Legacy Appraisal Services, LLC.
About Legacy Appraisal Services, LLC.
Legacy Appraisal Services works from High Springs and is listed with the Florida Forest Service for timberland and farmland appraisal across all sixty-seven Florida counties, but its own site aims much wider and much higher up the ownership scale. The headline reads 'Specialists in All Aspects of Timberland Investment Valuation', and the firm describes itself as specialising in the valuation and financial analysis of the timberland asset across the entire Southeast, Northeast, Appalachian states and Lake States regions of the United States, as well as Central and South America, with region pages for each. The services page is built around four headings: timberland portfolio valuations, due diligence, ownership rights and encumbrances, and estate planning and fractional ownership. In practice that covers quarterly, annual and biannual valuations for investment performance reporting, identifying and valuing higher and better use opportunities, cash flow modelling and harvest scheduling on acquisitions and dispositions, financial optimisation and sensitivity analysis, and market valuations of undivided family interests for federal gift tax, estate tax compliance, intergenerational transfer and partitioning. The about page says the firm routinely values conservation easements, mitigation banks and lease fee and leasehold ownership, and extends to mineral income and carbon credits where a portfolio includes them. The clients it names are largely institutional, among them timberland investment management organisations, trust funds and endowments, conservation groups and land trusts, forest products companies, banks and wealth managers, pension and hedge funds, estate lawyers and government agencies, alongside private landowners. Staff are described as MAI and certified general appraisers licensed in every state the firm works in, with a combined 50 years of experience in the forest products industry; Scott Brodbeck, Jesse Studley and Scott Twillmann are the three people named. Work claimed since 2015 runs to over 38 million acres valued in the Southeast and over 12 million across the Northeast, Lake States and Appalachia. As described on legacyappraisal.biz, read 23 September 2026.
Can they handle a timber sale?
Selling standing timber properly takes three things. Here's what the state register credits this firm with.
Timber AppraisalAn estimate of what your standing timber is worth in dollars, based on how much there is, its quality, and current prices. When you are selling, settling an estate, dividing property, or need a value for taxes or insurance.What does this mean? → — not listed
works out what your standing timber is worth
Timber Cruise & Volume EstimateA field measurement of your standing trees — their species, sizes, and quality — that adds up to how much wood you actually have. Before you sell, so you go in knowing roughly what is out there rather than taking a buyer's word for it.What does this mean? → — not listed
measures and grades what's actually out there
Timber Sale & Contract AdministrationRunning the sale for you: advertising the timber, taking bids, writing the contract, and overseeing the logging so the agreed terms are met. When you want someone on your side handling the whole sale rather than dealing with buyers and loggers yourself.What does this mean? → — not listed
runs the sale and handles the contract
This firm isn't credited with all three, which doesn't make it a worse forester — plenty specialise in management planning, wildlife or wetlands. It does mean that if your goal is to sell timber, you'd likely need someone else for the part that's missing.
Everything they're registered for
Counties covered
This consulting forester covers the entire state of Florida. See Florida by county.
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