Honesty and Integrity: GIZZI APPRAISAL SERVICE INC.

We have quite a few responsibilities as appraisers, but our chief duty is to our clients. Most of the time, for a normal residential appraisal, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. It follows that appraisers have certain duties of privacy to their clients, plus many rules and regulations controlling with whom we share information. As a homeowner, if you desire to review the appraisal document, you generally should obtain it via your lender and not the appraiser.

Other obligations include accurate calculations appropriate to the nature of the assignment, reaching and keeping an adequate level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Maintaining high ethics and client confidentiality is standard operating procedure for us at GIZZI APPRAISAL SERVICE INC..

Appraisers may also have fiduciary obligations to third parties, such as homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Typically the third parties are specifically defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary duty is only to those third parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the order.

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Appraisers also have rules outside of boundaries of clients and others. For example, appraisers must be able to produce their work files for at least five years - at GIZZI APPRAISAL SERVICE INC. you can rest assured that we adhere to that rule.

When creating reports, we follow the highest ethical standards possible. Doing orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is not something we can consider. That means we don't agree to do an appraisal report and collect payment on the contingency of the loan closing. It should be obvious that inflating a value to achieve essentially a higher fee is unethical! We set ourselves to a higher standard.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") explicitly defines a violation in ethics 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 follow these rules to the letter which means you can be confident we are going above and beyond to objectively determine the home or property value.

With GIZZI APPRAISAL SERVICE INC., you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, professional service.