Our Appraisers

Dallas and Austin Home Markets With Broader Reach

Becky’s primary Texas service markets include Dallas–Fort Worth and Austin. Depending on the assignment, she may also serve clients in Houston, San Antonio, Waco, College Station, Corpus Christi, Amarillo, El Paso, and other communities across North, Central, East, South, and West Texas.

Appropriate regional projects may extend to Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Oklahoma; Little Rock and Fayetteville, Arkansas; Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans, Louisiana; and Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Becky may also travel for select appraisal assignments elsewhere in the United States. These locations describe potential service coverage, not separate office locations. Availability depends on the property, intended use, effective date, specialty requirements, travel logistics, and scope of work.

Object Knowledge Informed by Interior Design and Continuing Study

Becky’s interior-design education and appraisal training support analysis of furniture, decorative arts, fine art, antiques, and mixed personal property. Research may consider maker or artist information, materials, construction, age, dimensions, quality, condition, restoration, attribution, provenance, comparable evidence, and the market appropriate to the assignment.

Her specialty education spans historic and mid-century furniture, Asian art and porcelain, frames, prints, rugs, rare books, clocks, pianos, wine, jadeite, petroliana, and automobilia. Additional specialist consultation may be used when an object or assignment requires it.

Personal Property Appraisals

Personal property appraisals address tangible assets such as fine art, antiques, furnishings, decorative objects, household contents, and collections. Becky develops the assignment around the intended use and applies the type of value, effective date, market, and research depth appropriate to that purpose.

Projects may involve selected higher-value objects or complete residential contents. Clients beginning the process can review in-person personal property appraisals.

Antique & Fine Art Appraisals

Antique and fine art appraisals require attention to historical context, market behavior, condition, attribution, provenance, and category-specific evidence. Becky distinguishes decorative household objects from stronger market-facing assets and adjusts research to the importance and characteristics of the property.

The goal is a supported conclusion that helps clients, fiduciaries, and advisors understand how an object fits within the relevant market and the larger assignment.

Collection Appraisals

Collection appraisals may involve related objects that must be considered individually and within a broader collecting context. Becky organizes property into meaningful subgroups, identifies where value is concentrated, and applies targeted research where distinctions in rarity, quality, condition, or market demand materially affect value.

This structure supports collections being insured, transferred, divided, donated, or included in estate planning and administration.

Household Inventory Appraisals

Household inventory appraisals document furnishings, decorative objects, books, art, antiques, collections, and other residence contents for estate, insurance, planning, or fiduciary purposes. Becky organizes property by location and category while identifying items that warrant additional research.

The resulting report provides a usable valuation framework rather than an unstructured list, helping clients understand both the residence as a whole and the stronger assets within it.

Structured Inventories for Complex Personal Property

Estate and fiduciary assignments often include general household contents, stronger art and antiques, and specialized collections within a single project. Becky builds a coherent inventory, separates property that requires deeper research, and matches documentation to the intended use and effective date.

This organized approach helps attorneys, accountants, executors, fiduciaries, and family representatives understand what has been appraised, where value is concentrated, and how the conclusions were developed.

Estate Tax Appraisals

Estate tax appraisals establish the value of personal property as of the date of death or another applicable effective date for federal reporting. Becky organizes fine art, antiques, furnishings, household contents, and specialized collections so the report connects the property, the relevant market, and the tax purpose.

For additional service information, review IRS-qualified estate tax appraisals.

IRS-Qualified Appraisals

Certain estate, gift, and non-cash charitable contribution matters require an IRS-qualified appraisal and a qualified appraiser. Becky defines the assignment at intake, confirms the applicable effective date and intended use, and develops item descriptions, market support, and reporting appropriate to the property and federal purpose.

Tax-related requirements should be confirmed before inspection and research begin so the scope and report format are properly established.

Probate Appraisals

Probate appraisals document personal property values for estate administration. Becky categorizes household contents, art, antiques, furnishings, and family collections so attorneys, executors, beneficiaries, and fiduciaries can rely on a common, organized record.

When probate and federal estate tax needs intersect, the assignment should be structured to address the intended users, required type of value, and applicable effective date.

High-Value Estate Appraisals

High-value estates may combine multiple property categories, markets, and reporting requirements. Becky builds a clear inventory system, identifies stronger assets early, and assigns research depth according to the value concentration and complexity of each category.

The objective is a unified report that remains readable while giving art, antiques, collections, and other material assets the analysis they require.

A Methodology-First Appraisal Process

Becky’s appraisal work begins with the valuation problem rather than a preset report. The client, intended users, intended use, effective date, property characteristics, applicable market, type of value, assignment conditions, and required reporting format determine the scope.

Her appraisal-review and expert-witness education further informs how she evaluates market support, internal consistency, methodology, assumptions, and the relationship between evidence and conclusions.

