Appraiser in Yuma, Arizona
Yuma County — certified valuation of real estate, personal property, machinery and equipment, and business interests for clients in Yuma.
Yuma County
Agricultural and border market with a large winter-visitor population and extensive manufactured housing. Farm equipment, irrigation infrastructure, and agricultural asset valuation are core work here.
Agriculture, equipment, and a seasonal population
Yuma County farms roughly 230,000 acres, and every acre of it is irrigated with Colorado River water delivered through one of seven irrigation districts. Between November and April the area supplies the large majority of the leafy greens consumed in the United States and Canada, and USDA's 2022 Census of Agriculture put Yuma agriculture at about $1.3 billion in direct sales.
That is the economy the valuation work sits inside. The two categories that dominate are agricultural assets — equipment, irrigation infrastructure, implements — and manufactured housing serving a large winter-visitor population. Both are personal property questions far more often than they are real estate questions, which is why this is a personal property market first and a residential one second.
Agricultural equipment and the reporting obligation
Agricultural and commercial business personal property is reported annually to the county assessor on Arizona Department of Revenue form 82520, and for tax year 2026 the exemption is $500,000 of full cash value. Locally assessed personal property other than manufactured housing is assessed on full cash value, classified and valued by the county assessor.
An equipment valuation prepared for that filing is a different document from one prepared for a lender taking the same equipment as security, and different again from one prepared for a dissolution. The asset does not change; the value premise does, and the premise is what the report has to state plainly.
Irrigation infrastructure is the item most often handled badly, because whether it is valued in place and in service or as removable equipment produces materially different numbers from the same installation.
Manufactured housing in a winter-visitor market
Much of the manufactured stock here sits in leased-lot and seasonal-occupancy communities, which means the occupant owns the home but not the land beneath it. Without ownership of both, an Affidavit of Affixture cannot be recorded, and the home remains personal property — which is the correct classification, not a deficiency.
Where a unit is to be moved, a form 504 tax clearance is required before transport and will not issue while taxes are owing. In a market with this much seasonal turnover that is a routine scheduling constraint rather than an unusual one.
Venue
Yuma County Superior Court sits in Yuma. Where a report is prepared for a matter before it, it is written to be read and tested by a party who did not commission it.
Appraisal services in Yuma
Real property inspected in person throughout Arizona. Personal property and business valuation handled remotely if you prefer.
Personal Property
Machinery, equipment and business inventory, plus firearms, antiques and full household contents — appraised remotely, worldwide.
Machinery & Equipment
Farm, medical, construction, and shop equipment — desk appraisals worldwide, on-site throughout Arizona.
Residential Valuation
Single-family, condo, multi-family, manufactured and mobile homes — Arizona-licensed, statewide.
Business Valuation
Closely held companies and professional practices — engagements accepted worldwide.
Need an appraisal in Yuma?
Tell us what you have and what it's for. You get a fixed written quote — never an hourly meter, never a sales call.
What the work actually looks like
Real assignments, client details removed — what each engagement actually turned on, rather than how it felt.
A house, a workshop of machine tools, a forty-year firearms collection and a stake in the family company — four disciplines that three appraisers had only partly covered. One engagement, one effective date, one set of assumptions.
A donation the regulations would have aggregated past the appraisal threshold, which the donor had assessed item by item. One qualified appraisal covering the group, itemized, signed inside the window the regulations allow.
An opposing report whose number was not obviously wrong — which is what made it dangerous. It failed on its own certification, and was answered section by section with an independent valuation to the correct definition of value.