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Personal property appraisals in Nebraska 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 Nebraska, including Omaha, Lincoln, and Bellevue.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT PERSONAL PROPERTY APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, NEBRASKA 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 household contents, antiques, silver, jewelry, art and collections in Nebraska for charitable gifts, probate inventories, inheritance tax filings, divorce and insurance schedules. Nebraska households bring us a wide spread of property, from a single ring to the whole contents of a farmhouse that three generations filled, and the method does not change with the size of it. What changes is the reason for asking, and the reason decides which market the number has to be drawn from before a single comparable is looked at.
Charitable gifts
What a room of furnishings would fetch from a buyer under no pressure is usually far below what the family paid for it, and the deduction rests on the first of those figures. A large gift is reported in categories, with the pieces that carry the weight of the value pulled out and researched one at a time.
Probate and inheritance
Property in a Nebraska estate is reported at fair market value as of the date of death, and an inheritance tax return reads the same figures a county court does. Research runs to the sales that closed around that date, and where a category offers nothing close the file says plainly how far afield the search had to go.
Divorce and coverage
Dividing property asks what it would sell for. Scheduling the same pieces for coverage asks what replacing them would cost on the retail market today. Both answers are correct for the purpose they were written for, and neither of them travels safely into the other.
Two Nebraska charitable donation assignments, one headline apiece. Names, addresses and every figure stay in the working file.
Charitable donation
The contents of a whole house cleared out at once, split between two receiving charities and valued in categories for the donor deduction.
Charitable donation
Household furniture given to a receiving nonprofit, valued from completed resale results for pieces of the same type, maker and condition.
Two Nebraska rules sit behind a personal property number: what the state actually taxes, and who the court expects to see standing behind a value once an estate is opened.
Property tax
Net book value
is what Nebraska taxes personal property at, and it is not market value
Household goods and personal effects not owned or used for financial gain or profit are exempt from Nebraska property tax, and so is any tangible personal property that is not depreciable tangible personal property: property used in a trade or business, or for the production of income, with a determinable life longer than a year. What stays on the rolls is not valued at what it would sell for. It is carried at net book value, a statutory percentage of the Nebraska adjusted basis for the recovery period the item falls in, run on a 150 percent declining balance method that switches to straight line with a half year convention. A county figure built that way is not evidence of market value and should not be handed to an insurer or a court as though it were.
Probate
Named on the inventory
is where a Nebraska appraiser's name and address have to appear
A Nebraska personal representative may employ a qualified and disinterested appraiser to establish the fair market value, as of the date of death, of any asset whose value may be subject to reasonable doubt, and may employ different people to appraise different kinds of assets. The names and addresses of any appraiser must then be shown on the inventory beside the items that person appraised. It is a short provision with a long consequence: the value and the person who reached it arrive in front of the court together, and both are open to question.
What Nebraska clients say we are known for
Across 23 published Nebraska 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:
Maker, pattern, rarity, completeness, and condition. Melt value from weight, purity, and spot price sets the floor, but pieces by famous silversmiths, rare or discontinued patterns, and complete matched services command documented premiums supported by realized auction prices. For common or damaged pieces, melt may represent nearly all the worth.
Badly, yes. Plated items marked EPNS, EP, or A1 carry only a thin silver coating and should never be priced by weight at the sterling spot price; contested cases can be resolved with nondestructive XRF testing. Knife blades are typically steel and hollow handles contain filler, so we exclude them from sterling weight before computing metal content.
No. Nebraska's Real Property Appraiser Act covers real estate appraisers only; there is no parallel licensing scheme for personal property. That means probate and divorce valuations of silver, antiques, and collections are not restricted to state-licensed real estate appraisers, and quality rests on methodology and documentation instead.
Often, yes. Nebraska is an inheritance tax state, so the fair market value of silver a beneficiary receives enters the county-administered tax base, with graduated rates that climb for more distant relatives. A supportable appraisal keeps the reported value defensible in the probate filing.
