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Personal property appraisals in Utah for donations, estate tax, divorce, and probate, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises antiques, jewelry, collectibles, fine art, and furniture across Utah, including Salt Lake City, Provo, and Ogden.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT PERSONAL PROPERTY APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, UTAH 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 standardsAppraiseItNow appraises Utah household contents, antique silver, jewelry, coins, fine art, and furniture for charitable gifts, estate and trust administration, divorce, and insurance schedules.
Charitable gifts
What matters is the price the property would have brought at the time of the gift, evidenced by completed sales of like pieces. Groups of similar objects are priced as the return will report them rather than one line per object. Condition, marks, and any repairs are recorded as they are, because the same object in two conditions is two different figures.
Estates and trusts
A personal representative needs a figure beside the contents of a house as of a single date. We work through a household in categories and give the money-carrying pieces their own analysis, with a separate opinion for a painting that needs one.
The same shelf of objects can be asked for three different figures inside a year, and they are not interchangeable.
Divorce
Dividing property takes an agreed figure as of one date, and which date that is belongs to the court rather than to us. We value to the date we are handed and show the evidence standing behind each line.
Insurance schedules
A schedule is written against the market an owner would have to buy in, which is why a rider figure and an estate figure for one brooch are different numbers doing different jobs.
Trust and gift planning
Property moved into a trust or given away during a lifetime is valued as of the day it moves, and that number is read again when the asset is sold or the estate closes. The comparable sales behind it stay in the file. Anything given in parts over several years is valued at each handover rather than once at the end.
Two Utah rules turn the contents of a house into numbers: what a surviving family takes ahead of the creditors, and what a creditor may not touch at all.
Probate
$15,000
the exempt property a Utah surviving spouse takes in household furniture, automobiles, furnishings, appliances, and personal effects
On top of the homestead allowance, a Utah decedent's surviving spouse is entitled from the estate to a value of up to $15,000, in excess of any security interests in the items, in household furniture, automobiles, furnishings, appliances, and personal effects. Where there is no surviving spouse the children take the same value jointly. Where the estate does not hold that much exempt property, or the chattels selected are encumbered, other assets of the estate make up the difference.
Those rights come ahead of all claims against the estate, so the selection is made in values: which pieces, at what figures, add up to the allowance. That is an appraisal question before it is a distribution question.
Creditor claims
$1,000
the aggregate Utah exemption for heirlooms, and the same figure again for sofas, for tables, and for books and instruments
Utah's exemption list protects a set of ordinary things outright: one washer, one dryer, one refrigerator, one freezer, one stove, one microwave oven, one sewing machine, all carpets in use, all beds and bedding, and all wearing apparel, which the statute defines to exclude jewelry and furs. Works of art depicting or produced by the debtor or the debtor's resident family are exempt as well, unless held as part of a trade or business.
Everything else is capped. Sofas and chairs for one household, dining and kitchen tables and chairs, animals, books and musical instruments, and heirlooms or other items of particular sentimental value are each exempt up to an aggregate of $1,000, with $5,000 for the tools of a trade and $3,000 for one motor vehicle. Jewelry, furs, and heirlooms therefore have to be valued piece by piece before anyone knows what sits inside the exemption.
What Utah clients say we are known for
Across 24 published Utah 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.
The AppraiseItNow team was great to work with. We hired them to appraise some precious metals for a charitable donation, and they were very helpful throughout the process. They provided clear instructions on how to submit photos and item descriptions, and delivered the appraisal and IRS forms within just a few days. Thank you so much, highly recommended!
Bullion 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
AppraiseItNow's service was expeditious and professional. The report was thorough with plenty of examples and rationale for the valuations. Good service comes at a cost, but for me it was well worth it. Highly recommended!
Personal Property 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:
We start with fine silver melt value calculated from weight, purity, and the current spot price, then add or subtract premiums for maker, pattern, rarity, and condition. For rare or historically important pieces, the collectible premium can far exceed scrap value, which is why weighing a Georgian coffee pot like bullion badly understates it.
The two most common are pricing silver plate as if it were sterling and including non-silver components such as knife blades in weight calculations. Both distort melt-based conclusions significantly. Our appraisers verify hallmarks, maker's marks, and purity stamps piece by piece before any weight-based math enters the report.
Often yes, even though Utah Code 75-3-706 lets executors state good-faith estimates for routine household contents. Practitioners treat ordinary furnishings as executor-estimated, while individual high-value items and collections, which antique silver services frequently are, get a USPAP-compliant appraisal to support the inventory and any federal filings.
Not at the state level, since Utah has no estate or inheritance tax. Significant silver collections can still matter federally: for estate and gift purposes they are appraised at fair market value, and large enough transfers trigger reporting on IRS Forms 706 or 709 with full documentation expected.
