WS Watson Inc. maintains the utmost professional ethics

An appraiser's main responsibility is to their client. Normally, 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. Thereon, appraisers are privy to a lot of data, and like an attorney, can only discuss many of these matters with their client. As a homeowner, if you desire to obtain a copy of an appraisal report, you normally have to get it from your lender.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the scope of the assignment, attaining and sustaining an appropriate level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Here at WS Watson Inc., we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

Appraisers may also have fiduciary obligations to third parties, such as homeowners, 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 knows, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the job.

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There are also ethical duties that have nothing to do with whom we share information For example, appraisers must be able to produce their work files for a minimum of five years - something else WS Watson Inc. takes very seriously.

We meet or exceed the industry standards and mandates set in place for professional behavior. We won't accept anything less from ourselves. Accepting assignments based on contingency fees is not something we can consider. That is, we don't agree to do an appraisal report and base our pay upon coming up with a particular value conclusion. Anyone should be able to see that fabricating a property's value to achieve essentially a higher fee is unethical! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice explicitly describes 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 diligently 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 WS Watson Inc., you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, professional service.