Estate appraisals, from one car or a coin collection to a whole house or a family business

Joe is the owner and CEO of AppraiseItNow. Before acquiring the firm, he was a consultant at Bain & Company, where he advised executive teams on strategy, growth, and investment decisions. The work demanded rigor under deadline: framing the question that actually matters, building the analysis that answers it, and defending every number in the room. He holds AppraiseItNow's valuation work to that same standard, where a conclusion is only as strong as the evidence and reasoning behind it.

Joe acquired full ownership of AppraiseItNow in 2024 and has led its growth since, expanding the practice across business valuation, fine art, and complex machinery and equipment. He has also invested heavily in the firm's technology, so clients get faster answers and every report benefits from a consistent, well-supported process. He oversees engagement quality across the practice and matches each estate to the right credentialed appraiser on the team, splitting larger estates between specialists.

Steve has appraised personal property since 2007. From 2016 to 2025 he was an art appraiser with the IRS's Art Appraisal Services in Washington, DC, where he conducted fair market value determinations for more than 3,000 objects collectively valued at more than $1.2 billion, in support of federal income, estate, and gift tax cases. He also assessed charitable contributions and appraised donated property for tax reporting, served as a Treasury-wide authority on USPAP, and developed expertise in artists' estates, fractional gifts, and other challenging situations.

His work spans fine art from Old Masters to contemporary works, with a particular focus on Impressionist and Modern art, as well as decorative arts and high-value collectibles. Earlier in his career he directed an auction house's trusts and estates department, held a fixed appointment as an associate specialist in 19th century European art, and graded rare coins professionally. He was Editor-in-Chief of Coin World from 2012 to 2015 and then its Editor-at-Large.

Steve is a Certified Member of the International Society of Appraisers, where he has served on the board of directors and as treasurer, teaches the 7-hour and 15-hour USPAP courses, and co-teaches the Appraisal of Fine Art course. He is an Appraisal Qualifications Board Certified USPAP Instructor with The Appraisal Foundation. He holds a JD from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and a BA in History of Art and Organizational Studies from the University of Michigan.

Anne appraises many kinds of personal property, including luxury apparel, furniture, artwork, antiques, and business assets, primarily for IRS tax filings, and researches and writes appraisals for estates, probate, insurance, divorce, and charitable donations.

From 2000 to 2010 she owned an estate sale company, buying entire estates, consigning items to auction, and running complete estate sales from setup and research through the sale and cleanout. She later managed item intake and auction estimates at an auction gallery and researched, photographed, and priced jewelry and vintage goods for online sale.

Anne is an Accredited Member of the International Society of Appraisers and has completed the ISA Core Course in Appraisal Studies and USPAP, with further coursework in appraising silver, Oriental rugs, antiques, furnishings and decorative arts, and ivory regulation and valuation. She holds a BA from Brandeis University.

Ashley has worked as an Asian art specialist since 2017, providing USPAP-compliant appraisals, art advisory, and specialist research. Since 2021 she has appraised personal property as a member of the International Society of Appraisers, for purposes including noncash charitable donations, insurance claims, and equitable distribution.

She chairs the ISA's Antiques, Furnishings, and Decorative Arts committee, where she gives and coordinates presentations on appraisal methodology and edits the committee's education manual, serves on the committee that runs the ISA's annual appraisal conference, and writes about the art market for the ISA.

Ashley holds a Master of Arts in History of Art and Archaeology, with distinction, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art from SOAS, University of London; a Master of Studies in Musicology from the University of Oxford; and a BA in Music, magna cum laude, from Scripps College. She has studied art law at Sotheby's Institute of Art and works professionally in German.

Henry handles firearms year-round as a Federal Firearms Licensee and Special Occupational Taxpayer. His work centers on the American makers collectors prize most, Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson, and Browning, along with antique, military, foreign, and NFA-regulated arms, and on what drives their value: factory configuration and finish confirmed by serial number, originality, and condition.

In collector automobiles he is a concours judge for the Jaguar Clubs of North America and the Mercedes-Benz Club of America, and belongs to eleven marque clubs and registries.

Henry has been a Candidate member of the American Society of Appraisers in Personal Property since 2015, has completed the Society's personal property coursework and its automotive specialty course, and prepares his reports in compliance with USPAP, most recently completing the 7-hour National USPAP Update in October 2026. He holds a master's degree in United States History and served as museum manager for Reno County, Kansas, from 2017 to 2019, training he applies to research into provenance, production records, and historical significance.

Shelly has more than 20 years of consecutive experience in the fine jewelry and gemstone industry, including more than eleven years specializing in jewelry appraisal for insurance, estate, fair market, and hypothetical valuations. She has deep knowledge of diamond grading, colored stone identification, and value analysis based on market data, and prepares USPAP-compliant reports for legal, insurance, and private clients.

She is a Graduate Gemologist of the Gemological Institute of America, with GIA's Graduate Diamonds and Graduate Colored Gemstones diplomas, a Certified Master Appraiser of the National Association of Jewelry Appraisers, a Registered Master Valuer, and a Candidate Member of the American Society of Appraisers.

