Hillman Appraisal Services provides honest and ethical appraisals for Pinal County

Hillman Appraisal Services upholds the highest professional ethics

We think of our job as a profession. Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have increased more than ever before. That's why it goes without question in this day and age that real estate appraisal can definitely be dubbed a profession as opposed to a trade. As with any profession we have a strict ethical code.

An appraiser's main responsibility is to their client. More often than not, in residential practice, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. Certain details relating to an assignment are to be shared exclusively with the appraiser's client. As a homeowner, if you desire to review an appraisal report, you generally have to request it from your lender and not the appraiser.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, 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 just normal course of business for us at Hillman Appraisal Services.

There are some scenarios in which appraisers will have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, including homeowners, both sellers and buyers, or others. Those third parties normally are spelled out in scope of 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 assignment.


	Hillman Appraisal Services has an established track record for completing appraisals with the highest of ethics. To learn more, contact us.

Appraisers also have standards outside of boundaries of clients and others. For example, appraisers must backup their work files for a minimum of five years - something else Hillman Appraisal Services takes very seriously.

Hillman Appraisal Services holds itself to the industry standards and rules set in place for ethics. We refuse to accept anything less from ourselves. Doing orders based on contingency fees is never an option. That is, we are not able to agree to do an appraisal report and collect payment on the contingency of the loan closing. There's a definite conflict of interest if an appraiser can report a larger value with the reward of getting paid more money! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") clearly defines 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 follow these rules to the letter which means you can rest easy knowing we are working hard to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

With Hillman Appraisal Services, you won't have any doubts that you're receiving 100 percent ethical, professional service.