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Automobile appraisals in Arizona for donations, insurance claims, estate tax, and divorce, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises sedans, trucks, SUVs, classic cars, and motorcycles across Arizona, including Phoenix, Tucson, and Scottsdale.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT AUTO APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, ARIZONA COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
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Owner & CEO
Joe founded AppraiseItNow to make a certified, USPAP-compliant appraisal as simple to order as anything else online. A former Bain & Company strategy consultant, Joe leads the entire team and specializes in strategy, growth, and the firm's tech capabilities.
Machinery & Equipment Appraiser
Third-generation auctioneer and CAGA Certified Appraiser with more than 20 years valuing machinery, equipment, vehicles, business assets, and estates for banks, attorneys, and trustees across the Carolinas.
Vehicle Appraiser
CAGA Certified Appraiser since 2014, covering vehicles, boats, equipment, fine art, and collectibles. A classic-car restoration background informs her vehicle work, with reports prepared for insurance, divorce, and charitable contributions.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
Certified Appraisers Guild of AmericaCertified Appraiser
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsTwo Arizona files, reduced to the city, the vehicle and the standard of value. No owner, no figure and no identifying detail appears here, and the working papers stay in the reports where they belong.
Loan collateral
Kenworth sleeper tractors, utility trailers and warehouse lifts counted and valued together for a lender looking at the whole operation.
Charitable donation
A class B camper van in near new condition, given away by its owner and valued for the deduction claimed on the gift.
AppraiseItNow appraises cars, trucks, motorcycles, motorhomes, trailers and working fleets in Arizona for insurance claims, charitable deductions, probate, divorce and lending. A published guide figure opens the analysis; sales of the same specification and condition, close enough in time to mean something, are what settle it. Where a vehicle has been modified, the work is priced on what buyers of such vehicles actually pay for it, which is seldom what it cost to have done.
Total loss and damage
When a carrier and an owner disagree, the question is the value immediately before the loss, in this market, for a vehicle in that condition. That is the figure the report supports, with the sales it rests on named rather than summarised.
Estates and divorce
A probate inventory and a decree both need a number that can be defended later, for the work truck in the yard as much as for the collector car under a cover. Arizona is a community property state, so the same figure often has to serve both halves of a division.
Lending and fleets
Tractors, trailers and yard equipment are valued unit by unit and then as a working group, because a fleet seldom sells the way its separate units would. Lenders get both numbers and the reasoning between them.
Three Arizona rules decide what a vehicle is worth on paper, when it stops being worth repairing, and whether it can change hands without probate.
The state's own figure
16.25%
comes off the tax value of an Arizona vehicle every year
For the first twelve months after a vehicle is registered, Arizona values it at sixty percent of the manufacturer's base retail price for vehicle license tax, and in each following twelve month period that value falls by 16.25 percent of what it was before, with a floor of ten dollars a year in tax. The figure is arithmetic applied to a sticker price. It takes no account of condition, of mileage, of equipment fitted later or of what the same vehicle brings today, which is why insurers, courts and the Internal Revenue Service all ask for the other number.
Total loss
Uneconomical to repair
is the whole Arizona test, with no percentage in it
A salvage vehicle in Arizona is one that has been stolen, wrecked, destroyed, flood or water damaged, or otherwise damaged to the extent that the owner, a leasing company, a financial institution or an insurance company considers it uneconomical to repair. No percentage of value appears anywhere in the definition, so the judgement rests on what the vehicle was worth set against what the repair would cost. An insurer that takes a vehicle in a total loss settlement has thirty days from the assignment of the title to apply for a salvage, stolen or nonrepairable certificate, and an owner who keeps the vehicle must obtain that title before taking the settlement.
