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Equipment appraisals in Texas 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 Texas, including Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio.
They diligently researched both equipment items and provided well-documented reports
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DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, TEXAS 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.
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.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
Certified Appraisers Guild of AmericaCertified Appraiser
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow appraises agricultural and industrial equipment in Texas for lending, charitable gifts, estates and family division, insurance, and financial reporting. Farm machinery is valued mainly from what comparable units bring at auction and in dealer sales across the region, adjusted for hours, condition, attachments and where the machine actually sits.
Lending
A loan file usually needs more than one premise: what the machine is worth in an ordinary sale, and what it would bring if it had to move quickly. Both are stated, with the reasoning between them. Attachments, hour readings and recent rebuilds move these numbers more than the age on the serial plate does.
Gifts and estates
Equipment given to a charity, divided among heirs or reported in an estate needs a value tied to a date and to named comparable sales, not to a depreciation schedule.
Loss and damage
When weather or fire takes out a tractor, a sprayer or a shop, the question is what the equipment was worth immediately before, and what is left afterwards. Salvage and remaining use are addressed separately, because an insurer and an owner rarely mean the same thing by either.
Texas equipment assignments are built from the operation's own records: serial numbers and model detail, maintenance history, hour meters, purchase invoices and photographs of each significant unit. Texas runs equipment hard and sells it often, which means there is usually a deep record of completed sales to value against.
What gets inspected
On a large operation the significant units are examined and the balance is valued by category, which keeps the cost proportionate without leaving the conclusion unsupported. Categories are described closely enough that a reader can tell a working line from a shed full of idle plant.
What the report shows
Each group of equipment carries the sales it was valued from and the adjustments made for hours and condition, so a lender, an auditor or an examiner can follow the arithmetic.
Three Texas rules shape when farm equipment is taxed, how a dealer's stock is valued, and what it takes to buy machinery without sales tax.
Property tax
Exempt
covers machinery producing farm, ranch or timber products
Machinery and equipment used in the production of farm or ranch products or of timber counts as an implement of husbandry and is exempt from ad valorem taxation, whatever the item was originally designed to do. A nursery stock weather protection unit is treated as one as well. Because that keeps most working farm equipment off the roll, the value of the machinery usually surfaces somewhere else entirely: a loan file, an estate, a divorce, a donation or an insurance claim.
Dealers
1/12 of last year
is the value of a Texas dealer's heavy equipment inventory
For property tax, the market value of a dealer's heavy equipment inventory on January 1 is the prior year's total annual sales, less sales to other dealers, fleet transactions and subsequent sales, divided by twelve. Heavy equipment means self propelled, self powered or pull type equipment, farm equipment included, weighing at least 1,500 pounds and intended for agricultural, construction, industrial, maritime, mining or forestry use. That formula prices a dealer's stock in trade. It says nothing about what one machine on one place is worth, which is the question an appraisal answers.
Sales tax
Every 4 years
a Texas Ag/Timber Number has to be renewed
Machinery and equipment used exclusively on a commercial farm or ranch to raise agricultural products for sale can be bought free of Texas sales tax, but only by a purchaser who holds a current agricultural and timber registration number and puts it on the exemption certificate given to the retailer. Those numbers run on a fixed cycle and are renewed every four years, with the present round expiring at the end of 2027. Buyers from outside Texas are not excused from holding one.
What Texas clients say we are known for
Across 16 published Texas 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.
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 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
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
Fantastic Experience with AppraiseItNow Inc.! I couldn’t be happier with the service I received from AppraiseItNow Inc. They were professional, timely, and incredibly helpful throughout the entire process. Joe, in particular, was an absolute delight to work with—knowledgeable, friendly, and attentive to every detail. I highly recommend AppraiseItNow Inc. to anyone in need of appraisal services. Five stars all the way!
Machinery & Equipment Appraisal for Charitable Donation
Excellent experience with Joe! The service was prompt, professional, and exceeded my expectations. I highly recommend.
Machinery & Equipment 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:
Primarily through comparable sales: recent auction results, online sales, and guide data such as IronGuides, the retail-transaction-based reference for farm machinery, adjusted for age, hours, condition, attachments, and locality. When market data are thin for specialized equipment, we supplement with replacement cost less depreciation, and the report states which approach carried the conclusion.
January 1. Texas Tax Code Section 23.01 requires taxable property to be appraised at market value as of January 1, and appraisal districts must reappraise property in their jurisdiction at least once every three years. That tax value is distinct from what a lender, buyer, or estate needs, which is an appraisal of the specific machine as of the relevant date.
Yes, once the claimed deduction exceeds $5,000. IRS rules require a qualified appraisal and Form 8283 at that level, and donations over $500,000 require attaching the appraisal itself to the return. The appraisal must identify the property and value it as of the donation date, so a vague fair value memo will not satisfy the substantiation rules.
Yes. Under Texas Tax Code Section 21.02, tangible personal property acquires taxable situs in the county where it sits for longer than a temporary period, regardless of where the owner resides. A combine or excavator based at a Texas site is taxed there even when the owning company is headquartered elsewhere, a nuance that regularly surprises multi-state operators.
No. Insurance Code Chapter 1813, created by SB 458 and effective January 1, 2026, requires a standardized appraisal clause only in personal residential property and personal auto policies. Standalone farm equipment and business property policies fall outside its scope, so equipment owners disputing a loss still rely on their own policy terms and independent valuation evidence.