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Equipment appraisals in Nevada for donations, lending, M&A, and financial reporting, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises industrial equipment, manufacturing machinery, construction equipment, agricultural machinery, and fleet vehicles across Nevada, including Las Vegas, Reno, and Henderson.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, NEVADA 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.
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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 Nevada for asset based lending and SBA financing, charitable gifts, company sales and partner buyouts, insurance schedules and losses, bankruptcy and estate administration, and financial reporting. Where the equipment is being valued as part of a whole company rather than on its own, that conclusion is the subject of our Nevada business valuations, and the two pieces of work are built to sit together.
Hospitality
Rotating rack ovens, blast chillers, walk ins and hood systems hold value unevenly. Installed value with the line working is a different figure from what the same list brings on a liquidation truck.
Industrial
Crushers, loaders and machine tools leave Nevada routinely, so the comparables come from wherever that class of machine actually sells, with freight, rigging and reinstallation treated as real costs rather than rounding. Remote site equipment is valued with the cost of getting it off the site in view.
Gaming floors
Gaming devices are the one category in Nevada where the law, and not the condition report, sets the size of the buyer pool. A floor of machines is valued inside that constraint, cabinet by cabinet.
Owners generally arrive with a depreciation schedule, and it is the wrong starting point twice over: book value answers an accounting question, and the taxable figure a county computes answers a tax one. Both are evidence about cost, and neither is a market value.
Lenders
Orderly and forced liquidation premises differ only by the time allowed to find buyers, and on equipment heavy Nevada borrowers that gap is what decides the advance rate. Both are reported when the credit file needs to see the range.
Owners and estates
A gift, a death, a buyout or a closing each fixes its own date, and equipment values move enough with the auction calendar that pricing one on a later day invites a challenge. Retrospective work is normal here, and the report says what the market looked like on the date in question.
Two Nevada rules reach equipment values from opposite directions. One decides how much of a trade's tools survive a judgment, which turns each machine's value into the deciding number. The other restricts who may lawfully buy a particular class of Nevada equipment at all.
Judgments
$10,000
is the ceiling on the trade equipment a Nevada judgment debtor keeps, which most single machines pass on their own
NRS 21.090(1)(d) exempts from execution "professional libraries, equipment, supplies, and the tools, inventory, instruments and materials used to carry on the trade or business of the judgment debtor for the support of the judgment debtor and his or her family not to exceed $10,000 in value." Farm property sits on its own line, with "farm trucks, farm stock, farm tools, farm equipment, supplies and seed" exempt to $4,500. Because the exemption is a value ceiling rather than a list of protected items, what each machine is worth decides what a business keeps: one late model skid steer or one CNC lathe can absorb the whole allowance, leaving the rest of the shop exposed. Creditor and debtor arguments in Nevada therefore tend to turn on per item values, which is the level a report here has to be written at.
Gaming equipment
Two years
after a Nevada licensee stops doing business is the window to sell its own gaming devices, and only in a manner the State approves
NRS 463.650(1) makes it unlawful for any person, "either as owner, lessee or employee, whether for hire or not, to operate, carry on, conduct or maintain any form of manufacture, selling or distribution of any gaming device, cashless wagering system or interactive gaming system for use or play in Nevada without first procuring and maintaining all required federal, state, county and municipal licenses." A licensee may dispose of its own devices, including slot machines, by sale "in a manner approved by the Board" within two years after it ceases business or upon specific approval, and in bankruptcy, or where a lender forecloses on devices pledged as security, that disposition can be authorized without a distributor's license. The practical effect on value is direct. A floor of machines is not offered to whoever wants one. It is offered inside a licensed channel, on a clock, and a value developed from open market listings for similar machines in states without those rules would overstate what the floor can actually realize.
What Nevada clients say we are known for
Across 17 published Nevada 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 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
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
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 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
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:
Primarily through the market and cost approaches. We compare your equipment to documented transactions from auction platforms like BidSpotter, IronPlanet, and MachineryTrader and adjust for age, hours, configuration, and location, then cross-check with a cost analysis that starts at current replacement cost and deducts physical, functional, and economic depreciation.
No. Nevada's personal property tax system derives taxable value from acquisition cost, acquisition year, expected life, and a cost-conversion factor per the state's Personal Property Manual, with businesses filing annual declarations (due July 31 in Clark County). That formula-driven figure serves tax administration; it is not a substitute for a market-based appraisal when you are selling, financing, or litigating over equipment.
No. NRS 361.221 bars a person from performing appraiser duties for the state or its political subdivisions without a valid appraiser's certificate from the Department; a noncertified employee may collect data, but a certified appraiser must review it. That rule governs government assessment work, while private equipment appraisals are judged on methodology and documentation.
Generally not at private sale. NRS 148.170 bars the court from confirming a private sale of personal property unless the offer represents fair market value and the property was appraised within one year before the sale; otherwise a new appraisement is required, with waiver available only in narrow circumstances. A stale valuation can stall an estate sale.
Yes. NRS 361.068 exempts business inventories held for sale, consumable supplies, livestock, certain agricultural equipment and pipe, and fine art for public display, among other categories. Qualifying assets sit entirely outside the tax base, which changes the annual carrying cost picture for equipment-heavy operations.
