REALTOR^® A sold a light industrial property to Buyer B, a laundry operator. Several months later, Buyer B engaged REALTOR^® A’s services to appraise the property and to supply an appraisal report for use in possible merger with another laundry. REALTOR^® A carried out this appraisal assignment and submitted his report.

Buyer (now Client) B was dissatisfied with the report feeling that the valuation, in comparison with the market price that he had paid was excessively low. Client B then engaged an appraiser specializing in industrial property, and after receiving the second appraisal report, filed a complaint with the Board of REALTOR^® charging REALTOR^® A with incompetent and unprofessional service as an appraiser.

At the hearing, questioning established thatREALTOR^® A could cite no other industrial property appraisal he had made, and that his appraisal experience had been limited exclusively to residential property. The hearing also established that when the client proposed the appraisal, REALTOR^® A had readily accepted the assignment and that he had at no time disclosed the extent and limitations of this appraisal experience with his client.

QUESTION:  

How do you think the panel ruled?