For honest and ethical appraisals, rely on Savard Appraisal Services Inc.

We have quite a few obligations as appraisers, but our chief duty is to our clients. Typically, in residential practice, the appraiser's client is the lender ordering the appraisal, and often the appraisal is ordered by a third party the lender has brought in to maintain independence. Thereon, appraisers have certain duties of privacy to their clients, plus many rules and regulations to which we must adhere. So, as a homeowner, if you would like to review the appraisal document, you generally have to request it via your lender and not the appraiser.

Other obligations include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, attaining and maintaining an adequate level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Maintaining high ethics and client confidentiality is what we do every day at Savard Appraisal Services Inc..

Appraisers may sometimes have fiduciary obligations to third parties, such as homeowners, sellers and buyers, or others. Those third parties normally are spelled out 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 assignment.

	Savard Appraisal Services Inc. has worked hard for its reputation for providing competent and ethically superior appraisals. To learn more, contact us.

There are also ethical standards that have nothing to do with whom we share information. For example, appraisers must be able to produce their work files for at least five years - at Savard Appraisal Services Inc. you can rest assured that we adhere to that rule.

We demand the highest professional integrity possible from ourselves. Doing orders based on contingency fees is never an option. That is, we are not able to agree to do an appraisal report and collect payment on the contingency of the loan closing. Anyone should be able to see that inflating a value to achieve essentially a higher fee is unethical! This isn't how we operate.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice also states unethical behavior 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 at ease knowing we are working hard to get you an accurate home or property value.

When you request an appraisal from Savard Appraisal Services Inc., we'll make sure you're getting the professional service you expect along with the honesty and integrity we're known for.