"Appraisal How To and Why"

"Discover the Secrets to Peace of Mind Concerning your Personal Property
Assets and Contents"

Applied knowledge brings you personal empowerment. Our mission is to bring you appraisal and value knowledge, to empower you to make informed decisions about your personal property, i.e. home contents, personal estate, or business contents.
Nationally Featured on TV, Radio, and Newspapers, Randy Nelson and Randeen Cummings Nelson invite you to take the Appraisal Quest journey on your own personal property value quest. We appreciate your support of our efforts and our recommended products. Visit, come back often as we build this appraisal resource for you.


Why do you need an appraisal?  Fire.  Theft.  Flood.  Tornado.  Hurricane.  Divorce.  Bankruptcy.  Estate, Donation, Gift....The IRS.   To name a few.

These are all threats to your personal assets, your personal property.  The wheel of fate will almost certainly, at some point, target your personal and treasured possessions.  But, never fear!

We are here to consult, advise and prepare you to make knowledgeable decisions before and/or after a loss.  A Value Quest will inform and educate you about the value of your personal property.  We will share common sense steps to take to protect your valuables.

Our appraisal quest is to educate you, to prepare you to make informed value decisions, to help you protect your personal property assets.....your home contents, your farm machinery, your business contents, your jewelry, your vehicles, your belongings.  Your quest is to take advantage of this knowledge to protect your precious belongings and have more peace of mind.

Sound dull and boring?  Not at all.  How about discovering that the 'old thing' you never got around to donating to the Salvation Army is worth 'Big Bucks'?  How about learning how to avoid paying more than you legally have to on estate taxes, or personal property taxes?  Pretty cool.

What if you were able to stop a dear elderly family member or friend from being taken to the cleaners by an unscrupulous appraiser/dealer?  What if you learned you could prevent a long and painful insurance claim loss process by properly preparing before you suffered a loss?  You will learn all this and a lot more by taking advantage of our appraisal value information and consultation advice.

Within Our Appraisal Quest Pages We will provide you with an ever increasing reference source of common sense, informative, experience packed, humorous (and sometimes sad) articles and real life stories concerning personal property:  This will include some real horror stories!  Take ours to heart and contribute your own hard won experiences to help others avoid it.  Our blog will be there for you to contribute these stories.

Appraisal Quest Will feature and offer you:

• Informative common sense appraisal and value articles
  

• Valuable market and value information and advice including insurance coverage, insurance loss, equitable distribution (divorce, business partner buyouts, business dissolution), IRS estate and IRS donation, estate probate and liquidation.
  

• Why, When, Where, How Appraisal questions such as "How to choose a qualified Appraiser". (Our credentials are subheaded under Credentials Randeen and Credentials Randy). 
  

• An interactive question and answer appraisals and antiques blog for sharing and contributing your personal questions, horror stories, or experieces that you want to share .                                                                                                                                          
• An estate sale do it yourself kit we proudly offer for the novice or experienced estate sale manager.  This comprehensive collection of information, forms, contracts, and supplies is based on over 25 years of our successful professional estate sale marketing and consultation.  Our comprehensive kit is a a start to finish collecton of insider how to on estate sale preparation through the cleanup after the estate sale.  It features contracts, set up and sale checklists, procedural,liability waiver and warning signs, accounting, advertising, sales tags and signs and more. This packet can save you Big Bucks in fees and commissions.  Plus a huge sense of control over your own our your loved ones property.
  
  
• A Bookstore with personally selected research/reference books and helpful products for both Appraisals and Antiques.                                                                                                                                                                                                     
• An interactive Photo Gallery for your use in identification, research, comments, and to contribute to.                                  
• Antiques Quest subsite offering our experience and expertise, fine product recommendations and our very special gallery   of antiques.