Tidewater Home Appraisals, Inc. provides honest and ethical appraisals for Chesapeake City County

For honest and ethical appraisals, count on Tidewater Home Appraisals, Inc.

By and large, appraising is a long term career. The rigors of becoming a certified appraiser have become more difficult than ever before. That's why it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can definitely be called a profession rather than a trade. As with any profession, we have a strict ethical code.

An appraiser's main responsibility is to their client. Typically, for a standard residential appraisal, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. 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 want a copy of an appraisal report, you generally have to request it from your lender and not the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, acquiring and keeping an adequate level of competency and education, and of course, the appraiser must behave in a professional manner. Maintaining high ethics and client confidentiality is standard operating procedure for us at Tidewater Home Appraisals, Inc. We will always maintain client confidentiality while providing professional customer service.


	Tidewater Home Appraisals, Inc. has an established reputation for producing appraisals with the highest of ethics. Contact us today to learn more.

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 Tidewater Home Appraisals, Inc. you can rest assured that we stick to that rule.

We only perform to the highest ethical standards possible. Accepting orders based on contingency fees is never an option. In other words, 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 a higher fee is unethical! We set ourselves to a higher standard.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") clearly states 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 rest easy knowing we are working hard to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

With Tidewater Home Appraisals, Inc., you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, honest service.