Marnie's practice covers a broad range of personal property: fine art and sculpture from marble to bronze, collectibles from porcelain figurines to firearms, textiles, historic books, pamphlets and religious ephemera, antiques, furnishings, and vintage and specialty vehicles. Her background in classic car restoration, and a network of fabricators, mechanics, and automotive body specialists, inform her vehicle work.

She has worked closely with legal teams and insurers on appraisals for divorce settlements, estate planning, and insurance coverage, including valuations of entire households for the fair division of marital property. She is certified by the Certified Appraisers Guild of America.

Bob has appraised a diverse range of personal property since 2016 for estates, divorce, bankruptcy, insurance, and businesses. His core specialization is residential contents, and he also has extensive experience with classic and collectible automobiles, tools, and business inventories. He helps families value their household possessions and decide whether to sell, donate, or otherwise dispose of them.

He has more than 17 years of experience collecting and trading American, Asian, and European antiques and vintage items, including toys, stamps, coins, and furniture, and co-owns an antiques business specializing in Chinese, Japanese, English, and American ceramics, jewelry, silver and silver plate, and glass. He is a member of the Certified Appraisers Guild of America.

Jasmani has appeared as a sports memorabilia and collectibles appraiser on the nationally televised Antiques Roadshow since 2007, examining high volumes of sports memorabilia and Americana. Since 2017 he has also valued high-profile sports and Americana memorabilia as an appraisal consultant, reviewing and drafting USPAP-compliant reports and speaking to investment advisors and asset managers about the collectibles market.

Earlier, he researched provenance and wrote catalog descriptions for sports memorabilia and Americana auctions. He earned his JD from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago and was admitted to the Illinois bar and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in 2009, and holds a BA from Southern Illinois University.

Brandy brings a background in photography, cataloging, and managing the sale of valuable items. From 2017 to 2024 she worked for an online estate sale and auction company as a photographer, cataloger, project manager, and sales manager, and she has appraised personal property online since 2022.

She is a member of the International Society of Appraisers, completed the 15-hour USPAP Personal Property course in 2025, and studied art, specializing in graphic design and photography, at The Ohio State University.

Judi's background includes more than 20 years of direct secondary-market selling, four years as a lead evaluator and lister in Goodwill Industries' e-commerce operations, estate liquidation and valuation work for private clients since 2013, and auction cataloging and curation since 2022. Her valuations rely on current market data, comparable sales, condition, quality, and observed secondary-market behavior.

She is a member of the International Society of Appraisers and the Certified Appraisers Guild of America, has completed the ISA Core Course in Appraisal Studies and the 15-hour USPAP course for personal property, and completed the American Society of Estate Liquidators course. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from Purdue University.

Jason has spent more than 20 years selling and valuing machinery, equipment, vehicles, business assets, and estates, and provides USPAP-compliant appraisals to banks, attorneys, trustees, and private clients. He served as a senior vice president and auctioneer at an auction firm from 2004 to 2012.

He is a Certified Appraiser of the Certified Appraisers Guild of America, holds a 200-hour Personal Property Appraiser Course certificate, has completed the 15-hour USPAP course and its update, is an Accredited Auctioneer of Real Estate of the National Auctioneers Association, and is licensed by the North Carolina Auctioneer Licensing Board. He graduated from the Mendenhall School of Auctioneering in 2003.

Talon has spent more than 24 years in business valuation, forensic and investigative accounting, litigation support, and expert witness work. On the valuation side, he has performed appraisals supporting audited financial statements for both publicly traded and privately held companies, including purchase price allocations, 409A valuations, option, warrant, and convertible debt valuations, and goodwill impairment analyses. He has provided hundreds of valuations for gift and estate tax purposes and has valued closely held companies across a wide range of industries for financial statement preparation, ESOP, divorce, shareholder dispute, and other litigation purposes, including numerous family limited partnerships and holding companies.

His engagement history runs from early-stage bio and med-tech, software-as-a-service, and technology companies to large private groups. He served as lead valuation analyst on a high-profile Florida divorce valuation involving personal goodwill and a disputed value range exceeding $100 million, appraised every entity in a conglomerate of 19 automobile dealerships and 20 real property holding companies spanning 25 automotive and powersport brands with over $1.1 billion in combined sales, and led valuation work for a trucking company with sales in excess of $500 million in a shareholder buy-out.

On the forensic side, Talon has supervised and performed business interruption loss calculations, reconstruction of accounting records after theft, fire, and flood, and investigative accounting for criminal fraud trials, marital estates, and officer and director litigation. He has testified as an expert in personal injury, wrongful death, and wrongful termination matters, and helped defend a company against an alleged $1 billion patent and trade secret damages claim that ended in a judgment under $1 million. He also brings formal training in computer forensics and has recovered electronic evidence for divorce and employment law matters.