USPAP-Compliant Appraisals

USPAP establishes ethical and performance requirements for professional appraisal practice. Becky’s assignments identify the intended use, intended users, effective date, scope of work, assumptions, relevant markets, evidence, and reporting choices necessary to develop credible results.

Her listed education includes the 2025 fifteen-hour USPAP course for 2025–2026 and earlier USPAP review and update courses.

Appraisal Review Services

Appraisal review evaluates an existing report’s scope, methodology, evidence, clarity, internal consistency, and support for its conclusions. Becky’s 2021 expert-witness education and 2026 appraisal-review and expert-witness training inform this work.

For additional information, review litigation appraisal review.

Fair Market Value Appraisals

Fair market value depends on the relevant market and the characteristics of the property being appraised, not the mere presence of comparable data. Becky analyzes appropriate sales evidence, condition, quality, market level, and assignment-specific facts to develop a supported opinion of value.

Fair market value may be applicable to estate, tax, probate, donation, divorce, and other assignments when required by the intended use.

Assignment-Specific Documentation and Neutrality

Insurance, donation, and divorce assignments may involve the same objects but require different value definitions, markets, effective dates, and reporting considerations. Becky structures each engagement around its intended use rather than transferring assumptions from one type of assignment to another.

This distinction is especially important for mixed collections, damaged property, higher-value household contents, and matters in which attorneys, insurers, tax professionals, fiduciaries, or multiple parties will rely on the report.

Insurance Appraisals

Insurance appraisals document personal property for coverage, scheduling, risk management, or defined claim-related purposes. Becky identifies property, records relevant characteristics and condition, and develops the type of value and market analysis appropriate to the insurance question.

Replacement cost and fair market value are not interchangeable. Learn more about insurance appraisals.

Charitable Donation Appraisals

Charitable donation appraisals establish fair market value for qualifying non-cash contributions. Becky documents the donated property, applicable effective date, condition, relevant market, comparable evidence, and reporting requirements while maintaining an independent appraisal role.

Assignments may involve one significant object or multiple collection items. See charitable donation appraisals.

Divorce Appraisals

Divorce appraisals provide independent opinions of value for tangible personal property considered during negotiation, mediation, litigation, or equitable distribution. Becky applies consistent identification, categorization, and valuation logic to furnishings, art, antiques, decorative objects, collections, and other marital property.

The report is neutral valuation support, not advocacy. See divorce appraisals for equitable distribution.

Core Methodology and Standards

• ISA CAPP designation — 2023
• Art Forecaster Market Trends — 2021
• ISA Advanced Appraisal Methodology and Report Writing — 2018
• ISA Five-Year Requalification — 2018
• Appraising in the World of High-Net-Worth Individuals — 2018
• Finding Comparables in the Middle Market — 2018
• Valuation Principles and Procedures — 2017
• Market Research: From Authentication to Valuation — 2017; ISA Broad Evidence Rule — 2015

USPAP and Ethics

• USPAP Fifteen-Hour Course for 2025–2026 — 2025
• USPAP Review Course for 2023–2024 — 2023
• USPAP Seven-Hour Update for 2020–2021 — 2020
• Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art: Ethics and Methods — 2020
• USPAP Seven-Hour Course — 2018
• Performing Evaluations in Compliance with USPAP — 2017

Fine Art Study

• Appraising Pablo Picasso, Part 1 — 2020
• Rare Portraits by Gilbert Stuart — 2020
• Understanding Historic Frames — 2020
• Chinese Porcelain Mania, Parts I and II — 2020
• Buddhism and Symbolism in Asian Art — 2020
• Prints and Multiples, Heritage Auctions — 2017
• ISA Fine Arts Specialty Classes, Chicago — 2015

Specialized Personal Property

• Petroliana and Automobilia — 2020
• Mid-Century Modern — 2020
• American Furniture 101 — 2020
• Introduction to Appraising Rugs — 2020
• Book Appraisal Methodology and Basics — 2020
• Fundamentals of Clocks for Appraisers — 2020
• How to Appraise Pianos; Introduction to Appraising Wine — 2020
• Appraisal Institute Jadeite Seminar — 2017

Legal and Expert-Witness Training

• Appraisal Review / Expert Witness with Leon Castner — 2026
• The Expert Witness Appraiser — 2021

Conferences and Leadership

• ISA Assets Educational Conferences — multiple years, 2016–2024
• Ambassador and mentor to new appraisers — 2016–2026
• ISA Director of Education Office Hours — 2017–2026
• Working with Regional Auction Houses — 2020

Define the Assignment

Becky begins with the client, intended users, intended use, effective date, property categories, available documentation, type of value, and decisions the appraisal is expected to support.

Inspect, Identify and Research

The work may include inspection, photography, measurements, description, condition observations, object identification, provenance review, market selection, comparable analysis, and specialist consultation when appropriate.

Report the Results Clearly

Becky connects the property evidence, market research, methodology, assumptions, and conclusions in a report intended to be understandable to attorneys, fiduciaries, tax professionals, insurers, collectors, and private clients.