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Personal property appraisals in Tennessee for donations, estate tax, divorce, and probate, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises antiques, jewelry, collectibles, fine art, and household contents across Tennessee, including Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT PERSONAL PROPERTY 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 standardsTwo Tennessee files, a line each. Patterns, counts, purchase records, and the owners' names stay in the file.
Insurance coverage
A full sterling silver flatware service in its anti tarnish chest, valued at replacement so the owner could schedule it.
Lender request
A compact off road teardrop travel trailer, valued at the lender's request while its owner was buying a house.
AppraiseItNow appraises household contents, sterling and silver services, jewelry, furniture, musical instruments, and collections in Tennessee for estates, charitable donations, divorce, and insurance. Photographs and paperwork carry most assignments, and we come to the house when a collection is large enough or a single piece important enough to be worth the trip.
Estates
Most Tennessee estate work arrives as a house rather than an object: kitchens, closets, garages, and then a few things worth stopping over. The report separates the two instead of averaging them together. Deciding what can honestly be grouped and what has to be looked at on its own is most of the judgement, and the schedule has to show which was which.
Silver and jewelry
A silver service is worth more as a pattern than as weight for as long as the pattern still trades, so dealer and auction evidence is tested before anything falls back on the melt. Condition, completeness, and whether the chest still holds the service it was made for all move the figure, so the file records them before any comparable is chosen.
Donations and divorce
A donation filing and a divided estate both get read by someone hunting for a reason to disagree, so every number carries the sales behind it. Firearms in the same household are handled on our Tennessee gun appraisal page. Where a gift or a division is likely to be examined, the effective date and the standard of value are settled in writing at the start rather than argued over at the end.
Instruments and collections
A playable vintage guitar, a banjo, or a shop built amplifier is priced against what similar instruments have actually sold for, not against a catalogue figure, and the original case and hardware move the number more than owners expect. Artwork is handled on our Tennessee antique artwork appraisal page.
Two Tennessee rules explain the silence: the tax roll passes over household property entirely, and in the one place the state does price personal effects, it prices them cautiously.
Property tax
No value
what Tennessee assigns non business personal property
Tangible personal property is classified by use and assessed at fifty five percent for public utility property, thirty percent for industrial and commercial property, and five percent for everything else. In practice, as the Comptroller's handbook puts it, all other tangible personal property is not taxed at all, because the statute deems it to have no value. Nothing on a Tennessee household's furniture, silver, or collections is assessed anywhere, so an estate, a donor, or an insurer begins with no public figure to work from.
Tangible Personal Property Handbook, on T.C.A. § 67-5-901(a)
Abandoned property
125% of face
when a coin counts as money, not a collectible
When a safe deposit box is opened for unpaid rent, its contents go to sale, and before that sale an independent appraiser, an auctioneer, or the bank may reject items as unsalable. Coins and currency with a face value above twenty dollars each are treated as sale proceeds rather than auctioned if they are worth no more than one hundred twenty five percent of face, and coins of twenty dollars or less go the same way at twice face. Any tangible item worth under twenty five dollars may be destroyed, so long as the total for one renter stays under two hundred fifty. It is the closest thing Tennessee has to a written test of when personal property is worth appraising at all.
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.
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:
No. Tennessee estates often proceed without a court-filed inventory when the will waives it or all beneficiaries consent, and no statute requires a licensed appraiser to value routine personal property for the court. The personal representative still needs defensible values for accounting, tax, and distribution, and courts can order an inventory or appraisal when disputes arise.
No. The state's licensing law covers real estate appraisers, and no Tennessee statute requires furniture, jewelry, vehicles, or collectibles in a probate or divorce matter to be valued by a state-licensed real estate appraiser. Courts accept valuations from qualified experts, so specialty experience and recognized appraisal standards are what carry weight.
Usually the date of the trial or final hearing. Tennessee courts equitably divide marital property and treat the evidentiary hearing as the default valuation point, with discretion to pick another date when values have shifted materially. We tie the appraisal's effective date to the date the court will use so the numbers match the legal snapshot.
The date of death, applied retrospectively. The scope, approaches, and comparable sales must reflect market conditions on that date rather than the day of inspection, because estate values feed tax and distribution decisions fixed at death. Valuing property as of today for a death months earlier is a frequent error that misstates the estate.
Against dealer-market benchmarks and auction evidence. Diamonds are checked to Rapaport or IDEX price sheets and dealer networks like Polygon, adjusted for lab grading, while signed pieces and colored stones lean on auction comparables. Grading reports from GIA or similar labs materially affect the conclusion, so they belong in the appraisal file with the item.
