Klier Valuations provides honest and ethical appraisals for Travis County

For honest and ethical appraisals, trust Klier Valuations

We consider what we do as a profession. The rigors of becoming a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever before. That's why it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can certainly be dubbed a profession rather than a trade. As with any profession we are bound by an ethical code.

The appraiser's main responsibility is to their client. Normally, in residential practice, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. Thereon, appraisers have certain duties of confidentiality to their clients, plus strict rules and regulations that must be followed. So, as a homeowner, if you want a copy of the appraisal document, you generally have to obtain it via your lender and not the appraiser.

Other obligations include accurate sums appropriate to the nature of the report, acquiring and keeping a certain level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Here at Klier Valuations, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

Appraisers will frequently be obligated to consider the interests of third parties, such as homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Those third parties normally are defined in scope of the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary role is restricted to those parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the job.


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There are also ethical rules that have nothing to do with clients and others. For example, appraisers must be able to produce their work files for at least five years - something else Klier Valuations takes very seriously.

We meet or exceed the industry standards and guidelines set in place for ethics. We can't accept anything less from ourselves. Working on orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is not something we can consider. That is, we are not able to agree to do an appraisal report and base our pay upon coming up with a particular value conclusion. There's a definite conflict of interest if an appraiser can report a larger value and then get paid more money!

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") clearly 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" as well as other situations. We diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be assured we are doing everything we can to get you an accurate home or property value.

With Klier Valuations, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, honest service.