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The value of your residential contents is important for your personal reasons and for informed decision making. A competent residential contents appraiser can conduct an online residential contents appraisal tailored to your needs. It is fun! Like having an online Antiques Road show in your home.

Bill Novotny, an online personal property appraiser, does oral and formal personal property appraisals of most personal property types and ordinary residential contents.

Bill is committed to do your personal property appraisal competently and ethically. His competence is based on daily study of varying property types and market activity. He has done so since 1978 when he was on independent study for two nearly two years to complete a masters degrees in psychology (CSULA) and gerontology (USC). He was struggling to complete a masters thesis on quality of care in nursing homes (1978 to early 1979). Instead, In 1979 he opened a 20,000 s.f. empty antiques store in the heart of Glendale CA. If you can't find a local, accredited and competent personal property appraiser call Bill Novotny for an online appraisal of most types of residential contents. Value in Doubt? Find Out. Call 626-292-2224 Now.

Novotny's Personal Property Appraisal Service

Like having an "antiques road show" in your home

Novotny loves the Antiques Road Show. He competes with the guest antique appraiser to silently give his value opinion first and then finds out if he was right or wrong. He started playing this property appraiser game in 1979 when he entered the antiques business and attended 2 or 3 auctions a week in order to stock his empty 20,000 square feet antique store in the heart of Glendale. Over the next 20 years he continued buying many complete residential contents. As a personal property appraiser, on a weekly basis, he still reviews complete online auction results for most types of personal property types and attends live auctions in order to remain current in a changing market..

Since 1979 he begins each day with personal study of object types of current interest to him from his incredible library. Find out About Novotny. Call a competent antique online appraiser to get an online property appraisal of residential contents.

As a general personal property appraiser Bill Novotny is familiar with most

assignment types.

After 40+ years of pricing and valuing most personal property types he can competently value almost all kinds of residential contents as well as your rare hidden treasure you did not know were treasures!

Oral Reports

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Like having an "antiques road show" in your home

Novotny, a highly experienced personal property appraiser, can provide a fast paced oral online personal property appraisal report for most household items (typically 10 - 60 objects per hour). He can also provide you with a signed written "Oral Appraisal Report Disclosures" form (OARD form) which provides context and meaning ensuring his oral online residential contents appraisal is properly understood. His oral property appraisal report OARD form has all of the required elements of a formal "Restricted Appraisal Report" which you can request as an option. An online appraiser can also create a general residential contents formal appraisal report.

For oral reports your hand written inventory (Value Section) is noted as "enclosed" with the oral appraisal report disclosures (OARD) form transmittal) along with his CV. This make his appraisal complete and in compliance with USPAP. Furthermore, the client's hand written value section is authenticated by reflecting the total number of entries appraised as well as the total value of those entries which are documented on an OARD form which includes a signed USPAP Certification. This is necessary to ensure the oral appraisal report is meaningful and properly understood in the appropriate context and with appropriate disclosures.

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Like having an "antiques road show" in your home

Let's solve your valuation problem!

You too can have an "Antiques Road Show" type of oral online appraisal in your home live and interacting with an online appraiser of residential contents. Show your objects from your digital device to my computer screen and interact directly with a personal property online appraiser.

During the online appraisal, he will, as needed, research any rare or challenging objects online.

You can follow his research at the same time on your computer screen using Zoom...it is easy. He will set it up.

Bill Novotny ensures you will properly understand his value opinions, disclosures, assumptions and conclusions. You will have a basis to decide whether or not to rely on him.

When he orally values without research he is confident he is on target (there is no bullseye. He assumes his opinion is credible and that research will confirm his opinion. We agree to share that risk. You can always ask him to do research. Are you ready to find out more about an online appraisal... Call

626-292-2224 Now! He can appraiser your:

Antiques & Furniture, Decorative Art
Folk Art, Paintings, Drawings, Bronzes, Prints
Textiles, Rugs, Quilts, Samplers, Lace
Ethnic, Asian, and Native American Objects
Ephemera, Books, Posters, Advertising
Collectibles, Toys, Dolls, Banks, Coin-Op
Ceramics, Glass, and Metal Objects (Most)

Etc. Etc. Etc. I decline to appraise any object for which I cannot develop a credible value opinion following brief by diligent research.