Konza Appraisals, LLC provides honest and ethical appraisals for Riley County

Konza Appraisals, LLC upholds the utmost professional ethics

We consider what we do as a profession. Requirements to become a licensed appraiser have become more difficult than ever before. That's why it goes without question these days that real estate appraisal can unquestionably be called a profession as opposed to a trade. In our field, as with any profession, we have a strict ethical code.

We have many responsibilities as appraisers, but first and foremost we answer to our clients. Generally, for a regular residential appraisal, the appraiser's client is the lender ordering the appraisal, and often the appraisal is ordered by a third party the lender has contracted in order to maintain independence. Subsequently, appraisers are typically restricted to only disclosing information to their clients, so as a homeowner, if you desire to review an appraisal report, you normally have to obtain it through your lender instead of the appraiser.

Other responsibilities include numerical accuracy depending on the assignment's nature, reaching and maintaining a particular level of competency and education, and the appraiser must conduct him or herself as a professional. Maintaining high ethics is standard operating procedure for us at Konza Appraisals, LLC.

Appraisers will sometimes be obligated to consider the interests of third parties, including homeowners, buyers and sellers, or others. Normally the third parties are explicitly defined in the appraisal report. An appraiser's fiduciary responsibility is limited to those third parties who the appraiser knows, 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 whom we share information. For example, appraisers must keep their work files for a minimum of five years - something else Konza Appraisals, LLC diligently adheres to.

We only perform to the highest ethical standards possible. Doing orders where our fee is dependent on our value conclusion is not something we can consider. That means we are not able to agree to do an appraisal report and get paid only if the loan closes. It should be apparent to anyone that inflating a value to achieve what amounts to a bigger fee is unethical! We just don't do it.

Finally, the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (or simply "USPAP") also defines 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 assured we are working hard to get you an accurate home or property value.

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