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Equipment appraisals in North Carolina 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 North Carolina, including Charlotte, Raleigh, and Greensboro.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, NORTH CAROLINA 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 production machinery, construction and agricultural equipment, medical and laboratory instruments and commercial kitchens in North Carolina for lending, charitable gifts, estate distribution, financial reporting and sales between owners. Equipment work runs on records and photographs, with an inspection arranged on the larger projects.
Lending and collateral
A lender wants to know what collateral brings with time to market it, and what the same collateral brings without that time. Both figures come out of one body of research, and the distance between them is usually the part the credit decision turns on. Where a machine only sells to a handful of buyers in the region, that distance widens, and the report says so rather than leaving the lender to discover it later.
Donations and estates
A donated production line, or a machine shop moving through an estate, has to arrive at a figure a reviewer can trace back to real transactions on a stated day. Large assignments are valued by category rather than one machine at a time, and the report sets out which categories it drew and what holds each of them together.
Reporting and sales
Purchase price allocations, buy and sell agreements and partner exits all stall on the same question, and each side tends to answer it in its own favour. An independent figure with its method written out in full is what gets them moving again.
Two recent North Carolina equipment files, each reduced to a single line. Everything that would identify a client stays out of it. What remains is the town, the purpose the report was written for, and the standard of value it applied.
Estate distribution
A fair market value opinion prepared for the personal representative, with age, condition and remaining useful life carried through to the figure.
Charitable donation
Medical equipment valued at the level it would genuinely change hands in, written up for the donor's noncash contribution filing.
Whether a machine sits on the North Carolina tax roll at all turns on three things that say nothing about the machine: what it is being used for, whose hands it is in, and whether it was listed in January.
Deadline
January 31
closes the North Carolina listing period, with extensions no later than April 15
Property is listed for taxation in North Carolina during a period that opens on the first business day of January and closes on January 31. An individual extension may be granted for good cause on a written request filed by that closing date, and it cannot run past April 15. Where a county has provided for electronic listing of personal property, an extension for that listing may run to June 1 instead. A business that lists equipment it has already disposed of, or leaves off equipment it still runs, carries the error into the whole tax year.
Exclusion
Non business use
keeps a machine off the North Carolina roll, unless it is a vehicle, aircraft or watercraft
North Carolina designates non-business property as a special class and excludes it from tax: personal property the owner uses for a purpose other than producing income and not in connection with a business, with household furnishings, clothing, lawn tools and lawn equipment given as examples. Motor vehicles, mobile homes, aircraft, watercraft and engines for watercraft are written out of that definition and stay taxable whatever they are used for. An identical machine can therefore sit on the roll in one owner's hands and off it in another's.
Exclusion
Inventory
owned by a North Carolina manufacturer, merchant or contractor is excluded from the roll
The same statute excludes inventories owned by contractors, inventories owned by manufacturers, and inventories owned by retail and wholesale merchants. A machine held for sale is outside the tax base, and the moment it is put to work producing income it is inside. That distinction changes nothing about what the machine would sell for, since the market does not care who owns it, but it does explain why a dealer's cost records and a plant's tax filings on the same model so rarely line up.
What North Carolina clients say we are known for
Across 16 published North Carolina 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:
G.S. 105-317.1 directs consideration of replacement cost, sales of similar property, age, condition, productivity, remaining life, obsolescence, and economic utility whenever personal property is appraised, and for business equipment the appraiser must also weigh the taxpayer's records and filings. Those same elements are what a well-built independent appraisal documents.
Yes, within 30 days of the initial notice of value; if no separate notice was mailed, the tax bill serves as the notice. If informal review with the assessor does not resolve it, you then have 30 days from the assessor's final decision to seek review by the county board of equalization and review. A market-supported appraisal is the core evidence for that appeal.
Substantially. Fair market value assumes a willing buyer and seller with reasonable exposure time, while orderly and forced liquidation values assume compressed marketing periods and distressed sale conditions, and the spread between premises can be dramatic. We match the premise to the decision at hand, whether that is a sale, a loan, or a dispute.
No. The octennial reappraisal cycle under G.S. 105-286 governs real property. Business machinery and equipment is personal property appraised fresh every year as of January 1, which means depreciation, obsolescence, and market shifts can move its taxable value annually rather than waiting for a county-wide revaluation.
Yes. Under G.S. 105-317.1(b1), any county that uses a cost approach for taxable farm equipment must apply the depreciation schedule the Department of Revenue publishes on its website, creating one statewide pattern for farm machinery. Other equipment classes leave counties more discretion, so identical-looking assets can be depreciated quite differently for tax.
