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Automobile appraisals in Kansas 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 Kansas, including Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT AUTO APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, KANSAS 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, SUVs, motorcycles, work trucks, trailers and collector vehicles in Kansas for insurance and total loss claims, estate and probate filings, charitable donations, divorce, and lending. Kansas law itself reaches for comparable sales to settle what a damaged vehicle was worth, so a report built from real transactions is speaking the state's own language rather than translating into it.
Damage and total loss
Where a settlement falls short of what that model actually sells for in the owner's part of Kansas, we document the value it held immediately before the damage, counting fitted options, aftermarket equipment and recent mechanical work.
Donations, estates, divorce
A donated vehicle is valued as it stood when the title moved, a decedent's as of the date of death, and a divided one as of the date the court works from. The report names the date and the sales behind it.
Outside the price books
Older farm trucks, unfinished projects, grain trailers and custom builds are not in the guides at all. Those we value from sold comparables plus the build and service records, which is what a charity, a lender or an executor looks for.
A damaged Kansas vehicle raises two valuation questions at once: what it was worth intact, and what the repair would cost measured against that figure. Both sit inside the state's own salvage test, and both are worth settling before a title is branded.
Repair estimates
Kansas counts the cost of repair as retail parts plus customary labor, and leaves out tires, sound systems and sales tax on the parts. A padded estimate can push a repairable vehicle over the line, so the arithmetic is worth checking.
After the brand
Once a vehicle has carried a salvage title the rebuilt brand stays with it, and the resale market prices that brand as much as it prices the repair. We value the vehicle as it actually stands, not as a clean example of the same model.
Kansas puts the valuation question inside the statute that decides whether a damaged vehicle can be registered at all. Three definitions do the work: what counts as salvage, how far back the test reaches, and what may stand as fair market value.
Threshold
75%
repair cost against the value before the damage
A late model vehicle of a type required to be registered in Kansas becomes a salvage vehicle once the total cost of repair is 75% or more of its fair market value immediately preceding the damage, unless what happened was merely exterior cosmetic damage from windstorm or hail. Both sides of that fraction are valuation questions, and the carve out for hail means a car covered in dents is not automatically a salvage vehicle.
Which vehicles
Six years
how far back the Kansas test reaches
The percentage test applies to a late model vehicle, which Kansas defines as one carrying a manufacturer's model year designation of the year it was wrecked or any of the six preceding years. An older vehicle is judged instead on whether required equipment is missing or the vehicle is inoperable to the point that substantial repair would be needed before it could be registered. A collector car and a current pickup therefore face different tests after the same collision.
Proof of value
Comparable sales
the second route the Kansas statute allows
For these purposes Kansas defines fair market value as the retail value of a vehicle either as set out in a current edition of a recognized retail compilation, including an automated database of retail value, or as determined by a market survey of comparable vehicles with regard to condition and equipment. That second route is an appraisal, which is why a report built on sold comparables and a documented condition assessment answers the statute on its own terms instead of arguing around a guide figure.
What Kansas clients say we are known for
Across 22 published Kansas 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:
For commercial personal property including RVs, Kansas guidance instructs assessors to start from 85 percent of the J.D. Power suggested list value for current-model units, then apply straight-line depreciation over up to seven years with minimum taxable value floors. That statutory formula is a tax construct, not a market appraisal.
No. The most accurate values combine guide baselines from J.D. Power or KBB, active and completed market listings, and a professional condition assessment, since single calculators miss regional demand and condition adjustments that can move value by tens of percent.
Yes. Units that demonstrably generate rental or business income can support an income approach based on documented revenue, expenses, and remaining useful life, while purely personal-use RVs are valued through market comparison and cost analysis. Applying income methods to a personal coach is considered inappropriate.
Design and dimensions. K.S.A. 79-5118 requires a unit built on or for use on a chassis and designed as living quarters for recreation, camping, vacation, or travel use, no more than 8.5 feet wide and 45 feet long, with plumbing and heating provisions and an electrical system operating above 12 volts. Units that miss the definition fall back into ordinary personal property valued at market value.
Shipping weight, not loaded weight or gross vehicle weight rating. For model year 1982 and newer coaches, if the county cannot establish shipping weight from authorized documentation, the owner must weigh the unit at a certified scale and supply that figure. Motor vehicles operated over 20,000 pounds and non-highway units are appraised at market value instead of using the age and weight schedule.
