Schmid, Jobson & Company, LLC provides honest and ethical appraisals for Chatham County

Schmid, Jobson & Company, LLC upholds the highest professional ethics

We consider our job as a profession. The rigors of becoming a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever in the past. That's why it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can definitely be considered a profession as opposed to a trade. In our field, as with any profession, we are bound by ethical considerations.

We have a lot of 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. Subsequently, appraisers are privy to a lot of information, and like an attorney, can only discuss many of these matters with their client. As a homeowner, if you desire to review an appraisal report, you generally should get it through your lender and not the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, acquiring and keeping a respectable level of competency and education, and of course, the appraiser must behave in a professional manner. Here at Schmid, Jobson & Company, LLC, we take these ethical responsibilities very to heart.

In some cases appraisers will have fiduciary responsibilities to third parties, including homeowners, buyers and sellers, or others. Generally the third parties are explicitly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is only 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 rules that have nothing to do with whom we share information. For example, appraisers must keep their work files for at least five years - at Schmid, Jobson & Company, LLC you can rest assured that we stick to that rule.

We only perform to the highest ethical standards possible. Doing assignments where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is never an option. That means 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 and then get paid more money!

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 Schmid, Jobson & Company, LLC, you can be assured of 100 percent ethical, professional service.