Matrix Appraisal Group maintains the utmost professional ethics

We have a lot of obligations as appraisers, but our chief duty is to our clients. More often than not, for a typical 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 retained to maintain independence. 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 a copy of the appraisal document, you normally have to request it from your lender.

Other responsibilities include accurate calculations appropriate to the nature of the report, reaching and maintaining a particular level of competency and education, and of course, the appraiser must behave in a professional manner. Maintaining high ethics and client confidentiality is what we do every day at Matrix Appraisal Group.

Appraisers will regularly need to consider the interests of third parties, such as homeowners, buyers and sellers, or others. Typically the third parties are clearly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is limited to those parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the assignment.

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There are also ethical duties that have nothing to do with clients and others. For example, appraisers must be able to produce their work files for a minimum of five years - at Matrix Appraisal Group you can rest assured that we abide by that rule.

We require the highest professional integrity possible from ourselves. Accepting 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 fabricating a property's value to achieve what amounts to a higher fee is unethical!

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice clearly describes 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 at ease knowing we are going above and beyond to get you an accurate home or property value.

With Matrix Appraisal Group, you won't have any doubts that you're getting 100 percent ethical, honest service.