Cayenne Appraisal Group, LLC provides honest and ethical appraisals for Mecklenburg County

Cayenne Appraisal Group, LLC upholds the utmost professional ethics

Appraising is, by and large, a long term career. The rigors of becoming a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever in the past. So it goes without question in this day and age that real estate appraisal can certainly be called a profession rather than a trade. In our field, as with any profession, we have a strict ethical code.

We have a great deal of obligations as appraisers, but our chief duty is to our clients. Typically, for a normal residential appraisal, the lender (or an agent of the lender) places the order to the appraiser, becoming the appraiser's client. Consequently, appraisers have certain duties of confidentiality to their clients, plus strict rules and regulations controlling with whom we share information. So, as a homeowner, if you want to review the appraisal document, you normally should get it from your lender.

Other obligations include accurate figures appropriate to the nature of the report, reaching and maintaining an adequate level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Here at Cayenne Appraisal Group, LLC, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

Appraisers can sometimes have fiduciary obligations to third parties, such as homeowners, both sellers and buyers, or others. Those third parties normally are listed in the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility 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 job.


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Appraisers also have rules outside of boundaries of clients and others. For example, appraisers must backup their work files for at least five years - something else Cayenne Appraisal Group, LLC takes very seriously.

We meet or exceed the industry standards and mandates set in place for ethics. We refuse to accept anything less from ourselves. Doing assignments where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is not something we can consider. In other words, we don't agree to do an appraisal report and base our pay upon coming up with a particular value conclusion. There's certainly a conflict of interest if an appraiser can report a greater value with the reward of getting paid more money! We set ourselves to a higher standard.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice 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" in addition to other situations We diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be at ease knowing we are doing everything we can to get you an accurate home or property value.

As soon as you engage Cayenne Appraisal Group, LLC, we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you expect along with the high ethical standards we're known for.