Miller Appraisal Services, LLC provides honest and ethical appraisals for Clark County

Miller Appraisal Services, LLC upholds the highest professional ethics

We consider our business as a profession. The rigors of becoming a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever before. That's why it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can definitely be considered a profession rather than a trade. In our field, as with any profession, we have a strict ethical code.

An appraiser's primary obligation is to their client. Generally, 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 hired in order to maintain independence. 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 would like a copy of the appraisal document, you generally should obtain it from your lender.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, acquiring and maintaining an appropriate level of competency and education, and naturally, the appraiser must bear a professional demeanor. Here at Miller Appraisal Services, LLC, we take these ethical responsibilities very seriously.

In some cases appraisers will have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, such as homeowners, both buyers and sellers, or others. Those third parties normally are spelled out in scope of the appraisal assignment itself. An appraiser's fiduciary duty is restricted to those third parties who the appraiser is aware of, based on the scope of work or other written parameters of the assignment.


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There are also ethical standards that have nothing to do with clients and others. For example, appraisers must store their work files for a minimum of five years - at Miller Appraisal Services, LLC you can rest assured that we abide by that rule.

We meet or exceed the industry standards and rules set in place for ethics. We refuse to accept anything less from ourselves. Working on orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is not something we can consider. In other words, we can'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 larger value with the reward of getting paid more money!

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") also describes unethical behavior 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 follow these rules to the letter which means you can be confident we are doing everything we can to provide an unbiased determination of the home or property value.

With Miller Appraisal Services, LLC, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, professional service.