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Personal property appraisals in Wisconsin for donations, estate tax, divorce, and probate, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises antiques, jewelry, collectibles, furniture, and fine art across Wisconsin, including Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT PERSONAL PROPERTY APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, WISCONSIN 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.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member with 30 years in the trade, from running estate sales and an auction gallery to appraising luxury apparel, furniture, artwork, antiques, and business assets, primarily for IRS tax filings.
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.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member specializing in Asian art, with a Master's from SOAS and a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art. Ashley chairs the ISA's Antiques, Furnishings, and Decorative Arts committee and appraises for charitable donation, insurance, and equitable distribution.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
International Society of AppraisersAccredited Member
Certified Appraisers Guild of AmericaCertified Appraiser
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsTwo Wisconsin donations, a line each. What the donors paid, what the rooms held, and who received the gift all stay in the file. Both were valued while the property was still in the house, which is the only moment the evidence is complete.
Charitable donation
Counters cut to fit one West Bend kitchen, taken out during a remodel and given away, valued as a single gift for the donor's deduction.
Noncash gift
Furniture out of one Madison home, photographed and listed by the owner before the truck came, valued together for a noncash deduction.
AppraiseItNow appraises antiques, jewelry, silver, coins, firearms, sports memorabilia, trading cards, furniture, and whole household contents in Wisconsin for charitable gifts, estate settlement, divorce, and insurance. Most of it runs online from the owner's own photographs and list. An appraiser goes out to the property where the sheer volume of a collection, or what it would take to move it safely, rules that out. Firearms on their own are covered on our Wisconsin gun appraisal page.
Charitable gifts
A donated household is valued at what the property would genuinely change hands for in the market it would sell in, which is rarely close to what any of it originally cost. The conclusion is carried by sales of comparable goods, not by receipts, and the effective date is the day the property left the donor's hands.
Estates and divorce
When contents are being split, both sides read the same report, and anything asserted without a source turns into the argument. Grouping the ordinary furnishings and pulling out the few pieces that carry real money keeps the disagreement narrow and keeps the cost of the appraisal proportionate to what is in dispute.
Insurance
Scheduling a collection means pricing what buying the equivalent again would take through the dealers and specialists who actually sell it. Done in advance that is a document an adjuster can work from. Done after a fire it is a reconstruction from memory, and the burden of proving what was there falls on the owner.
Both limits are aggregate figures, and neither of them can be answered without a value for everything sitting underneath.
Creditor exemptions
$12,000
the aggregate ceiling on exempt Wisconsin consumer goods
Wisconsin exempts a debtor's consumer goods: household goods and furnishings, wearing apparel, keepsakes, jewelry and other articles of personal adornment, appliances, books, musical instruments, firearms, sporting goods, animals, and other tangible personal property held primarily for the personal, family or household use of the debtor or a dependent, not to exceed twelve thousand dollars in aggregate value. Because the ceiling is aggregate rather than per item, the exemption is only as good as the values standing behind it, and the categories it names are the ones people most often assume are worth less than they are.
Small estates
$50,000
the ceiling for a Wisconsin summary assignment
A Wisconsin court assigns an estate summarily, without appointing a personal representative, where the estate less the debts for which any property in it stands as security does not exceed fifty thousand dollars in value and cannot be summarily settled under the neighbouring section. The petition has to carry a detailed statement of all property subject to administration, including any encumbrance, lien, or other charge on each item. Whether an estate sits under that line is a valuation question before it is a procedural one, and a household of contents is usually the part nobody has a figure for.
What Wisconsin clients say we are known for
Across 23 published Wisconsin 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 much research is visible in the report, and how quickly we answer.
AppraiseItNow Inc. is the best company I was lucky to find by accident. I was looking for someone to appraise cabinets for a donation to charity. I asked for multiple referrals, called multiple appraisal services, etc., and no one could help me. I found AppraiseItNow and from the moment I started working with them, they were wonderful! Joe guided me on what I needed to send him, what needed to be done and stayed in touch with me the entire time. Their customer service is OUTSTANDING and a welcome surprise in today’s world where good customer service is an anomaly! They returned an appraisal in a timely manner, it was clear, concise, cost-effective and exactly what I needed. They followed up with me multiple times to ensure that I received it and everything was OK. My CPA is also thrilled to have them as an accredited appraisal service he can use for other clients. I rarely leave reviews, but I could not pass giving them 5 stars and I’d give 10 if possible! THANK YOU JOE AND ALL AT APPRAISEITNOW!!👊🏼
Personal Property Appraisal for Charitable Donation
I used AppraiseItNow for the first time last month and I was extremely pleased with the results. I needed an appraisal done for insurance purposes and the level of detail about each of my antique furniture pieces was thorough and very helpful in my being able to get the highest amount possible from my insurance company for the antique items that were damaged. I could see that they spent time making sure that the information she included was correct and current for my antique furniture items in the current market. The team responded to my emails timely to answer any questions I had. I would highly recommend Appraise It Now to get a thorough and professional appraisal done on antique items. I do intend to use them again for other antique furniture and jewelry that I have. Job well done! 😃🤗
Antique Furniture Appraisal for Insurance Claim
It is a pleasure to work with Joe and his team. They communicate every step along the way and made the process simple for us to have more than 35 firearms appraised. It was all done in a timely manner and the final report is easy to understand. I highly recommend their services.
Gun Appraisal for Probate
I was skeptical at first, but the company exceeded all of my expectations. The team responded quickly to every question, and the service was excellent. They’re now my go to source for my collection. I’ve used them twice already, and I plan to use them several more times.
Firearms Appraisal for Personal Use
Joe made the process to have my piece of furniture appraised extremely easy, efficient and quick. My experience was great and I'd recommend AppraiseItNow to anyone looking for an appraisal.
Furniture Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
I asked AppraiseItNow to value a piece of sports memorabilia for purposes of a charitable donation. The item is rarely sold. Their research unearthed an important recent sale of a similar item, which I had not found previously, and which the first appraiser I used had not found either. AppraiseItNow was a good deal more expensive than the first service, but they crafted a detailed report in which I have much more confidence. They also helped me make sure the correct tax forms are used. Thank you!
Sports Memorabilia Appraisal for Charitable Donation
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:
Because condition grading on scales like PSA 1 through 10 produces exponential, not linear, price differences, especially at the top grades. The same Brewers or Packers rookie card can be worth many multiples more at PSA 9 than PSA 7, which is why we match comparables grade for grade rather than averaging across conditions.
Detailed provenance and, ideally, photo-matching or documentation tying the item to specific games or events. A jersey attributed to a player is worth far less than one photo-matched to a particular game, so the strength of the documentation directly sets the ceiling on the value conclusion.
Noncash charitable contributions of sports memorabilia over $5,000 require a qualified appraisal attached to IRS Form 8283, and donations over $500,000 require attaching the full appraisal itself. Wisconsin collectors donating to museums, schools, or charities should line up the appraisal before completing the gift.
No, Wisconsin currently imposes no state estate or inheritance tax, so only the federal estate tax applies, and only above the federal threshold. The collection still needs date-of-death fair market values for the probate inventory and for basis records when heirs later sell.
