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Personal property appraisals in Wyoming for donations, estate tax, divorce, and probate, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises furniture, jewelry, collectibles, art, and vehicles across Wyoming, including Cheyenne, Casper, and Laramie.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT PERSONAL PROPERTY APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, WYOMING COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
Wyoming's ranching heritage and outdoor culture mean Western art, Native American artifacts, historic firearms, and ranch-related personal property come up often, each needing its own comparable sales evidence. Three of the assets below link to a page written for Wyoming; the rest link to the appraisers who cover them nationwide.
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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 personal property in Wyoming for probate inventories and appraisement reports, charitable donations, divorce division, and insurance claims. Each file is built from photographs, receipts and schedules sent to us, and the report is written for whoever has to read it next.
Probate
A personal representative needs a value for each asset in the inventory as of the day the owner died, and for anything without a ready market, the reasoning behind that value in writing. We prepare what gets attached and filed.
Donations
Donated furnishings, tools or a collection are valued at what a buyer would actually pay for them second hand on the day of the gift, in the market that handles goods of that kind. Receipts and condition photographs do much of the work, and a donee's acknowledgement is not a value.
Claims and division
An insurance claim on contents asks what replacing them costs. A division asks what they would bring if they were sold, on the date the court uses. The two are rarely close, and the report says which one it develops and why that one fits the file.
The date a Wyoming value attaches to is set by the proceeding rather than by the calendar, which makes a retrospective date the ordinary case here instead of the exception. Getting it wrong is rarely caught until someone else reads the report.
Effective dates
We reconstruct the market as it stood on the day the file needs, from sales recorded around it, and say on the face of the report whether the date is current, retrospective or prospective. A value quietly built on today's prices is the error that costs an estate its filing.
Thin markets
Wyoming sales alone will not price a collection, so comparables come from the regional and national markets where the same objects sell, adjusted for what distance and shipping do to a price. Clocks, case furniture and similar pieces sit on our Wyoming antiques appraisal page, and a mixed household is often split between the two files.
Wyoming's probate code does not treat all personal property alike, and the sorting it does decides how much work each item needs.
Two tracks
A report each
is what Wyoming asks for on every estate asset with no readily determinable market value, with the appraiser's basis shown
As to assets listed in the inventory which have a readily determinable market value, the value of each asset as of the date of death is stated in writing by one disinterested person. As to assets which do not, the personal representative employs disinterested persons to determine the fair market value of each such asset as of the date of death, and a separate written report for each one, showing the appraiser's basis for arriving at the value, is attached to the report of appraisal filed under oath with the clerk of court. Different persons may be employed to value different assets.
Jewelry, art, collections and the contents of an outbuilding usually fall on the second track, which is why the reasoning has to be written out rather than condensed into a column of figures.
Late discoveries
One month
after property that no inventory mentions comes to light, the appraisement of it has to be on file
Whenever property not mentioned in any inventory comes to the possession or knowledge of the personal representative, it is appraised in the manner prescribed and an appraisement of it filed within one month after the discovery, and the making of that appraisement may be enforced after notice. A personal representative who neglects or refuses to file either the inventory or the appraisement within the time prescribed risks revocation of the letters and stays liable on the bond for injury to the estate.
A box of jewelry or a safe found while a house is being cleared starts that month running, whatever stage the rest of the administration has reached.
Creditor claims
$4,000
of household articles each occupant of a Wyoming residence may select and keep, at a value three sworn appraisers set
Furniture, bedding, provisions and other household articles of any kind or character as the debtor may select, not exceeding $4,000 in all, are exempt from levy or sale upon execution or attachment, and where two or more persons occupy the same residence each is entitled to a separate exemption. Necessary wearing apparel is exempt to $2,000, and jewelry of any type other than wedding rings is not necessary wearing apparel.
The value of the property a debtor selects is ascertained by the appraisement of three disinterested appraisers, selected and summoned by the officer and sworn to make a true appraisement. Which pieces fit under the figure is settled by those values, so the order a household is valued in changes what the family keeps.
What Wyoming clients say we are known for
Across 23 published Wyoming 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:
Because tax assessors and many lenders lean on the cost approach, which builds value from historical installed cost, index factors, and percent-good tables. Without invoices and acquisition data, that analysis loses precision, and owners commonly pay for the gap through weaker loan values or harder-to-contest assessments.
It is the specific date the value applies to, and USPAP and IRS standards require the report to identify it as current, retrospective, or prospective and align it with the intended use. A Wyoming estate needs date-of-death values, a divorce needs values near the division, and mismatching the date to the event is a frequent, avoidable error.
Failure to report taxable personal property to the county assessor is a misdemeanor in Wyoming, punishable by fines and potentially jail time. Accurate annual reporting, supported by defensible values for significant assets, is far cheaper than the penalties and estimated assessments that follow a missed filing.
Partly because W.S. 39-13-102(q)(i) makes all taxpayer returns and return information confidential, so the detailed listings, reported costs, and assessor schedules behind Wyoming valuations never become public market data. Thin public sales evidence in a lightly populated state compounds the gap. That scarcity is precisely why independent appraisals built on documented regional and national transactions carry weight here.