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Boat appraisals in Georgia for donations, insurance, estate tax, and divorce, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises sailboats, motorboats, pontoon boats, fishing boats, and personal watercraft across Georgia, including Atlanta, Savannah, and Augusta.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT BOAT APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, GEORGIA 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.
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 provides professional boat appraisals across Georgia for a wide range of purposes, including charitable donations, insurance coverage, estate tax reporting, and divorce proceedings. Whether you are donating a vessel to a nonprofit and need IRS-compliant documentation, securing or updating a marine insurance policy, settling an estate that includes watercraft, or dividing assets during a divorce, our credentialed appraisers deliver accurate, defensible valuations tailored to your specific situation. Georgia boat owners also rely on our appraisals for annual ad valorem property tax compliance, including completing Form PT-50M and supporting county tax assessor reviews.
AppraiseItNow serves clients throughout Georgia with both remote and onsite appraisal options, making it easy to get a certified valuation regardless of where your vessel is located or stored. Our appraisers can work from photographs, documentation, and vessel records for online engagements, or conduct in-person inspections at marinas, storage facilities, or private docks across the state. Learn more about our full boat appraisal services and how we approach marine valuations. We offer Fair Market Value (FMV), Replacement Value, Orderly Liquidation Value (OLV), Forced Liquidation Value (FLV), and Actual Cash Value (ACV) appraisals for various intended uses.
Our appraisers have experience valuing a wide variety of watercraft across Georgia's lakes, rivers, coastal waterways, and inland reservoirs. We appraise:
Georgia's extensive waterway system, including Lake Lanier, Lake Oconee, Lake Allatoona, and the coastal waters around Savannah and Brunswick, supports a diverse boating community with vessels ranging from small recreational craft to large offshore yachts. Whether your boat is a modest aluminum fishing vessel or a high-value luxury yacht, our appraisers apply the appropriate methodology and market data to produce a credible, well-supported valuation.
AppraiseItNow serves individual boat owners, estate attorneys, divorce attorneys, insurance professionals, financial advisors, nonprofit organizations, and county tax assessors throughout Georgia who need accurate, USPAP-compliant marine appraisals for legal, financial, or compliance purposes.
What clients say we are known for
Across 80+ published AppraiseItNow reviews the picture is consistent: every one is from a client who paid us for an appraisal, and 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.
I love the online appraisal format to give me a good idea of what my boat is worth without showing the boat. The appraisal fee is more than reasonable, and I love your professional service!
Boat Appraisal for Charitable Donation
We recently used AppraiseItNow for one of our clients and couldn’t be happier with the experience. The customer service was excellent, and Joe was quick to respond to all of our questions. He provided everything we needed promptly and made the process smooth from start to finish. Thank you!
Boat Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
AppraiseItNow delivered a fair, well-supported appraisal that met all required standards. Their team was professional, responsive, and fast throughout the process. I would gladly use them again.
Boat Appraisal for Charitable Donation
AppraiseItNow helped us appraise a very unique set of propulsion boats. Service was top notch and provided incredible value for the cost!
Boat Appraisal for Loan Collateral
AppraiseItNow was excellent to work with. They delivered exactly what I needed and were incredibly responsive throughout the process. I’d definitely recommend them!
Boat Appraisal for Insurance Claim
Very straightforward and efficient way to gain a quality certified boat appraisal. I will suggest AppraiseItNow to all my boating friends!
Boat Appraisal for Loan Collateral
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:
Verifiable history: ownership records, build sheets, equipment inventories, and provenance such as race wins or notable prior owners, plus evidence of quality restoration versus original condition. These factors measurably lift value for collectible or well-kept vessels, but appraisers only credit them when documents support the claims.
Often not. The J.D. Power (NADA) Marine guide, ABOS Marine Blue Book, and SoldBoats database each calculate values differently and can diverge significantly for the same vessel, which is why running a single report or anchoring on an optimistic listing leads to underinsurance or overpricing. We cross-check guides against actual closed sales.
As marital property divided under equitable distribution, since Georgia is not a community property state. Courts commonly value assets at the time of trial unless another date is set, so a current fair market value appraisal of the vessel, grounded in sold comparables rather than asking prices, is what the court needs.
On Form PT-50M, the marine personal property return, filed with the county where the boat is functionally located for at least 184 days a year. The owner declares the fair market value of the boat and motors as of January 1, subject to review by the Board of Tax Assessors, and the trailer is excluded because it is taxed separately through vehicle tag registration.
No. TAVT applies to titled motor vehicles, while boats are generally non-titled property in Georgia, so they fall under the marine ad valorem rules and ordinary sales and use tax instead. Registration runs through the Department of Natural Resources on three-year cycles with length-based fees, and sales or transfers must be reported within 15 days.
