Valuation & Assets Services, LLC

About Us

Welcome To Valuation and Assets Services, LLC!

If you are looking for dedicated Machinery and Equipment appraisal services you have found the right company.

Valuation and Assets Services, LLC is an independent machinery and equipment valuation firm providing services to the business, financial, industrial and legal communities. Valuation and Assets has the resources to provide you with the reports, analysis and opinions you need across a wide variety of markets, products and industries. We travel to our client locations nationwide.

With respect to appraisals, Valuation and Assets holds itself accountable to the requirements of Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice – USPAP , the National Equipment and Business Brokers Institute - NEBBI and the American Society of Appraisers – ASA.

To protect your professional reputation, your bank, or your firm, when it comes to determining a value on machinery and equipment, consider asking these very important questions:

If a machinery and equipment appraiser cannot respond “Yes” to every question, you may want to find one that does!

Here’s a million dollar question that can make or break a case…”What do you do when your case involves the value of a business’ tangible assets, particularly machinery and equipment?” If you’re like most attorneys surveyed, you rely on your client’s word, guess, or rely on the word of a non-certified person. BEWARE! All of the foregoing methods are inaccurate and will not hold up to scrutiny. Do you really want to risk relying on the word of a non-certified person? We didn’t think so.

A Certified Machinery & Equipment Appraiser (CMEA) professional has the expertise, certification, and knowledge to conduct an independent third party machinery/equipment appraisal. Our Certified Appraisals are USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) compliant. You can expect to receive a realistic, irrefutable, defensible, and accurate estimate of value that will hold up to scrutiny.

In the advent of the pending AICPA Standards for Valuation Services, the Pension Protection Act of 2006, and more recently IRS Notice 2006-96 defining what constitutes a “qualified appraisal” for the tax related filings under the Act, it is critical that you address the fair market value of your client’s machinery and equipment. Our role is to complement your work not compete with you!!

Gone are the days when the fair market value can be determined by guessing, taking the owner’s word, relying on a depreciation schedule or relying on the word of a non-certified person. The IRS, courts and others all know that the value is inaccurate, unsubstantiated, and more importantly, imposes unnecessary risk!

Your biggest problem and frustration is the Bank Examiner walking through the door directly to your office! Why? Because you can’t rely on the existence or values assigned to the machinery and equipment you have used as collateral to fund a loan! You know it will not withstand scrutiny of the Bank Examiner!

Times and regulations are evolving concerning a “qualified appraisal” of the tangible assets. Even the IRS recently adopted what is meant by a “qualified appraiser”. You and your bank are at risk if you rely on a guess, the owner’s word, a depreciation schedule, or the word of a non-certified person who may have a “hidden” agenda. All of these methods are not only inaccurate but filled with risk! The value will not withstand scrutiny with bank examiners, IRS, attorneys, CPAs, courts and others.

You will lose valuable money on an insurance claim if the machinery and equipment is not accurately valued, certified and reported.

Lenders are more willing to approve loans when they are presented with a Certified Machinery And Equipment Appraisal that is substantiated, defensible and irrefutable.

Call upon a Certified Machinery & Equipment Appraiser (CMEA) who has the training, expertise and knowledge to deliver a USPAP (Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice) compliant report. Our Certified Appraisal Reports are comprehensive, accurate, irrefutable, defensible, and hold up to scrutiny with lenders, IRS, attorneys, CPAs, courts and others.