Why do this?

To establish current value for: sale, appropriate insurance limits, museum donation, trust inclusion, potential dimished value claims, divorce settlement, tax purposes, bankruptcy proceedings, equitable distribution for estate planning. To establish a true cost of reconstruction or replacement for valued possessions.

 

What do you appraise?

Automobiles, race cars, street rods & machines, custom cars, musclecars, exotics,classic, collector and antique cars, light medium and heavy duty trucks, vans, SUV's, import hot rods, motorcycles. We also have experience appraising light aircraft. In other words, if an engine or motor propells it, we can place a correct value upon it!

We can also place a value in the tools and equipment you have assembled over time. Your insurance company and estate planner should know the value of these items.

We hold specific ASA certification to perform these services.

 

The Process

Following contact SV will return the call or email to assess your project. By the agreed-upon means, we will provide a proposal which outlines our approach. Your signed approval means the project is on our schedule and we're on the way!

We personally inspect each vehicle before preparing an appraisal document. Either one or both SV principals will make a site visit to digitally record and catalog the various item(s) to be valued. We DO NOT quote via email or fax exchange!

Finally, we research an extensive library of rare documents, specialty magazines, industry contacts and other information sources to provide both accurate and up-to-date valuations.

Our product is a thoroughly professional, highly credible report declaring value which includes a logical argument for some.

 

What are your fees?

Each project is unique. Once we understand the complete nature of what you seek a quotation will be prepared for your review and approval.

 

If unqiue is what you seek

Certain specialty motor vehicles are created with such a unique mixture of engineering, and imagineering, that there literally exists no means by which to establish "comps" find or vehicles of comparable design characteristics and value. This is particularly true with historic race cars.

Such challenges often confront the automotive appraiser with vehicles of other types as well. True valuation then pivots on that experience-only facet of the longtime vehicle worth judge. Southwest Valuation's 35-year history is of particular benefit to those who seek correct, defendable results under such circumstances.

 

What types of "value" do you consider?

We take great care to clearly define, specifically, in which category the client wishes to establish value. Our assessments include, but are not limited to, the following: Actual Cash Value, Dimished Value, Fair Market Value, Fractional Value, Hypothetical Value, Liquidation Value, Provenance or Historical Value, Replacement Value, Reconstructive Value or Salvage Value. Please contact us for best understood value definitions.

 

What is "provenance"?

In appraisal jargon, "provenance" is described as an intangible that adds to an object. The quality varies from vehicle to vehicle.

For instance, the added value of a "Fortune 100" comapny sponsorship for a race car tends to make said vehicle worth more than a similar vehicle sponsored by a muffler shop.Was it the first in a manufactured series? Who drove the vehicle and how fast? If the car ran for numerous years; what was its win/place record compared to others in the same category? Where, when or how badly was it crashed? What, then is the vehicle's resume? That differs from its pedigree.

Answering those questions, and factoring the worth of such variables, is the "craft" aspect of unique vehicle appraisal. Experience and resources significantly impact the able-ness of an appraiser to correctly adjust the value for provenance impact. Southwest Valuations is supremely qualified to make such judgements.

 

Credibility

Southwest Valuations' principals draw on nearly 35 years of appraisal experience. We strictly adhere to a Code of Ethics established by the Americian Society of Appaisers and to their federally-endorsed Universal Standard of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP). ASA is the largest (5500 members) multi-disciplinary professional organization which educates and establishes behavior codes for those who practice this profession.