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Equipment appraisals in Florida 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 Florida, including Miami, Orlando, and Tampa.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, FLORIDA COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
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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.
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The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow appraises agricultural equipment in Florida for loan and collateral files, for estate and gift tax filings, for partnership changes and buyouts, for insurance schedules and for claims after a storm. A file is built from serial plates, hour meters and service records, with a visit to the operation where the project is large enough to need one.
Specialized iron
Citrus and vegetable operations run specialized sprayers, harvest aids, field trailers and packing equipment whose buyers are mostly inside Florida, while cab tractors, loaders and skid steers sell to anyone anywhere. The first group is priced from sales in state, the second against national results.
Irrigation
Irrigation is part machine and part installation. A pump and motor can be pulled and sold, while buried drip and a pivot's foundation usually cannot, so a report separates what a buyer would carry away from what stays with the land.
The premise follows the file. A lender wants to know what the iron would bring if it had to be sold and how long selling would take. An estate wants fair market value on the date of death. A buyout wants that standard on the day the partners parted. A claim wants the figures either side of the event.
Lending
Orderly liquidation and forced liquidation are two different numbers for the same tractor, and the gap widens on equipment with a thin resale pool. A report states the premise it reaches and the exposure time behind it instead of leaving a lender to guess.
Casualty
Federal casualty treatment works from the value immediately before and immediately after a loss, so a flooded sprayer needs two figures and a record of what the water actually did. Photographs taken before any repair are usually the most useful thing an owner can hand over.
An operation's value rarely stops at the machines with hour meters. What gets towed, hauled and parked under the pole barn sits on the same schedule, and Florida treats several of those differently from a road vehicle.
Trailers
Gooseneck and flatbed trailers, bin trailers and field wagons move with the fleet and are valued with it. Where a trailer is the whole question rather than one line in a fleet, our Florida trailer work covers it on its own.
Nurseries and sod
Sod harvesters, tree spades, potting lines and shade house hardware turn up constantly in Florida work and seldom in national price guides, so their figures come from dealer evidence and completed auction results in the Southeast.
Florida taxes farm equipment unlike anything else a farm buys, leaves much of it off the road entirely, and caps what an obsolete machine may be assessed at. Each of the three moves a number on a schedule.
Sales tax
Exempt
is how Florida treats power farm equipment used only on a farm or in a forest
Florida does not impose its sales tax on the sale, rental, lease, use, consumption, repair or storage for use in the state of power farm equipment or irrigation equipment, including replacement parts and accessories, where that equipment is used exclusively on a farm or in a forest in the agricultural production of crops or products of the industries the statute lists, or for fire prevention and suppression work for those crops. Harvesting does not take in processing activities, the exemption is not forfeited by moving equipment between farms or forests, and it is allowed only where the buyer, renter or lessee signs a certificate that the equipment will be used as the subsection requires. That matters to a cost approach and to an insurance schedule, because the cost of putting an equivalent machine back on a Florida farm does not carry the tax another buyer would pay.
Obsolete machines
Salvage value
is the most Florida assesses farm equipment that can no longer do its job
For ad valorem purposes, agricultural equipment located on property classified as agricultural that is no longer usable for its intended purpose is deemed to have a market value no greater than its value for salvage. That is an assessment rule and not a market rule, and the difference is the whole point: a county return built on it is not evidence of what a working machine would sell for, so a schedule of assessed values is a poor stand in for an appraisal when a lender, a court or a tax filing asks what a fleet is worth.
On the road
3 days
is how long a newly bought Florida farm tractor may use the road on a bill of sale
Florida exempts from registration, license tax and plate display a motor vehicle operated principally on a farm, grove or orchard in agricultural or horticultural pursuits that uses the roads only incidentally in going between headquarters and the property or from one property to another, along with an unpowered vehicle used principally to haul plows, harrows, fertilizer distributors, spray machines and other farm or grove equipment. Either may also use the road for up to three days while moving from an auction site or other place of purchase to the buyer's property, provided the operator carries a bill of sale. The exemption does not reach the laws on tires. Because none of this leaves a state ownership record behind, a Florida equipment file is built from serial plates, invoices and that bill of sale rather than from a title.
What Florida clients say we are known for
Across 17 published Florida 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.
So easy to work with! They were quick, fair on price, and super helpful through the process. Definitely recommend!
Machinery & Equipment Appraisal for Charitable Donation
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
I needed a rapid turnaround appraisal on a charitable donation. The team here was able to review and complete my appraisal in under 24 hours, the same day that I sent the request in. Very impressive and incredibly helpful!
Machinery & 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
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:
Mostly through the market approach: recent sales of similar machinery from IronGuides, auction records, and online sales, adjusted for age, condition, features, and location. Closed-sale evidence beats listed asking prices, and for specialized equipment with thin markets we support the conclusion with a cost approach based on replacement cost less depreciation.
Make, model, and serial number for each machine, plus hours, attachments, configuration, and maintenance history. Missing serial numbers, unknown hours, or undocumented rebuilds force more conservative estimates because the appraiser cannot support adjustments with confidence, so good records directly protect your value conclusion.
No, and confusing them is the most costly owner mistake. Replacement cost, asking prices, and insurance values can materially overstate what older or specialized equipment would actually bring in the market once depreciation and obsolescence are accounted for. A proper report states which value premise it concludes, such as fair market value versus liquidation value.
Equipment used in a business must be reported to the county property appraiser each year on Form DR-405, due April 1, listing each item with its cost and the owner's estimate of current fair market value. An independent appraisal is optional but can serve as evidence if you contest the assessed value.
