Increasingly appraisers are being “called on the carpet” and closely scrutinized by the Internal Revenue Service, the legal and insurance professions to perfect their performance in the execution of ...

The success of an appraisal requires a critical understanding of the purpose for which that particular qualified appraisal is needed, whether for donation and estate tax issues, equitable distribution ...

Your childhood baseball card collection gathering dust in the basement of your parents’ home, which you must clean out for an estate sale, or the pottery you brought back 30 years ago after serving ...

Jon Thompson can tell you what's good, better and best. In his job as a personal property appraiser of fine and decorative art and antiques, his day-to-day work requires him to know the difference.