Disciplines & Assets
- Personal Property
- • Firearms & Gun Collections
- • Sports Cards & Memorabilia
- • Fine Art
- • Jewelry & Watches
- • Antiques & Furniture
- • Musical Instruments
- • Household Contents
- Machinery & Equipment
- • Farm & Agricultural Equipment
- • Medical & Imaging Equipment
- • Construction & Heavy Equipment
- • Machine Shop & Fabrication
- • Inventory & Stock in Trade
- • Restaurant & Commercial
- • Vehicles, Trucks & Trailers
- Residential Valuation
- • Single Family Homes
- • Condominiums & Townhomes
- • Multi-Family (2–4 Unit)
- • Manufactured & Mobile Homes
- • Vacant Land
- • New Construction
- • Rural & Acreage Property
- • Complex & Historic Property
- Business Valuation
- • Small Business & Sole Proprietorship
- • Professional Practices
- • Franchise Businesses
- • Family Limited Partnerships
- • Buy-Sell Agreements
- • Partner & Shareholder Disputes
- › Agricultural & Farm Equipment
- › Medical & Diagnostic Equipment
- › Construction & Heavy Equipment
- › Shop, Industrial & CNC
- • The Three Approaches
- • Discounts — Control & Marketability
- • Buy-Sell & Standard of Value
- • Practice Goodwill
- Expert Witness & Litigation
By Purpose
Knowledge
- What is USPAP, and why does everyone ask for it?
- What makes an appraisal “qualified” to the IRS?
- Fair market value, replacement cost, and liquidation value
- IRS Form 8283, explained
- Retrospective and date-of-death valuations
- The FEMA 50 percent rule, in plain terms
- How to photograph items for a desk appraisal
- Appraisal, CMA, or Zestimate — what's the difference?
- How a divorce appraisal actually works
- Estate and probate valuation: what to expect and when
- Supported adjustments, and why reviewers reject reports
- What an appraisal review is — and when you need one
- Retaining a valuation expert: the process for counsel
- When your insurer's number is too low
- Why the same machine has four different values
- How to choose an appraiser
- Appraisal Glossary
Personal Property by State
Ready for a number you can defend?
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.