Ascend Valuation Services, LLC provides honest and ethical appraisals for Dallas County

Honesty and Integrity: Ascend Valuation Services, LLC

Appraising is a profession, and appraisers are professionals. Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever before. That's why it goes without question in this day and age that real estate appraisal can unquestionably be dubbed a profession rather than a trade. In our field, as with any profession, we must follow strict ethical considerations.

We have a lot of responsibilities as appraisers, but our main duty is to our clients. Most of the time, for a standard 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 contracted in order to maintain independence. Certain details relating to an assignment are to be discussed with the appraiser's client. So, as a homeowner, if you would like to obtain a copy of an appraisal report, you normally have to obtain it from your lender.

Other responsibilities include accurate calculations appropriate to the scope of the assignment, reaching and maintaining an adequate level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Here at Ascend Valuation Services, LLC, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

Appraisers will sometimes be obligated to consider the interests of third parties, including homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Normally the third parties are specifically defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary role is limited 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.


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Appraisers also have standards outside of boundaries of with whom we share information For example, appraisers must store their work files for a minimum of five years - at Ascend Valuation Services, LLC you can rest assured that we adhere to that rule.

We only perform to the highest ethical standards possible. Doing orders based on contingency fees is not something we can consider. In other words, we don't agree to do an appraisal report and collect the fee only if the loan closes. There's certainly a conflict of interest if an appraiser can report an unsubstantiated 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") explicitly describes 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 be at ease knowing we are going above and beyond to objectively determine the home or property value.

With Ascend Valuation Services, LLC, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, professional service.