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Personal property appraisals in Indiana for donations, estate tax, divorce, and probate, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises antiques, jewelry, collectibles, fine art, and furniture across Indiana, including Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Evansville.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT PERSONAL PROPERTY APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, INDIANA COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
Indiana's collector communities in Indianapolis and Fort Wayne sit alongside rural estates holding farm-related personal property and household goods, which puts a broad spectrum of asset types in front of us. One of the assets below links to a page written for Indiana; the rest link to the appraisers who cover them nationwide.
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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.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member with 30 years in the trade, from running estate sales and an auction gallery to appraising luxury apparel, furniture, artwork, antiques, and business assets, primarily for IRS tax filings.
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.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member specializing in Asian art, with a Master's from SOAS and a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art. Ashley chairs the ISA's Antiques, Furnishings, and Decorative Arts committee and appraises for charitable donation, insurance, and equitable distribution.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
International Society of AppraisersAccredited Member
Certified Appraisers Guild of AmericaCertified Appraiser
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow appraises furniture, antiques, fine art, jewelry and household collections in Indiana for probate, charitable deductions, marital settlements and insurance losses. The intended use sets the standard of value before any research begins, and the evidence behind each figure is what property of the same kind has actually sold for. Photographs, receipts and a short conversation are usually enough to open a file.
Probate and administration
A personal representative has to put a figure beside each asset as of the day the decedent died, in enough detail that a reader can tell which object it belongs to. We supply those figures with the research attached, so a beneficiary or an examiner who asks about one two years later gets an answer rather than an estimate.
Charitable deductions
A charitable gift is measured by what comparable property fetches in the resale market on the day of transfer, which is rarely what the donor originally paid. We build that from completed sales and name the market the evidence came from, so the deduction rests on something a reviewer can follow rather than on a round number.
Art, silver, and jewelry
Framed work, flatware services and a few good rings are where two opinions diverge furthest, so each is researched on its own instead of disappearing into a single household figure. What a piece is marked, who made it and how it has worn decide which sold results count as fair comparisons, and the report names the ones it relied on. Where a maker cannot be established, the report says so rather than guessing upward.
Two Indiana files, given here as the city, the property and the standard of value. No owner, no address and no concluded figure appears.
Insurance claim
Custom sofas, a console table, a sideboard and a pair of commodes from one Indianapolis home, valued for a claim on the contents.
Charitable donation
Modular steel shelving, a drawer console, a desk with a corner extension and leather chairs, valued together for the donor.
Two Indiana rules decide what happens to the contents of a home. One sets the point at which an estate can be settled on an affidavit instead of a full administration, and one keeps the annual personal property return on businesses rather than households.
Small estates
$100,000
of gross probate estate keeps an Indiana family on the affidavit
Indiana raised the value of estates that may be distributed by affidavit, and the threshold for summary procedures in unsupervised estates, from $50,000 to $100,000, effective July 1, 2022. Where the household contents are most of what is left, the values written for the furniture, the jewelry and the art are what decide which side of that line an estate falls on.
Property tax
$2,000,000
of acquisition cost is the Indiana business personal property exemption
Businesses, churches and not-for-profit organizations file business tangible personal property forms with the assessor each year on property used in the organization. Licensed vehicles, trailers, boats, campers and recreational vehicles that pay excise at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles sit outside that return, and where a taxpayer has less than $2,000,000 in acquisition costs to report within a county, IC 6-1.1-3-7.2 exempts the property. The values we write for a household serve estates, donations, divorce and claims, not that filing.
What Indiana clients say we are known for
Across 23 published Indiana 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 much research is visible in the report, and how quickly we answer.
I was very pleased with the service from AppraiseItNow. They responded quickly, offered fair pricing and turnaround, and the appraisal was done by a highly qualified expert. I provided details, photos, and records, and the final report was exactly what I needed. Fantastic service. I’d definitely use them again.
Antique Furniture Appraisal for Insurance Claim
AppraiseItNow Inc. is the best company I was lucky to find by accident. I was looking for someone to appraise cabinets for a donation to charity. I asked for multiple referrals, called multiple appraisal services, etc., and no one could help me. I found AppraiseItNow and from the moment I started working with them, they were wonderful! Joe guided me on what I needed to send him, what needed to be done and stayed in touch with me the entire time. Their customer service is OUTSTANDING and a welcome surprise in today’s world where good customer service is an anomaly! They returned an appraisal in a timely manner, it was clear, concise, cost-effective and exactly what I needed. They followed up with me multiple times to ensure that I received it and everything was OK. My CPA is also thrilled to have them as an accredited appraisal service he can use for other clients. I rarely leave reviews, but I could not pass giving them 5 stars and I’d give 10 if possible! THANK YOU JOE AND ALL AT APPRAISEITNOW!!👊🏼
Personal Property Appraisal for Charitable Donation
It is a pleasure to work with Joe and his team. They communicate every step along the way and made the process simple for us to have more than 35 firearms appraised. It was all done in a timely manner and the final report is easy to understand. I highly recommend their services.
Gun Appraisal for Probate
I was skeptical at first, but the company exceeded all of my expectations. The team responded quickly to every question, and the service was excellent. They’re now my go to source for my collection. I’ve used them twice already, and I plan to use them several more times.
Firearms Appraisal for Personal Use
Joe made the process to have my piece of furniture appraised extremely easy, efficient and quick. My experience was great and I'd recommend AppraiseItNow to anyone looking for an appraisal.
Furniture Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
I asked AppraiseItNow to value a piece of sports memorabilia for purposes of a charitable donation. The item is rarely sold. Their research unearthed an important recent sale of a similar item, which I had not found previously, and which the first appraiser I used had not found either. AppraiseItNow was a good deal more expensive than the first service, but they crafted a detailed report in which I have much more confidence. They also helped me make sure the correct tax forms are used. Thank you!
Sports Memorabilia 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 personal representative must prepare and file an inventory of the estate's property, tangible personal property included, generally within 60 days of the issuance of letters, using court-approved forms that list and value each asset. Supportable date-specific values keep the filing consistent with later accountings.
Because the assignment dictates whether value is current, retrospective, or prospective: date of death for estate tax, date of gift for gift tax, date of casualty for loss claims. Misaligning the effective date with the legal or tax event is one of the most frequent errors in appraisals prepared without a clear intended use.
No. Insurance appraisals develop replacement cost using current retail pricing and little or no depreciation, while fair market value work reflects what a willing buyer would actually pay in the relevant market. The two use different definitions, methods, and data sources, so one cannot stand in for the other on an Indiana estate or tax filing.
Yes. Indiana Code 29-1-12-1(c) lets the personal representative employ a disinterested appraiser to help establish fair market value as of the date of death for any asset whose value may be subject to reasonable doubt, and expressly allows different people to appraise different kinds of assets. Furniture, jewelry, artwork, and a vehicle can each go to a specialist, and the inventory must list each appraiser’s name and address beside the items they valued.