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Equipment appraisals in Oregon 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 Oregon, including Portland, Salem, and Eugene.
AppraiseItNow was very responsive and communicative, and the other appraisers were not
I recommend AppraiseItNow Inc. highly… I would use them again
They diligently researched both equipment items and provided well-documented reports
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, OREGON 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 manufacturing and processing equipment, agricultural machinery, construction iron, wood products machinery, laboratory and medical devices and shop tooling in Oregon for lending, charitable donations, buy and sell agreements, mergers, financial reporting, insurance, and litigation. Oregon's tax code treats farm machinery, rented heavy equipment and machinery bolted to a building in three different ways, and a report that ignores those lines ends up valuing the wrong asset.
Lending and transactions
An asset based lender wants the figure recoverable in a sale it controls; a buyer wants the worth of the line as it runs. We state which premise a conclusion uses and keep the two apart inside one report.
Donations and reporting
A donated machine is valued as it stood when it changed hands, and a reporting assignment as of the period end. Each conclusion carries the comparable sales or the cost analysis it actually came from.
Thin markets
Purpose built processing equipment and older mill machinery rarely reach a public sale. Those we value from dealer inventory, private transactions and the cost of a machine that does the same work, naming which evidence carried the figure.
Whether a machine is bolted to a building, held out for rent, or used to grow a crop changes which Oregon rules reach it and which roll it sits on. That gets settled before a figure is set, because it decides what is actually being valued.
Where the machine sits
Machinery attached to a building can land on the real property roll instead of the personal property roll, which changes who values it and under which rules. We flag the installed assets before any figure is placed on them.
Rental fleets
Oregon takes a share of the rental price on qualifying heavy equipment held for rent and leaves that equipment out of property tax instead. A rental fleet is therefore appraised for lending, insurance or a sale, not for the assessor.
Three Oregon rules decide whether a machine is taxed at all and on which roll it sits. Each one turns on how the equipment is used rather than on what it cost.
Exemption
Fully exempt
Oregon farm machinery and property tax
Oregon exempts from ad valorem property taxation farm machinery and equipment used or held for use primarily in preparing land or in planting, raising, cultivating, irrigating, harvesting or placing in storage of farm crops. The exemption also covers equipment used primarily for feeding or breeding livestock, poultry, fur bearing animals or bees, for the management and sale of those animals or their produce, or for dairying and the sale of dairy products, and any other primarily agricultural, horticultural or animal husbandry use. Use, not the machine's make or age, is what the exemption turns on, which is the first thing a valuation of mixed farm and commercial equipment has to establish.
Rental fleets
2%
Oregon's rate on qualifying heavy equipment rent
Oregon imposes a tax of two percent on the rental price received for qualified heavy equipment, collected by the provider from the renter, and exempts that equipment from any and all ad valorem property taxes for as long as its rental is taxed that way. Qualified heavy equipment means construction, mining, earthmoving or industrial equipment, together with attachments and tools and including towable trailers and fixed load vehicles, that is mobile, owned by a qualified provider and held primarily for rental. Mobile is itself defined: intended to be moved among worksites as needed, and not intended to be permanently affixed to real property when put to its intended use.
Classification
Affixed
the word that moves Oregon machinery to the other roll
Under Oregon's property tax definitions, real property includes all buildings, structures, improvements, machinery, equipment or fixtures erected upon, above or affixed to the land. An installed press, a fixed dust collection system or a built in cooler can therefore sit on the real property roll while the forklift beside it sits on the personal property roll. Which roll an asset belongs on changes the rules that govern its valuation, so a plant appraisal separates the installed assets from the movable ones before setting any figure.
What Oregon clients say we are known for
Across 16 published Oregon 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.
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
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 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
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
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:
With comparable sales from auction platforms and dealer markets adjusted for age, hours, and configuration, supported by the cost approach where market data is thin. Credible reports separate physical depreciation, functional obsolescence, and economic obsolescence rather than applying one age-based schedule.
Not necessarily. For Oregon's personal property tax, assessors apply standardized valuation factors from the Department of Revenue's guidelines to original cost, with minimum value floors, against the return due March 15 each year. An appraisal measures what the equipment would actually bring in its market, which can sit above or below the factored figure.
The one that matches the decision. Fair market value in continued use fits buy-sell and financing on a going concern, orderly liquidation fits a planned wind-down, and forced liquidation fits distressed sale scenarios. The same machinery line can carry very different values under each premise, so we agree on it before fieldwork.
No. Personal property is assessable only if, on January 1 at 1 a.m., it is in Oregon, not in transit, and has come to rest. Valuation must also reflect the property's level of trade, so the same machine carries different values in a manufacturer's, wholesaler's, or end user's hands. Situs and trade-level questions are worth checking before accepting an assessment.
Conceptually, yes. The income approach suits combined asset groups such as complete production lines, where earning capacity attaches to the set rather than any single machine, while individual units are better valued through market comparables and cost analysis. A credible report explains which approach carried the conclusion for which assets.