Titan Appraisals, LLC. provides honest and ethical appraisals for Mercer County

Titan Appraisals, LLC. maintains the highest professional ethics

Generally, appraising is a long term career. The rigors of becoming a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever before. So it goes without question in this day and age that real estate appraisal can unquestionably be dubbed a profession rather than a trade. As with any profession we must follow strict ethical considerations.

We have many responsibilities as appraisers, but our chief duty is to our clients. Generally, 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 brought in to maintain independence. It's important to know that a lot of details relating to an assignment are to be shared exclusively with the appraiser's client. As a homeowner, if you want a copy of an appraisal report, you normally have to obtain it through your lender.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment parameters, acquiring and maintaining a respectable level of competency and education, and of course, the appraiser must behave in a professional manner. Maintaining high ethics is just normal course of business for us at Titan Appraisals, LLC..

Appraisers can also have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, such as 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 third parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the order.


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Appraisers also have rules outside of boundaries of clients and others. For example, appraisers must keep their work files for a minimum of five years - at Titan Appraisals, LLC. you can rest assured that we adhere to that rule.

We only perform to the highest ethical standards possible. Doing 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! We just don't do it.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") explicitly 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 follow these rules to the letter which means you can be confident we are going above and beyond to get you an accurate home or property value.

With Titan Appraisals, LLC., you won't have any doubts that you're receiving 100 percent ethical, honest service.