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Personal property appraisals in Mississippi for donations, estate tax, divorce, and probate, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises antiques, jewelry, collectibles, furniture, and fine art across Mississippi, including Jackson, Gulfport, and Hattiesburg.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT PERSONAL PROPERTY APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, MISSISSIPPI 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.
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 antiques, jewelry, silver, coins, firearms, fine art, and whole household contents in Mississippi for estate administration, charitable gifts, divorce, and insurance. Most of the work is delivered online from photographs, receipts, and whatever list the owner already keeps, and an appraiser travels when the size of the job asks for it. Collections of Mississippi firearms are handled on their own page.
Estates
Probate work and a federal estate return both look backwards. The figure is built from sales that closed around the date of death rather than from what the same piece would bring this month, and the report says plainly which date it answers to.
Charitable gifts
A noncash gift is valued as of the day the property left the house, so the photographs the donor took and the list they wrote matter more than anything that happens after. We work from what was recorded while the items were still in front of somebody.
Divorce
A division of property is read by two sides with opposite incentives. The effective date, the standard of value, and the market evidence all sit on the page, so the disagreement stays about the property itself rather than about where the figures came from.
Two things decide whether a Mississippi appraisal survives the person who reads it next: what the pieces actually are, and what genuinely comparable pieces actually sold for. Everything else in the report is there to show its work on those two.
Identification first
Sterling against plate, gold content, a maker mark, a pattern, a signature, an edition size. Identification comes first, because a conclusion built on the wrong attribution stays wrong however careful the arithmetic after it, and it is the step an owner pricing by weight alone skips entirely.
Large households
A house full of furniture, kitchenware, linens, and ordinary furnishings is valued in groups rather than object by object, with the pieces that carry real money pulled out and treated on their own. That keeps the report proportionate to what is actually at stake.
Two Mississippi rules put people in front of an appraiser: the cap on what a debtor keeps, and the inventory an executor files.
Creditor exemptions
$10,000
the cumulative cap on tangible personal property a Mississippi debtor selects
A Mississippi debtor may select tangible personal property up to ten thousand dollars in cumulative value and keep it from seizure under execution or attachment, counting household goods, wearing apparel, books, animals or crops, motor vehicles, tools of the trade, cash on hand, prescribed health aids, and any item worth less than two hundred dollars each. The statute then defines household goods narrowly: clothing, furniture, appliances, one radio and one television, one firearm, one lawn mower, linens, china, crockery, kitchenware, and personal effects including wedding rings. Works of art, jewelry other than wedding rings, electronic entertainment equipment beyond that single television and radio, and items acquired as antiques all sit outside the term, which is exactly why those are the pieces somebody ends up needing a value on.
Probate inventories
90 days
from the grant of letters to the inventory, unless the court allows longer
An executor or administrator files an inventory within ninety days of the grant of letters, unless further time is allowed by the court or clerk, listing the money and property the decedent owned at death in reasonable detail and giving, for each listed item, its market value as of the date of death together with the type and amount of any encumbrance. The requirement can be waived in the will, and a chancellor may waive it in an intestate estate on the administrator's petition. A beneficiary or other interested party can still ask the court to order one where the court finds it necessary or advisable, which is the point at which a documented value stops being optional.
What Mississippi clients say we are known for
Across 23 published Mississippi 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.
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
I used AppraiseItNow for the first time last month and I was extremely pleased with the results. I needed an appraisal done for insurance purposes and the level of detail about each of my antique furniture pieces was thorough and very helpful in my being able to get the highest amount possible from my insurance company for the antique items that were damaged. I could see that they spent time making sure that the information she included was correct and current for my antique furniture items in the current market. The team responded to my emails timely to answer any questions I had. I would highly recommend Appraise It Now to get a thorough and professional appraisal done on antique items. I do intend to use them again for other antique furniture and jewelry that I have. Job well done! 😃🤗
Antique Furniture Appraisal for Insurance Claim
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:
By applying the cost, market, and income approaches and selecting what fits the asset: comparable sales for art, antiques, and collectibles, cost-based analysis for equipment and furnishings. The effective date is matched to the assignment, which often means a retrospective date-of-death valuation for estate work.
No state-level tax. Mississippi has no estate or inheritance tax, so personal property passing at death is exposed only to federal estate tax in estates above the federal exclusion. Date-of-death values still matter for basis documentation and for dividing property fairly among heirs.
No. Insurance appraisals use replacement cost through retail channels, while estate, tax, and legal work requires fair market value, what a willing buyer would actually pay. The two standards rely on different methods and data sources, and swapping one for the other is a common costly mistake.
All taxpayers with taxable personal property, not just large corporations. Mississippi’s listing rule uses the broad phrase “all taxpayers,” so sole proprietors and small businesses must supply the county assessor a true listing of taxable assets each year, with a 10% assessment penalty for failures. Purely personal household items stay outside the requirement.
Every year at true value, with a physical review of every account at least once every four years and close inspection of roughly 25% of personal property parcels annually. The cycle keeps tax values current on paper, but they remain schedule-driven figures rather than the market evidence estates, courts, and insurers require.
