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Automobile appraisals in Georgia for donations, insurance claims, estate tax, and divorce, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises classic cars, luxury vehicles, commercial trucks, motorcycles, and salvage vehicles across Georgia, including Atlanta, Savannah, and Augusta.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT AUTO APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, GEORGIA 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 standardsAppraiseItNow appraises passenger cars, pickups, commercial tractors, motorcycles, trailers, and motorhomes in Georgia for insurance claims, charitable donations, estate and probate filings, divorce, and lending. Georgia sits on top of a dense dealer and wholesale market, so a vehicle here can usually be measured against real sales nearby rather than against a guide figure, and real sales are the evidence an adjuster, an executor, or a judge actually weighs.
Total loss and damage
When a settlement sits under what the same vehicle brings around the owner, we rebuild the value it held the moment before the loss from comparable sales, counting aftermarket equipment and recently replaced parts rather than leaving them out.
Repaired and branded vehicles
A vehicle put back together after a collision or a hailstorm carries that history into its market, and a branded title carries it permanently. We read the repair out of the records, so the figure reflects the vehicle as it actually stood rather than a clean example of the same model.
Donations, estates, lending
Older motorhomes, converted buses, custom trailers, project cars, and working tractors fall outside the guides entirely. Those we value from sales of comparable units together with the build and service history, which is the support a charity, an executor, or a lender asks to see.
The use decides the standard and the date decides the market, so a Georgia report names both before it names a figure. The comparable sales behind the number are set out as well, since an adjuster, an executor, or opposing counsel goes looking for those first.
Insurance claims
An insurer measures a claim against what the vehicle was worth immediately before the damage. We date the report to that day and set out the comparable sales behind it, which is what an argument over the amount of loss comes down to.
Donations and estates
A donated vehicle is valued at what it would bring as it sat, and a decedent's vehicle as of the date of death. Both figures are drawn from the market that buys that kind of vehicle, and the report says which market that was.
Two Georgia rules shape what a damaged vehicle is worth: the market an insurer has to shop in once it calls a vehicle a total loss, and what happens to the title of a vehicle that goes through that process and returns to the road.
Total loss
50 miles
how Georgia draws the local market area
When a Georgia insurer settles a total loss in cash, the figure has to rest on the cost of two or more comparable automobiles in the local market area, defined as fifty miles from the county seat where the vehicle was principally garaged, available now or at some point in the previous thirty days. Only when nothing comparable can be found there may the search widen to one hundred miles. A statistical valuation source may be used instead, but it has to give primary consideration to that same local market, and a comparable automobile means the same manufacturer, the same model year, and similar body style, options, and mileage.
Salvage and rebuilt
Rebuilt brand
what the Georgia title carries afterward
A vehicle branded salvage in Georgia, or branded salvage, flood, water, fire, or total loss in another state, has to go through the rebuilt process before it can be titled for the road again. Only a licensed rebuilder may buy a salvage or wrecked vehicle in order to restore it, the vehicle has to pass inspection before it is painted, and the application runs on forms MV-1, T-129, and T-22R with pre-repair photographs and parts receipts attached. The brand stays on the title after all of that, and the brand is what the resale market prices.
What Georgia clients say we are known for
Across 22 published Georgia 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:
The spec sheet and the records: make, model, year, mileage, engine and transmission, axle configuration, emissions equipment, modifications, and maintenance history. Appraisers baseline against references like the NADA Commercial Truck Guide, then verify with auction transaction data and current dealer listings before adjusting for condition and regional demand.
It depends on the assignment, and the report must say so. Loan underwriting, insurance, sale, and forced liquidation each point to different standards, and the same truck can support very different conclusions across retail, wholesale, and auction markets. A report that never states its intended use and standard of value is vulnerable to challenge.
At twice the vehicle's value as determined by the Georgia Department of Revenue or other acceptable evidence of value. A formal appraisal is not always required; a bill of sale, dealer statement, or recognized valuation source can establish the number, but an appraisal helps when the truck's condition or spec makes guide values unreliable.
No. An interstate carrier can title a truck in Georgia without paying TAVT by filing Form T-146, paying instead the annual Alternative Ad Valorem Tax, which uses fixed value bands tied to weight class. The exemption depends on keeping IRP registration current: letting it lapse triggers immediate assessment of regular state and local ad valorem tax plus penalties.
The Department of Revenue's Motor Vehicle Assessment Manual, which commonly reflects NADA clean retail figures rather than trade-in or auction prices. For a high-mileage working truck, clean retail can overstate what the unit would actually bring, and a condition-based appraisal documents the gap when values are challenged or a claim is negotiated.
