of responsibilities as appraisers, but our primary duty is to our clients. More often than not, 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 retained 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 want a copy of the appraisal document, you generally should request it via your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, reaching and keeping an adequate level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Here at Taylor Sturgis, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

There are some scenarios in which appraisers will have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, including homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Those third parties normally are listed in the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is only to those third parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the job.

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Appraisers also have duties outside of boundaries of with whom we share information For example, appraisers must store their work files for at least five years - at Taylor Sturgis you can rest assured that we adhere to that rule.

When creating reports, we follow the highest ethical standards possible. Doing assignments where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. That is, we are not able to agree to do an appraisal report and base our pay upon coming up with a particular value conclusion. There's certainly a conflict of interest if an appraiser can report a larger value and then get paid more money! This isn't how we operate.

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

With Taylor Sturgis, you won't have any doubts that you're getting 100 percent ethical, honest service.