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Equipment appraisals in Missouri for donations, lending, M&A, and financial reporting, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises manufacturing equipment, construction machinery, agricultural equipment, industrial tools, and fleet vehicles across Missouri, including Kansas City, St. Louis, and Springfield.
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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.
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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 machinery and equipment in Missouri for donated assets, collateral and loan files, acquisitions and disposals, audit support, estate administration, and appeals against an assessment. Most assignments are reviewed from records and photographs, and a plant or a full facility is walked in person when a project is large enough to need it. The business that owns the assets is appraised separately by our Missouri business valuations.
Agricultural machinery
Separator hours, header configuration, tire condition and where in the calendar a sale lands move a combine's number further than its model designation does.
Material handling
A warehouse of trucks of one make sells differently in one lot than unit by unit. The report says which assumption produced the total, because the two are not close.
Process equipment
Stainless process equipment is frequently worth more where it stands than on a trailer, so removal, utility connections and what it takes to put the line back into service belong in the premise.
One machine can honestly carry several numbers in Missouri, and which applies is decided by who will read the report. A lender wants to know what a quick sale brings. A donor needs what a willing buyer would pay. An appeal needs value on the first of January. That choice is made before the research begins, because it governs which sales count as comparable.
Lending
Collateral work is written to a liquidation premise, and the report names which one, how long a sale was assumed to take, and what removal would cost out of the proceeds.
Obsolescence
Functional and economic obsolescence are measured apart from wear. A press in good order that nobody tools for any more is priced by what its market has become, not by its condition.
Missouri is unusual in putting the arithmetic in the statute itself. The schedule is the starting point for every business machine in the state, and the same statute says what it takes to move off it.
Assessments
Presumed correct
is the standing Missouri gives the statutory schedule figure until an appraisal disproves it
Section 137.122 RSMo puts a depreciation table into the statute and directs that "each assessor shall use the standardized schedule of depreciation in this section to determine the assessed valuation" of depreciable business personal property, working from "original cost," defined as "the price the current owner, the taxpayer, paid for the item without freight, installation, or sales or use tax," over a recovery period taken from the federal cost recovery life tables. Subsection 4 then sets the burden. The resulting estimate "shall be presumed to be correct," but "may be disproved by substantial and persuasive evidence of the true value in money, including, but not limited to, an appraisal of the tangible personal property specifically utilizing generally accepted appraisal techniques, contained in a narrative appraisal report in accordance with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, or by proof of economic or functional obsolescence or evidence of excessive physical deterioration." Few states name the instrument they will listen to this plainly.
Idle machines
Not in use
is the only condition under which Missouri lets scrap value answer the assessment question
The same subsection of section 137.122 RSMo closes a door equipment owners reach for often: "the salvage or scrap value of depreciable tangible personal property may only be considered if the property is not in use as of the assessment date." A press that is obsolete, unsupported and uneconomic to run is still assessed as something more than metal if it was in service on the first of January. Where a plant is winding down, that one sentence decides whether an appeal is about the premise of value or only about the amount. It is also why an appraisal written for a Missouri assessment records what was actually operating on the assessment date rather than what the fixed asset ledger still lists.
Farm machinery
12 percent
of true value is where Missouri assesses farm machinery, a different share from the rest of a business's equipment
Section 137.115 RSMo sets a general assessment share for personal property and then carves out subclasses at their own rates, among them "Livestock, twelve percent" and "Farm machinery, twelve percent," with grain and other agricultural crops in an unmanufactured condition at "one-half of one percent." A tractor, a combine or an irrigation system therefore joins the roll at a far smaller share than a comparable machine on a factory floor carries. On a Missouri farm the classification argument is frequently worth more than the valuation argument, and because the statute turns on what the machinery is and how it is used, the appraisal describes the machine and its use plainly and leaves the class to the assessor.
What Missouri clients say we are known for
Across 17 published Missouri 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.
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
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
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
Affordable and reliable, with fast service and always responsive to my messages and questions. They delivered my appraisal on time without a glitch. 100% Recommended! I wouldn’t use anyone else for my business. Thank you, Joe — you’re great!
Machinery & Equipment Appraisal for Bankruptcy Filing
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 general rule sets a term. Missouri fixes one only in narrow places: the grain warehouse licensing rule, 2 CSR 60-4.130, accepts an appraisal of fixed assets "for a period of four (4) years from the date of the appraisal," allows an updated appraisal to be requested earlier if value appears to have fallen significantly, and will not accept one at all "for a period of one (1) year after that assets are purchased." Outside rules like that one, the party relying on the report sets its own expectation of how recent the effective date has to be.
Assessors annually list tangible personal property and assess it at one-third of true value as of January 1, applying statutory depreciation schedules to many classes. Those schedules are blunt instruments, so an independent appraisal is the standard way to contest an assessment that has drifted from market reality.
For each item: make, model, serial number, year, capacity and configuration, purchase date and cost, condition, and maintenance history. That documentation lets the appraiser match each machine to genuine comparables and support remaining economic life, rather than defaulting to conservative assumptions.
Mainly to complete production lines and asset groups that generate identifiable earnings as a unit. For individual machines, the market and cost approaches govern, so a valuation quoting discounted cash flow for a single standalone machine deserves skepticism.