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Equipment appraisals in Georgia for donations, lending, M&A, and financial reporting, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises manufacturing equipment, construction machinery, agricultural equipment, medical devices, and industrial tools across Georgia, including Atlanta, Savannah, and Augusta.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, GEORGIA COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
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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.
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Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
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The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow appraises production machinery, metalworking and fabrication equipment, food and beverage processing lines, construction and material handling machines, medical devices, and highway tractors in Georgia for lending, charitable donations, bankruptcy filings, purchases and sales, property tax disputes, and financial reporting. Equipment work is delivered online where an asset list, maintenance records, and photographs can carry it, and on site for a plant or a yard too large to cover that way. Georgia's manufacturing, food processing, and freight base means the same machine can face a lender in one month and a county assessor the next, and the two want the figure built differently.
Lending and transactions
Orderly and forced liquidation figures for a secured loan, and fair market value for a purchase or a sale, each drawn from completed auction results and dealer offerings rather than from a depreciation schedule. The report says which premise carried the conclusion and why.
Property tax disputes
Georgia counties reach a value for business equipment by applying a factor to what the asset cost when new. Where that overstates what a machine would actually bring today, an appraisal grounded in condition and market evidence is what shows the gap and where the gap came from.
Donations and bankruptcy
A single donated asset, or a full schedule of rolling stock and shop equipment for a filing, valued by category where the volume is large and one at a time where the money actually sits. Hours, maintenance history, and whether a machine is still in its original line all move the result, so those go in the record before any number does.
Two Georgia equipment files from the past year, each reduced to what the assignment was. Who the owner was, and the figure we reached, stay in the file.
Bankruptcy filing
A high hour Century Class tractor, well past the range where guide values hold together, valued for the schedules.
Charitable donation
A food truck with its kitchen already built in, valued as it stood for the donor's noncash contribution paperwork.
Georgia's appraisal procedures manual tells county staff how to put a number on machinery. Three of its provisions decide what a Georgia machine is carried at, and each one is a place where independent evidence has something to say.
Equipment under construction
.75
the uniform market risk factor
While a large machine or a production line is still being built or installed, its costs usually sit in a holding account rather than a fixed asset account, and Georgia county staff are directed to consider that total cost. Such property has little physical wear but would sell badly in an incomplete state, so where no comparable sales and no other specific evidence of that loss in value exist, the staff may multiply the identified total cost of construction by a uniform market risk factor of .75. An appraisal is precisely the other evidence the rule leaves room for.
Rebuilt machines
Indexed cost
how an overhaul is added back
Money spent modernizing or rebuilding a machine is not simply added to its original cost in Georgia. The cost of the overhaul is divided by an index factor representing inflation between the year the asset was acquired and the year of the overhaul, that amount is subtracted from the original cost, and the remainder is carried at the conversion factor for the original acquisition year, while the overhaul itself is carried at the current year's factor. The two are then combined. A machine that has been through a major rebuild can sit a long way from the number that arithmetic produces.
State contracts
Pro rata
how equipment on state work is split
Personal property belonging to a contractor or subcontractor may not be assessed as a condition of, or as a result of, work performed on a project being constructed, repaired, remodeled, enlarged, or serviced for the state. Where the property sits in the owner's headquarters county and is used exclusively for such projects, it is treated as exempt. Where it sits in another county and would not be there but for the state work, the assessment is apportioned to the share of the business those projects represent, measured by income, production output, or time. Either way, the starting point is what the machines are worth.
What Georgia clients say we are known for
Across 16 published Georgia appraisal reviews, every one from a client who paid AppraiseItNow for an appraisal, 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.
I recommend AppraiseItNow Inc. highly. I needed an appraisal of fair market value for geologic laboratory equipment for charitable donations to three universities. The unique items and limited secondary market complicated the valuation. They provided a sound, verifiable estimate and the 8283 forms that I was able to use in my tax filings. I would use them again.
Lab Equipment Appraisal for Charitable Donation
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
I highly recommend the AppraiseItNow team. They were responsive and timely from start to finish, and the whole process was seamless. The final report was super detailed and gave me all the information I needed. I am so glad I hired them and would recommend them to anyone needing an appraisal!
Technology Equipment Appraisal for Divorce
I needed an IRS-qualified appraisal for an unusual and costly piece of medical equipment. AppraiseItNow was able to provide me exactly what I needed on a timely basis. The personnel at the company are very friendly and helpful. I would definitely use them again.
Medical Equipment Appraisal for Charitable Donation
Affordable and reliable, with fast service and always responsive to my messages and questions. They delivered my appraisal on time without a glitch. 100% Recommended! I wouldn’t use anyone else for my business. Thank you, Joe — you’re great!
Machinery & Equipment Appraisal for Bankruptcy Filing
They did an appraisal of medical equipment for donation. They did it quickly, and I received a blank form 8283 signed by the appraiser. It was what I needed. The price was higher than I wanted to spend on an appraisal, but a lot lower than other appraisers. AppraiseItNow was very responsive and communicative, and the other appraisers were not. I would use them again.
Medical Equipment 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:
Auction platforms and listing services such as MachineryTrader, IronPlanet, and BidSpotter, plus dealer offerings and manufacturer data. Appraisers adjust observed prices for age, hours, brand, location, and installation to reconcile to the appropriate premise, whether fair market value, orderly liquidation value, or forced liquidation value.
No. Net carrying value reflects accounting policies and depreciation schedules, not observable resale prices or replacement costs, and relying on it for lending, sale, or insurance decisions can significantly misstate value. An appraisal adjusts for actual market conditions, physical wear, and functional and economic obsolescence separately.
Using a prescribed basic cost approach: the county appraisal staff takes original cost new, assigns a uniform economic life group, applies the composite conversion factor, and considers salvage value at end of life, under Department of Revenue Rule 560-11-10-.08. An independent appraisal can provide evidence when the formula overstates an asset's actual market value.
Mainly for combined asset groups. Valuation literature applies the income approach to production lines and other asset sets that generate earnings together, while individual machines are generally better served by the cost and market approaches. A credible report explains which approach carried the conclusion and why the others were given less weight.
No. Georgia's appraisal rules bar county staff from preparing partial-year appraisals just because property was owned for only part of the year, and personal property is reappraised annually based on its January 1 status. Timing of acquisitions and disposals around that date matters far more than length of ownership.
