As pointed out in the previous Leased Equipment post, today’s equipment lessor must be more knowledgeable than ever before about the value of leased equipment: Many leasing decisions, from the initial transaction pricing through the ultimate disposition of the equipment, are based on the value of the underlying asset. In addition, it’s critical to have…Read More
Selecting an Appraiser for Leased Equipment: Part 1 of 2
Over the years, I’ve done a number of valuations on leased equipment for various reasons. It’s almost aways the case that the folks who are leasing the equipment and the folks who own it don’t agree on what the value of the equipment is or even what the premise of value should be for the equipment…Read More
CARB Tractor Rule: Rumors & Reality
As a machinery and equipment appraiser working in the Central Valley of California, I appraise a fair amount of mobile diesel-powered agricultural field equipment: tractors, of course, but also harvesters, sprayers, shakers, sweepers, and on and on. As anyone with an interest in diesel equipment knows, over the last several years the California Air Resources…Read More
How Will Dodd-Frank Affect Appraisals?
In this guest blog, Robert Podwalny, FASA, gives an overview of the Appraisal Review and Management (ARM) field of the appraisal profession, explaining why appraisal review is needed, what an appraisal review involves, who is qualified to review appraisals, and the opportunities available in this quickly-growing area of the appraisal profession. Substandard Appraisals One of…Read More
Paperless Appraisals
One of our new year’s resolution at NorCal Valuation Inc. is to be even more paperless in 2013. We took a big step in saving paper last year when we stopped mailing printed equipment appraisal reports. We now send electronic reports to all of our clients, whether attorneys, lending institutions, corporations, CPAs, or small businesses….Read More
Appraising Propane Equipment: Customer & Storage Tanks
Whether retail propane companies need an equipment appraised for collateral lending situations, buy-sell agreements, family law, estate tax or any other reason, the equipment appraiser needs to take a good look at not only the basic equipment of the retail propane industry — trucks and trailers, customer tanks, and large volume storage tanks — but…Read More
Appraising Propane Equipment: Delivery Trucks
Earlier, we reviewed current conditions in the retail propane industry, a commodity-based industry in a mature market place suffering from reduced sales and relatively flat projected growth. With a general understanding of the industry situation, the retail propane equipment appraiser can more easily address the interesting challenges in valuing the 3 standard equipment categories of…Read More
Appraising Propane Equipment: Industry Overview
Retail propane companies may need their equipment appraised for collateral lending situations, buy-sell agreements, family law, estate tax or several other situations. Whatever the reason, when appraising retail propane equipment, it’s important for an equipment appraiser to understand the overall retail propane industry as well as how the basic equipment — trucks and trailers, customer…Read More
Considering Installation Costs in Valuations
Installation costs are one of the variables in equipment appraisal so let’s look at two valid reasons an equipment appraisal might not include installation values. The most obvious reason an equipment appraisal might not address installation costs is that a great variety of equipment doesn’t have any associated installation costs. Installation costs include freight, delivery,…Read More
CARB alert: approved emission retrofits
Just received this information from CARB: Be aware that some companies are advertising and attempting to sell devices that cannot be used to comply with Air Resources Board (ARB) diesel engine regulations. Only diesel particulate matter (PM) filters or other devices that have been verified by the ARB to meet rigorous emission reduction and durability…Read More
How Depreciation Affects Appraisal Values
So an accountant and an equipment appraiser walked into a bar … the punchline would refer to a misunderstanding about depreciation, but depreciation in equipment appraisals is no joke. Mention depreciation to an accountant and the first thing that comes to mind is the depreciation schedule, whereby the value of fixed assets are reduced annually…Read More
Appraiser on Pinterest
After receiving an email today promising to teach me all the secrets of using Pinterest to build my equipment appraisal business, I thought I’d pop over (to Pinterest, not the offered $395 webinar) and see what all the fuss is about. Boy, was I surprised to find not only a John Deere page, but also…Read More
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