Talon earned a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and a Master of Science in Accounting with a finance emphasis from Utah State University. He is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Utah, an Accredited Senior Appraiser of the American Society of Appraisers, Accredited in Business Valuation by the AICPA, and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He has chaired the UACPA Business Valuation Committee, served as Treasurer of the Utah Chapter of Certified Fraud Examiners and of the Southern Utah Estate Planning Council, and wrote Understanding Business Valuation: An Owner's Guide to the Business Appraisal Process along with articles in The Utah Bar Journal and The Journal Entry.

Andrew B. Frew has more than 25 years of business valuation experience and has participated in hundreds of valuation and related engagements across numerous industries. His work includes valuations of businesses and ownership interests for gift and estate tax, noncash charitable contributions, buy-sell agreements, mergers and acquisitions, business succession and exit planning, and litigation support. He has significant experience valuing closely held companies, holding companies, and noncontrolling ownership interests, and his work regularly involves the analysis of capital structures, shareholder and operating agreements, and the economic rights attached to privately held equity interests.

His industry experience includes oil and gas, particularly upstream exploration and production companies, oilfield services, manufacturing, distribution, retail, automobile dealerships, and construction and building materials.

Andy is an Accredited Senior Appraiser in Business Valuation of the American Society of Appraisers (2009) and is Accredited in Business Valuation by the AICPA. He has been a member of the American Society of Appraisers since 2007 and served as President of its Houston Chapter from 2015 to 2016. He completed the 7-Hour National USPAP Update Course in March 2024 and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Texas A&M University.

Justin performs fair value, fair market value, and net orderly liquidation value analyses of companies and partnerships for tax and financial reporting, purchase price allocations, mergers and acquisitions, buy-sell agreements, and lending purposes. His clients range from individuals and their counsel, including estate and probate attorneys, to family offices and the management teams of privately held and publicly traded companies.

He is a Manager of Global Valuations at Gordon Brothers and previously held valuation roles at Mercer Capital and at Weaver and Tidwell, formerly HSSK, where he also performed audit reviews of third-party valuations. His appraisal subjects span brand-oriented retail, capital-intensive industrial, energy and utility companies, real estate holding companies, and architectural and engineering firms, with pre-revenue work in biological and medical technologies and biopharmaceutical applications. He was a key contributor to a national energy valuation publication, has been cited in Oil and Gas Investor and the Midland Reporter-Telegram, and has testified as an expert in Texas district court matters.

Justin holds a Master of Science in Finance from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Texas A&M University. He is an Accredited Senior Appraiser of the American Society of Appraisers, Accredited in Business Valuation by the AICPA, and a CFA charterholder, and he has appeared as a guest speaker and panelist at the University of Houston and Texas A&M University.

Daniel is a Certified Valuation Analyst with approximately nine years of experience valuing closely held businesses, ownership interests, and financial instruments. His work includes financial statement analysis, valuation modeling, industry and market research, and the preparation of narrative reports and supporting schedules. He has prepared valuations for noncash charitable contributions and for federal gift and estate tax purposes, for use with IRS Forms 8283, 709, and 706, as well as for management planning, marital dissolution, and business purchases and sales.

His experience extends beyond operating businesses to real estate holding companies, restricted and preferred shares, warrants, options and other derivative instruments, promissory notes, private equity interests, and undivided interests in real estate. His analyses consider the economic rights, restrictions, payment terms, and contingencies attached to the subject interest, using option-pricing models and Monte Carlo simulation where an instrument calls for them, and probability-weighted scenario and sensitivity analysis. Industries include manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, assisted living, staffing and HR outsourcing, banking and wealth management, real estate, contracting, rail transportation, internet and hosting businesses, automobile dealerships, mining, restaurants, and waste management.

Daniel earned the Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) credential from the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts in 2018 and is a member of NACVA. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business with a concentration in Finance.

Raymond has over 35 years of experience valuing the securities and intangible assets of public and private corporations for financial reporting and tax purposes, including engagements under ASC 805, ASC 350, and 409A. He is the Managing Partner of Business Valuation Center's New York and Tampa offices and an executive of its parent holding company, and he has long been responsible for reviewing valuations prepared by other experts on behalf of accounting practice clients.

His career includes senior leadership across several national valuation practices: Director at GBQ Consulting, where he headed the New York office; Managing Director, Eastern Region Valuation Services at Ceteris; and Managing Director of Trenwith Valuation, the valuation arm of BDO, where he led teams on financial reporting and tax valuation projects and served as one of three members of the National Leadership Committee for BDO's valuation practice. Earlier, as Chairman of Valuation Counselors Group, he managed all aspects of the firm's business and rebuilt it into a national leader before directing its sale to CBIZ, a publicly traded company, in 1997. He also served as Senior Vice President at Management Planning, Inc. in Princeton, where he helped develop and implement the firm's corporate valuation practice.

Raymond holds an MBA from Emory University, a Master in City Planning from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University. He is an Accredited Senior Appraiser and Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers and a past president of its Princeton chapter.