ASA Accredited Senior Appraiser
Choosing a Bankruptcy Equipment Appraiser
When your Bankruptcy Attorney requests an equipment appraisal, it’s usually up to you to find a qualified equipment appraiser. And as you might suspect, not all machinery & equipment appraisals are created equal!
When you need an appraisal for your bankruptcy—or any other reason, for that matter—be sure that the equipment appraisal company you choose meets the four important qualifications of Accreditation, Experience, USPAP Education and Approval of your Bankruptcy Attorney.
Professional Accreditation
A professional equipment appraiser has the expertise, certification and knowledge to conduct an independent, third-party machinery and equipment appraisal. When you work with an equipment appraiser accredited by the American Society of Appraisers, you can be confident that you’ll receive a summary appraisal report with substantiated and realistic values.
Bankruptcy Equipment Appraisals: Get Legal Advice Early
Bankruptcy equipment appraisals in the Sacramento and Northern California area are not my favorite part of the equipment and machinery appraisal business; nevertheless, I regularly find myself on the phone with either a business owner or a bankruptcy attorney, working out the details for a Forced Liquidation Value equipment appraisal for an agricultural business, a manufacturing plant, factory, construction or excavating business, or a speciality production shop.
If you’re a business owner wondering whether it’s time to talk to a equipment appraiser regarding an appraisal of your business assets and equipment–whatever kind of business you may be in–do yourself a favor and call a bankruptcy attorney before you call me.
Collector Car Appraisals for Remote Purchases
Need a Collector Car Appraisal?
(Thanks to SeriousWheels for this sample photo)
Often they ask if I can drive over to Reno or Santa Barbara, or fly into Vegas or Los Angeles, to see if the restoration, repair or replacement work on the vehicle has been done properly. They might also want me to assert whether the collector car really does fall within the rating with which it has been been described, usually a 2 or 2.5.
Ag Equipment Appraiser at Colusa Farm Show
February 1 dawned clear and windy, a perfect day for the Colusa Farm Show, just a few miles down the road from our Northern California Equipment Appraisal Office here in Yolo Co. So we set up call forwarding from the office phone and spent the day at “the Granddaddy of Farm Shows,” admiring farm equipment and chatting with dealers, manufacturers, farmers, dairymen, ranchers and other fans of agricultural equipment.
Super Truck Appraisals: Equipment Appraisal on the Road
I got my first Super Truck limited edition CAT scale collector card October 2010. These Super Truck Limited Edition cards–for those of you, like me, who didn’t already know–are slick full-color trading cards that feature working trucks. Really amazingly customized big rigs that stand out from the transportation most of us see cruising down the highway, hauling chickens or lumber, produce, automobiles, or production goods. These trucks really are, well, super.
SBA Loan Appraisals: Machinery & Equipment
Here at our Northern California Certified Machinery and Equipment Appraisal office, the phone’s been ringing off the hook with calls from Sacramento and Yuba City banks and other northern California financial institutions asking for qualified SBA loan appraisals on machinery and equipment for collateralized loans. The recent passage of the Small Business Jobs Act (H.R. 5297) has galvanized the business loan market!
Sacramento Equipment Appraiser Offers More
I’ve gotten some interesting emails regarding the initial post on the Proposed Update of Valuation Terms. One email reminded me that I could make my comments directly to the definitions committee and/or on the ASA forums. Well, I would if any of those comments had been mine! I must not have made it clear in the original post that the comments added to the definitions were part of the original document, so I went back and did some editing to clarify that.
