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Equipment appraisals in New Hampshire 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 New Hampshire, including Manchester, Nashua, and Concord.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, NEW HAMPSHIRE 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 New Hampshire for asset based lending, for mergers and acquisitions, for charitable gifts, for financial reporting and for assets divided in a dispute. The work runs from one machine on a shop floor to every asset in a plant, and in each case the answer rests on what comparable units have actually sold for.
Shop floor machinery
The machine shops along the Merrimack valley run equipment that holds value long past its book life, and the used market for it is national. Sold listings and auction results for the same configuration are what set the figure.
Construction and site work
A contractor rarely needs one number. The fleet is valued unit by unit and then as a group, and road going trucks and trailers in the same yard are read as New Hampshire vehicles instead.
The purpose decides the standard before anything is inspected. A loan, a gift, a buyout and a plant that is closing each ask a different question of the same assets, and the figure that answers one of them will not answer another.
Liquidation value
Pulled out of the building and sold inside a set period, either with time to find the right buyer or without it. Those two figures sit below continued use value, and they are the ones a secured lender works from.
Continued use
Installed, powered and producing, with freight and installation inside the number. Donation paperwork and a purchase price allocation both start here, and the distance down to liquidation value is often wide.
Nothing has to be rebuilt from memory. Asset lists, invoices, service logs and clear photographs carry most of what a report needs, and an appraiser comes to the floor when condition is contested or the plant is large.
What we ask for
Purchase invoices, the asset register, maintenance files and photographs of plates and wear. Where a list has drifted out of date, we reconcile it against what is actually standing on the floor.
Inspection
Large projects and contested values get an appraiser on site. A short list of standard machines in known condition is usually carried by records and images alone.
Two New Hampshire rules pull recorded cost away from market value in opposite directions. One limits how fast a machine can be written off against the state’s profits tax. The other prices a dealer’s unsold inventory by formula when a franchise ends.
Depreciation
$500,000
is the most New Hampshire allows as a Section 179 expense deduction, whatever the federal return claimed
For the Business Profits Tax, RSA 77-A:3-a caps the expense deduction permitted under Section 179 of the Internal Revenue Code at $500,000 for property placed in service on or after January 1, 2018, and RSA 77-A:3-b applies the Code without section 168(k), so federal bonus depreciation is added back. A New Hampshire business therefore carries machinery on a schedule that matches neither its federal basis nor its market value. Depreciated book cost is a record of what the tax law allowed, not an opinion of what a buyer would pay, which is why a lender, a buyer or a donee asks for a separate valuation.
Dealer inventory
36 months
is how far back a terminated New Hampshire dealer’s equipment invoices reach for repurchase
RSA 357-C:1 defines equipment to include farm and utility tractors, forestry equipment, industrial equipment, construction equipment, farm implements, farm machinery, yard and garden equipment, attachments, accessories and repair parts. When a franchise ends, RSA 357-C:7, VI requires the manufacturer to repurchase new, unsold, undamaged and complete inventory at dealer cost plus the manufacturer’s charges, less allowances already received, with parts taken back at dealer cost in their original resalable packaging. Motor vehicles reach back twenty four months and equipment is subject to a thirty six month limitation. That is a formula rather than a market test, so a dealer, a lender or a receiver still needs the open market figure beside it.
What New Hampshire clients say we are known for
Across 17 published New Hampshire 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:
Asset-level detail: make, model, serial number, year, capacity, configuration, purchase date and cost, condition, maintenance history, and remaining economic life. Credible market and cost analyses depend on accurate specifications and condition ratings, because the adjustments for wear and obsolescence flow directly from them. Thin documentation weakens the value conclusion.
In municipalities that adopt the requirement, yes. Form PA-28, the Inventory of Taxable Property, must be filed with municipal assessing officials by April 15 under RSA 74:7, and it can cover certain categories of taxable personal property. Late filing or non-filing can affect how the municipality proceeds with assessment.
Selectively. For an individual machine, the market and cost approaches are generally more appropriate, but the income approach is conceptually applied to combined asset groups such as production lines where an identifiable income stream attaches to the whole set. We select the approach that fits how the equipment actually generates value.
Generally no. New Hampshire is among the states with no general tangible personal property tax, so machinery, equipment, and fixtures avoid the annual assessments common elsewhere; utility property is the exception, taxed at the state level under RSA 83-F. Equipment values in New Hampshire matter instead for lending, insurance, estates, transactions, and litigation.
Truck-tractors are titled once gross weight exceeds 18,000 pounds, which sweeps much road-going heavy equipment such as Peterbilt, Mack, Kenworth, and Freightliner units into the state title system. A title anchors identity and ownership for those assets, while off-road machines rely on serial numbers, purchase records, and maintenance files for appraisal documentation.
