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DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT TOOL APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, CPAS, AND FINANCIAL ADVISORS.
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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 standardsAppraiseItNow provides fair market value appraisals for tools across a wide range of commercial, industrial, and professional contexts. Common triggers include IRS Form 8283 for noncash charitable contributions exceeding $5,000, estate tax filings on Form 706, corporate dissolutions, and buy-sell agreements where portable tool assets must be valued independently of installation. Our equipment valuation practice applies the sales comparison approach using actual completed transactions in the highest-volume pre-owned markets, not asking prices or dealer estimates, ensuring the resulting opinion holds up to IRS scrutiny and third-party review.
We deliver appraisals both online and onsite throughout the United States, accommodating everything from a single tradesperson's kit to a large commercial tool inventory. Whether you need support for IRS fair market value reporting, a business transaction, or an estate settlement, our appraisers are credentialed through recognized professional organizations including ISA, ASA, and AAA.
AppraiseItNow covers a broad range of tool types across trades, industries, and professional settings, including:
Our process and deliverables are designed to meet the standards required by the IRS, legal counsel, and financial institutions:
What clients say we are known for
Across 80+ published AppraiseItNow reviews the picture is consistent: every one is from a client who paid us for an appraisal, and the three things they raise most often are that they would hire us again, how quickly we answer, and how much research is visible in the report.
AppraiseItNow did an outstanding job appraising my 1998 Bobcat Skid Steer and circa 2010 Yuchai Crawler Dozer. We could not locate a serial number on the dozer, and there were no online sales available, but they were still able to develop an accurate appraisal using known specifications for my dozer compared to other comparable make and model dozers. They diligently researched both equipment items and provided well-documented reports.
Machinery & Equipment Appraisal
From the start they were very responsive, price competitive, and had a quick turn around time. Thank you so much to Joe who was very sweet in responding to my emails; I am looking forward to utilizing AppraiseItNow for many years to come.
Very thorough and professional — great communication and outstanding service. Highly impressed with their work!
The price a well-informed buyer would pay a well-informed seller in the market where such tools are most commonly sold, with neither under compulsion. Treasury regulations bar valuing property from a forced sale, so distress-auction results are excluded or adjusted rather than taken at face value.
No. Insurance uses replacement cost or actual cash value formulas keyed to the cost of replacing the item, while FMV is what it would actually sell for. Courts, the IRS, and tax assessors generally will not accept unadjusted insurance figures as evidence of market value.
Under statutory fair market value definitions, applying recognized market, cost, and income approaches; Kansas, for example, defines FMV by statute and assesses most taxable personal property at 30 percent of it. Appeals tend to succeed when documented recent sales show the assessor's model overstates actual market prices.
Closed, arm's-length sales of comparable tools within the relevant market window. Asking prices, MSRP, historical purchase price, and unadjusted book value do not establish FMV on their own, which is why our reports tie every conclusion to documented sold comparables rather than listings.
