About us
You can be confident in our personal property appraisals.
Your Personal Property Experts
Customers requiring formal appraisals of personal property in Steamboat Springs, or throughout Western Colorado, may wish to consider the Tisch Appraisal Group. We are an independent, full-service appraisal company. We perform on-site review, based upon your needs, to achieve your objectives.
Tisch Appraisal Group performs personal property appraisal services in the areas estates tax, insurance coverage or replacement, damage claims, charitable donation, divorce, equitable distribution to heirs, bankruptcy, and for general financial planning.
We appraise furniture, collectibles, artwork, silver, antiques, accessories, furniture, glassware, china, ceramics, figurines, general household goods, rugs. This list is not exhaustive, so please inquire if in doubt. We do not appraise jewelry or real estate, and do not offer business valuation services. Further, we do not buy any items that we appraise, nor do we offer resale services in our capacity as appraisers. Instead, we provide a completely independent, professional assessment of your items.
Our owner, Christopher Tisch, is a generalist appraiser with experience appraising full estates as well as individual items. He is an International Society of Appraisers (ISA) Certified Appraiser and is fully compliant with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP). All of our written appraisals conform to the 2018-2019 Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) and to the standards and requirements set forth in the International Society of Appraisers’ Code of Ethics and Appraisal Report Writing Standard. Learn why hiring a USPAP compliant appraiser is important HERE.
Fees are generally billed at an hourly rate. Keep in mind that for every hour spent onsite, there are generally several hours of corresponding hours of work needed offsite. Off-site time is spent inputting collected data and pictures into a professional appraisal program, researching each item using our extensive reference library and subscription-based electronic databases, and preparing the written report.
Our Story
Our owner, Christopher Tisch, is a generalist appraiser with experience appraising full estates as well as individual items. He is an International Society of Appraisers (ISA) Certified Appraiser and is fully compliant with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP). All of our written appraisals conform to the 2018-2019 Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP) and to the standards and requirements set forth in the International Society of Appraisers’ Code of Ethics and Appraisal Report Writing Standard. Learn why hiring a USPAP compliant appraiser is important HERE.