Linn Appraisals provides honest and ethical appraisals for Montgomery County

For honest and ethical appraisals, rely on Linn Appraisals

Generally, appraising is a long term career. Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have increased more than ever before. So it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can certainly be called a profession as opposed to a trade. As with any profession we must follow strict ethical considerations.

The appraiser's main responsibility is to their client. Typically, for a regular residential appraisal, 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 to which we must adhere. So, as a homeowner, if you desire to review an appraisal report, you generally have to request it through your lender and not the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include accurate calculations appropriate to the nature of the report, acquiring and sustaining a respectable level of competency and education, and of course, the appraiser must behave in a professional manner. Here at Linn Appraisals, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

Appraisers will often need to consider the interests of third parties, such as homeowners, buyers and sellers, or others. Those third parties normally are defined in scope of the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is limited to those parties who the appraiser knows, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the order.

Linn Appraisals has an established track record for performing competent and ethically superior appraisals. To learn more, contact us.


There are also ethical standards 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 - at Linn Appraisals you can rest assured that we stick to that rule.

We only perform to the highest ethical standards possible. Doing orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. That is, we don't agree to do an appraisal report and base our pay upon coming up with a particular value conclusion. It should be apparent to anyone that inflating a value to achieve essentially a higher fee is unethical! We just don't do it.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice also 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" as well as other situations. We diligently follow these rules to the letter which means you can be confident we are going above and beyond to get you an accurate home or property value.

With Linn Appraisals, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, professional service.