What our appraisers get asked, written down. How equipment is valued, what the premises of value actually mean, what a report costs and what belongs in one: no jargon, no sales pitch, and no numbers we would not put our name to.
FL-001Collateral valuation is the process of estimating the value of equipment, fleets, and other hard assets when they are being used to secure a loan or support another financial decision. Learn how appraisers inspect the asset, analyze market data, and produce a defensible value under USPAP.
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AG-002Learn how used farm equipment value is estimated from make, model, hours, condition, maintenance, attachments, and market evidence, and when a formal USPAP-compliant appraisal is the right move for lending, sale, estate, divorce, or insurance.
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HE-003A plain-spoken guide to how heavy equipment valuation works, what moves value, and how appraisers decide whether the market, cost, or income approach best supports a defensible number for lending, sale, estate, litigation, insurance, or tax reporting.
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LQ-004A plain-English guide to liquidation value for equipment, fleets, and other hard assets, including when it is used, what drives the result, and how it differs from market value and orderly liquidation value in defensible appraisal work.
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AV-005A plain-English guide to machinery and equipment valuation for lending, sale, tax, insurance, litigation, estate, bankruptcy, and internal planning. Learn how appraisers define the value premise, inspect assets, research market evidence, and reconcile results into a defensible conclusion.
Read the FileHow equipment appraisals actually work: what an appraiser looks at, what a report costs, and how a defensible value is reached.
Open FileValuation guides for excavators, dozers, loaders, cranes and the rest of the iron on a construction site.
Open FileHow tractors, combines, implements and whole farm fleets are valued for lending, estate, partnership and sale purposes.
Open FileValuing tractors, trailers, vocational trucks and whole fleets: for financing, sale, insurance and fleet renewal decisions.
Open FileCollateral valuation explained for borrowers and lenders: the process, the report, and what underwriters look for.
Open FileOrderly, forced and net liquidation value: the premises of value that decide what a business's assets are really worth.
Open FileOur appraisers deliver USPAP-compliant reports for lending, litigation, insurance, tax and sale decisions across construction, agriculture, transportation and trucking.
