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Gun appraisals in Tennessee for donations, estate tax, divorce, and probate, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises rifles, shotguns, handguns, antique firearms, and collectible guns across Tennessee, including Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT FIREARMS APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, TENNESSEE 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 rifles, shotguns, handguns, antique arms and whole collections in Tennessee for probate, charitable deductions, divorce and insurance. Each report describes the arm in the terms its market prices it in, then states the standard of value the filing needs and the day the figure is drawn to.
Probate
Guns are taken one at a time, with maker, model, chambering and condition recorded, and valued as of the date of death so that an executor's filing rests on something a court can read.
Divorce
One set of values, prepared from the same evidence for every gun in the safe, gives both sides something to divide instead of two opinions that cancel each other out. The reasoning sits in the report, not in a conversation.
Donations
A gift is deductible at what the arm would bring in the market where guns like it actually sell, on the day it changed hands, and the report supports that with sales a reviewer can check.
What a report has to prove changes with where it is going. An insurer scheduling a policy wants replacement cost, an executor wants fair market value on a single day, and a family court wants a figure both sides can work from. The same collection can carry three different totals for those three purposes without any of them being wrong.
Collections
Some collections bring more assembled than dispersed and some are the other way round. The report says which way the property was valued and what that assumes about the buyer.
What goes with them
Scopes, period cases, reloading equipment and spare magazines carry value of their own, and leaving them off a schedule is how an owner ends up underinsured. They are listed alongside the arms they belong with.
Two Tennessee rules reach firearms head on: one where a collection's value settles how an estate is administered, and one where the state stopped taxing what keeps the collection locked up.
Small estates
$50,000
of probate property is the ceiling on a Tennessee small estate
The Small Estate Probate Act reaches an estate in which the value of the probate property does not exceed $50,000. Forty five days after the death, an heir may petition for limited letters, and those letters reach only the property listed in the petition, which is attached to them. No notice to creditors is published, and the letters stay open until the first anniversary of their issue. Where assets later come to light that carry the estate past the limit, the court may convert the administration into ordinary probate. A gun collection is exactly the sort of property whose value is assumed rather than known until somebody writes it down.
Tennessee Public Chapter 297 of 2023, the Small Estate Probate Act
Storage
Tax exempt
on firearm safes and safety devices in Tennessee
Since November 2023 the retail sale of a firearm safe or a firearm safety device has been permanently exempt from Tennessee sales and use tax. A firearm safe is a locking container or enclosure, glass fronted cabinets excluded, made for the secure storage of one or more firearms; a safety device is one fitted to a gun so that it cannot be operated by anyone without access to it. An insurer reading a schedule usually wants to know both what the guns are worth and how they are kept, and in Tennessee the second half of that answer now costs less than it did.
What Tennessee clients say we are known for
Across 23 published Tennessee 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.
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
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
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:
Sold results, filtered tightly: completed listings from platforms like GunBroker, auction results from houses such as Rock Island, and dealer archives for the same make, model, caliber, barrel length, and finish, adjusted for condition and accessories. Listings that never sold are excluded because they do not demonstrate what buyers pay.
No. Many Tennessee estates proceed without a detailed inventory when the will waives it or all distributees consent, and no statute forces a licensed appraiser onto routine personal property. Values are still needed for accounting, taxes, and fair division, and courts can order an inventory or appraisal when heirs dispute a collection.
Originality. A firearm verified as factory-original, with matching serials and correct period markings, can bring multiples of a refinished or parts-swapped twin. The appraisal documents serial verification, component matching, and finish assessment because those findings, not appearance at a glance, position the gun against its comparables.
No. Tennessee phased out its inheritance tax and estate tax effective 2016, so guns passing at death face only federal estate tax when the estate exceeds federal thresholds. Fair market value documentation still matters for estate accounting, beneficiary distributions, and any federal Form 706 filing.
