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Personal property appraisals in Florida for donations, estate tax, divorce, and probate, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises furniture, jewelry, collectibles, art, and vehicles across Florida, including Miami, Orlando, and Tampa.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT PERSONAL PROPERTY APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, FLORIDA COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
Florida's coastal lifestyle, its concentration of high-net-worth households, and the volume of estate settlements make it one of the most active states for personal property appraisal work, from waterfront estates in Palm Beach to retirement communities in Sarasota and private residences in Jacksonville. Three of the assets below link to a page written for Florida; the rest link to the appraisers who cover them nationwide.
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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 standardsAppraiseItNow appraises furniture, antiques, art, silver and whole household contents in Florida for charitable deductions, probate, divorce and insurance claims. Every figure comes from completed sales of comparable property in the market where that kind of thing changes hands, which for most household goods is a resale market rather than a shop window. A list and photographs open most files, and a visit is arranged when the house is too full or too fragile to be covered any other way.
Charitable deductions
A deduction rests on what the property would bring in the resale market at the moment it was handed over, supported by sales a reviewer can look up. Where a house empties in several trips, each trip carries its own date instead of one tidy average, because the market for used furniture does not stand still across a season. Batches given to different charities are kept apart in the same way.
Estates and probate
The contents of a home are named and valued as of the date of death, itemwise where the pieces deserve it and by category where they do not. The research stays with the file, so an executor, a beneficiary or an examiner who questions one line a year later can be shown exactly what stood behind it.
Three Florida donation files, reduced to the city, the property and the standard of value. Nothing that would identify an owner appears here, and the figures we concluded stay in the reports where they belong.
Charitable donation
An octagonal walnut table with burl inlay and a slant top oak desk with its original hardware, valued together for a donation.
Charitable donation
A rebuilt baby grand piano with ivory keys, a campaign desk and its matching credenza, valued as the donor gave them away.
Charitable donation
An egg chair, adirondack chairs, a woven rattan armoire, a dining table with its chairs and a daybed, valued in one lot.
Three Florida rules reach household property directly. One carves the furniture out of the estate altogether, one pays the family while administration runs, and one decides whether the estate is administered the long way at all.
Exempt property
$20,000
of household furniture passes beyond the reach of creditors
Household furniture, furnishings and appliances in the decedent’s usual place of abode pass to the surviving spouse, or to the children where there is no spouse, up to a net value of $20,000 as of the date of death, along with two motor vehicles under 15,000 pounds gross weight. That property is exempt from claims against the estate and is excluded from the estate’s value before residuary, intestate or elective shares are worked out. The entitlement is waived unless a petition is filed by the later of four months after service of the notice of administration or forty days after a proceeding over the will ends. Net value is a valuation question, which is where an appraisal earns its place.
Family allowance
$18,000
is the ceiling on a Florida family allowance during administration
A surviving spouse and the lineal heirs the decedent was supporting are entitled to a reasonable allowance in money out of the estate for maintenance during administration, as a lump sum or in installments, and the total may not exceed $18,000. It is not charged against anything else passing to them unless the will says otherwise, so what the household property is worth still decides what the heirs eventually divide.
Summary administration
$75,000
of estate subject to administration opens the short path
Summary administration is available where the value of the entire estate subject to administration in Florida, less the value of property exempt from the claims of creditors, does not exceed $75,000, or where the decedent has been dead for more than two years. Because exempt property comes out of that calculation first, the value put on the furniture can decide which side of the line an estate sits on.
What Florida clients say we are known for
Across 23 published Florida 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
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 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
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:
Nearly everything that drives value: maker, purity, origin, and date. Marks like STERLING, 925, or 800, town marks, and date letters are decoded piece by piece, and a credible report photographs each mark and records pattern, maker, weight, and condition in a table. Generic descriptions without hallmark documentation weaken the value opinion.
At fair market value as of the date of death, reported on the probate inventory (Form 1.944) within 60 days of letters of administration. For federal tax purposes, high-value art and jewelry items around $50,000 or more can draw IRS Art Advisory Panel review, so significant silver services deserve documented, comparable-supported values rather than scrap estimates.
No. Insurance scheduling typically uses replacement cost based on specialty silver dealers and current retail offerings, which usually runs higher than auction fair market value, while melt value only sets the floor. A report that simply applies a percentage over melt without current replacement pricing leaves Florida owners underinsured on rare makers and patterns.
No. Section 193.052 of the Florida Statutes requires tangible personal property returns to reflect the owner's own estimate of fair market value, and no statute mandates a licensed professional to complete the filing. A documented appraisal still earns its cost when the assessed value looks wrong, since the county appraiser values the roll by mass-appraisal methods rather than item-level review.
Realized results from major auction houses such as Sotheby's, Christie's, and Bonhams, plus completed online marketplace listings, are the standard comparable evidence for antique silver. Asking prices are excluded, and for rare makers the collectible premium those records reveal can run far beyond intrinsic metal value, which is why scrap-based estimates undervalue important pieces.