Estates
$200,000
of personal property moves a car without probate
Thirty days after a death, a successor may collect the decedent's tangible personal property on an affidavit stating that no personal representative has been appointed and that all the personal property in the estate, wherever it sits and less liens and encumbrances, was worth no more than $200,000 as of the date of death. The motor vehicle division transfers title on that affidavit. Everything the decedent owned counts toward the ceiling, so what the vehicles are worth is part of what decides whether the estate stays out of court.
What Arizona clients say we are known for
Across 22 published Arizona appraisal reviews, every one from a client who paid AppraiseItNow for an appraisal, the three things they raise most often are how quickly we answer, how much research is visible in the report, and that they would hire us again.
My daughter had purchased a very collectible 2003 Mustang Cobra terminator just 3 months before her accident with 50,000 miles on it, for 30,000 dollars. We were experiencing some very heavy rains and she hydroplaned and smashed into a guard rail and totaled her car. The insurance company offered her $18,000, but we told them that was an insult to this car. We kept going round and round with them but they were not budging. Finally we googled an independent appraiser and found AppraiseItNow! Their appraised value was 26,462. They negotiated with the insurance for us and we ended up with 25,900. They were awesome and helped us get much closer to the appropriate value of the Cobra. Absolutely worth the price we paid. Highly recommended!
Car Appraisal for Insurance Claim
My wife and I purchased a property that included a double-wide mobile home, which we decided to donate to a local charitable organization that provides housing for low-income families. This type of donation required a formal appraisal to qualify for an IRS tax deduction, so we reached out to Appraise It Now. From the start, they were able to clearly answer all of our questions about both the appraisal process and the tax deduction requirements. We provided photos and additional details, and within 10 days we received a thorough, well-prepared report that included all the necessary IRS forms. I’m giving Appraise It Now a five-star review because communication was excellent throughout the entire process. Everyone I spoke with was helpful, friendly, and professional, and emails were always answered quickly. We were completely satisfied with the experience. Thank you!
Mobile Home Appraisal for Charitable Donation
These guys were phenomenal. Joe was very responsive and gave clear instructions on how to submit my information for the appraisal, which he completed in a very quick timeframe. The appraisal itself was extremely detailed and included a thorough explanation of how they arrived at the value. It came with extensive documentation, and it’s clear they did a significant amount of research. They were also very responsive through text and email and always available to answer any questions. I had them appraise my fifth-wheel RV for resale, and I highly recommend their services. I will definitely use them again.
Recreational Vehicle Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
They appraised an older trailer for me that required a bonded title. They were great with communication and it only took about 2 weeks to get a very nice detailed appraisal report, which finding comps for older trailers is not straight forward. Highly recommend!
Trailer Appraisal for Title Bond
Friendly, speedy service with fair value.
Auto Appraisal for Probate
We were amazed at their professionalism in working with us and the quality of the final appraisal report. And all for thousands less than other appraisers.
Tractor Appraisal for Charitable Donation
Given the USPAP-compliant nature of AppraiseItNow’s appraisal reports, we prepare our deliverables for major legal, tax, and financial reporting purposes for individual and commercial clients.
Popular uses of our appraisal reports include:
We start with Kelley Blue Book and J.D. Power (NADA) baselines for the year, make, model, and condition, then reconcile against three to five recent comparable sales from dealer transactions, marketplaces, and auction data. Condition, mileage, title status, and documented service history drive the adjustments.
No. A trade-in figure is what a dealer is prepared to pay to take the motorcycle in, and it sits below what the same bike brings in a private sale because the dealer still has to recondition it, carry it and sell it again. Using that number for a tax filing, a divorce settlement or a dispute understates what the motorcycle is worth in the market the filing actually cares about.
Salvage or branded titles, missing titles, and evidence of frame damage. These issues can push value well below guide ranges regardless of cosmetic condition, so the title status on record and the VIN behind it are part of the file rather than a value built from photographs alone.
That is the court's call, but the value is community property math. Motorcycles acquired during marriage are generally community property subject to substantially equal division, so an appraisal as of the court's valuation date determines the offset the keeping spouse owes.
