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Equipment appraisals in Vermont for donations, lending, M&A, and financial reporting, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises manufacturing equipment, construction machinery, agricultural equipment, industrial tools, and fleet vehicles across Vermont, including Burlington, Montpelier, and Rutland.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT MACHINERY & EQUIPMENT APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, VERMONT 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 provides professional equipment and machinery appraisals across Vermont, serving clients who need valuations for donations, lending, mergers and acquisitions, and financial reporting. Vermont's economy includes food processing, machinery manufacturing, scale manufacturing, and a thriving craft brewing industry, all of which generate consistent demand for credentialed appraisals that satisfy lenders, regulators, and the IRS.
Whether your assets are located in Burlington, Rutland, Brattleboro, or a rural Vermont community, our appraisers are available both remotely and onsite to inspect and document your equipment. Our equipment and machinery appraisal services cover a full range of intended uses and value definitions. We offer Fair Market Value (FMV), Orderly Liquidation Value (OLV), Forced Liquidation Value (FLV), and Replacement Value appraisals for various intended uses.
Our appraisers evaluate a broad range of industrial, commercial, and agricultural equipment found throughout Vermont, including:
Vermont's equipment landscape is particularly shaped by its agricultural heritage and growing craft food and beverage sector, meaning appraisers here regularly work with specialized fermentation vessels, bottling lines, and dairy processing equipment. Whether the assignment involves a single piece of machinery or an entire production facility, our appraisers apply the cost, market, and income approaches as appropriate to produce a well-supported, USPAP-compliant report.
We serve businesses, lenders, attorneys, accountants, nonprofit organizations, and individual owners throughout Vermont who need credentialed equipment and machinery appraisals for asset-based lending, purchase price allocation, charitable donations, estate and gift tax reporting, mergers and acquisitions, insurance purposes, and financial statement compliance.
What Vermont clients say we are known for
Across 16 published Vermont 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
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
They did an appraisal of medical equipment for donation. They did it quickly, and I received a blank form 8283 signed by the appraiser. It was what I needed. The price was higher than I wanted to spend on an appraisal, but a lot lower than other appraisers. AppraiseItNow was very responsive and communicative, and the other appraisers were not. I would use them again.
Medical 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:
Exposure time and sale conditions. Fair market value assumes a willing buyer and seller with adequate marketing time, orderly liquidation value assumes a compressed but organized sale, and forced liquidation value assumes an auction under duress. The same Vermont machinery can carry dramatically different numbers under each premise, so the report must name which one it concludes.
We evaluate physical deterioration, functional obsolescence, and economic obsolescence separately rather than applying a simple age-based schedule. A ten-year-old machine that was rebuilt last year, or one made obsolete by a new technology, will not sit where an age curve predicts, and the appraisal has to explain those adjustments.
In Vermont towns that tax business personal property, listers appraise it at fair market value as of April 1, or under depreciation-based formulas tied to federal tax depreciation and net book value where the town has adopted the options in 32 V.S.A. § 3618. An independent appraisal gives owners market evidence when a scheduled value looks wrong.
Yes, when it is used predominantly, meaning at least 75% of total use time, in producing agricultural or horticultural commodities for sale under 32 V.S.A. § 9741(25). The exemption applies at purchase and does not change how a town taxes the same equipment as business personal property. Buyers typically document eligibility with an exemption certificate, and the use test, not the equipment type, controls.
