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Automobile appraisals in Pennsylvania for donations, insurance claims, estate tax, and divorce, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises classic cars, collector vehicles, daily drivers, commercial vehicles, and motorcycles across Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Allentown.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT AUTO APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, PENNSYLVANIA 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 cars, pickups, motorcycles, motorhomes, trailers and commercial trucks in Pennsylvania for insurance claims, charitable gifts, probate and estate filings, divorce, and lending. The purpose comes first, because it fixes the standard of value, and the conclusion rests on sales a reader can go and check. Reports are written for whoever has to act on them next: an adjuster, an executor, a judge, or a credit committee.
Claims and disputed losses
When an owner and a carrier are far apart, the question is what the vehicle would have brought in this market the day before it was hit. The report shows every comparable sale behind that number. Condition before the impact is reconstructed from photographs, service history and any work the vehicle was already due.
Estates and divorce
An inheritance tax return, a probate inventory and a marital settlement all need a figure that survives a second reading. A motorcycle or a motorhome gets the same treatment as the family sedan.
Lending and donations
A lender sees the unit priced on what comparable machines bring when they sell, never on what it cost new. A donor gets the value the deduction will be claimed on, written to the standard the filing needs. A modified truck is valued on what the modifications bring at resale, which is rarely the sum of the invoices behind them.
Three vehicles we appraised in Pennsylvania, described here only by their city, their make and the standard the value was written to. Everything else stays in the reports. All three were closed assignments, and each one is shown with the purpose it was written for.
Probate court
A Toyota 4Runner valued for a Pennsylvania probate file, in the condition it was in on the date the court cared about.
Loan collateral
A Peterbilt triaxle dump truck valued for a lender who wanted the machine priced on its own merits before advancing against it.
The owner's own question
A motorhome valued for the person who owned it, with no filing waiting on the number and no purpose beyond knowing it.
Three Pennsylvania rules govern what a vehicle is worth on paper: how a total loss is calculated, what happens when the vehicle is too unusual for the books, and when the state questions a reported price.
Total loss
Two guide figures
averaged, then adjusted for equipment and mileage
Where the cost of repair passes the appraised value of the vehicle less its salvage, the loss is written at replacement value, and the regulation names the methods. Under the guide source method, two retail book figures for a vehicle of like kind and condition are averaged, then adjusted for equipment fitted and for mileage, less the cost of repairing damage that predated the accident. No other deduction is permitted except salvage, and that only where the owner keeps the vehicle.
Classics and one offs
Off the books
is where an antique or modified vehicle is valued
A vehicle that is not listed in at least two approved guides, or that differs materially from the average vehicle because of factors the guides do not consider, is valued another way: by the actual cost of an available vehicle of like kind and quality, whose location is named in writing, or by at least two dealer quotations, averaged. Where the quotation route is taken, both calculations are made and the higher of them is offered in settlement. Antique and classic cars, vehicles no longer manufactured and one off vehicles are named in the rule itself.
Reported price
80%
of book value is where PennDOT starts asking questions
When the price reported on a title application falls below 80 percent of the average fair market value in an approved publication, the buyer and seller have to explain in writing how that price was reached. The same explanation is required for a vehicle over 15 years old sold for under $500, and for any vehicle the approved publications do not list at all. The check covers passenger vehicles, trucks registered at 11,000 pounds and under, motorcycles and motorhomes from the past 15 model years, and the Department of Revenue may audit the sale afterwards.
What Pennsylvania clients say we are known for
Across 22 published Pennsylvania 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.
Wonderful experience with the entire team. We received a full appraisal that was very thorough and included everything we needed as a nonprofit from an appraisal company to accept a donated vehicle and provide the appropriate documentation.
Auto Appraisal for Charitable Donation
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
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
I was in dire need of an appraisal for my father's mobile home, which he needed for Medicaid approval. I couldn’t find anyone to do it for a long time, but then I found this company online and decided to give them a try. I’m so glad I did. They were wonderful to work with. I sent the pictures, and within just a few days I received the appraisal. They are absolutely worth the money.
Mobile Home Appraisal
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
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:
A guide baseline cross-checked against current listings for matching year, make, model, and spec, confirmed with recent auction results, then adjusted for mileage, engine and transmission, emissions equipment, and maintenance history. The report shows the comp set and adjustment logic instead of just stating a number.
Because retail, private-party, trade-in, auction, and actual cash value are different standards that can vary by thousands of dollars on the same unit. An appraisal has to match the standard of value to the purpose, whether that is a sale, lending, insurance, or a loss claim.
Generally, yes. Pennsylvania is an equitable distribution state, and marital personal property values submitted to the court typically reflect fair market value as of the date of separation, though the court can order a different valuation date. We prepare retrospective truck appraisals tied to whichever date the case requires.
