For honest and ethical appraisals, count on Ocean Appraisals, LLC.

An appraiser's chief responsibility is to their client. Typically, 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 controlling with whom we share information. As a homeowner, if you would like to review the appraisal document, you generally have to request it through your lender and not the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment parameters, attaining and sustaining an appropriate level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Maintaining high ethics is just normal course of business for us at Ocean Appraisals, LLC..

Appraisers may regularly have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, including homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Generally the third parties are specifically defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary duty is restricted to those parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other things in the framework of the job.

	Ocean Appraisals, LLC. has an established reputation for providing appraisals with the highest of ethics. Contact us today to learn more.

Appraisers also have standards outside of boundaries of clients and others. For example, appraisers must keep their work files for a minimum of five years - at Ocean Appraisals, LLC. you can rest assured that we abide by that rule.

We require the highest professional integrity possible from ourselves. Accepting orders based on contingency fees is never an option. In other words, we don't agree to do an appraisal report and get paid only if the loan closes. There's certainly a 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 explicitly 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 diligently 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 Ocean Appraisals, LLC., you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, honest service.