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Location: Never in one place long | We have a meeting to appeal our increase on property tax... it has been steadily increasing the past years and I think it's just too high.. we have done a lot to the inside of our house but not a lot to the outside... what are the best points to make? We have a list of comparable homes in our area but to me, it's hard to tell what to argue... |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: SE KS | I live in one of the highest taxed counties in KS, & our property tax seemed out of whack. I believe I had tried to refinance mine, & had a relatively new appraisal of our property & appealed the taxes. It wasn't a "big production" deal, I simply took my information with me & explained my view on it. There was only one person I was meeting with, rather informal, she took my information & reviewed it later & they adjusted the value. That was a few years ago, so I don't know if the process has changed or not!!
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| In TX they appraise by the number of square feet. A two story house would not appraise as high as a 1 story with eh same number of square feet |
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 The Vaccinator
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Location: Slipping down the slope of old age. Boo hoo. | Wishing you luck! I am trying - into the third year -- to get our shop and horse barn moved to the correct parcel of land. And now they have our new home on the wrong parcel. I have been repeatedly told it has been corrected, but got my tax statement last week. No, it is STILL wrong. I now have copies of my parcel cards and Google earth snapshots and I guess I will be headed to a county equalization board meeting soon.
The parcel they placed our buildings on is in the city limits. The buildings are ALL located on a parcel NOT in the city limits. It's a mess that no one in that office can seem to understand and fix.
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Miracle in the Making
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| here in georgia get it apprassied by a reg appraier then look at similiar type home and land here they also go by roof line fancy roof more thane a straight roof
be prepared i have gotten my down several time but its rip ff to be sure |
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Location: texas | informal like the previous post show them the comps to similair homes and what they sold for recently slo look at what your neighbors are paying and compare I had luck getting mine adjsuted but be aggreable and resonable and reach a compromise |
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 Dog Resuce Agent
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Location: southeast Texas | The properties around me, large $$ homes have been built, jacking my property taxes up. One year they took away my agg exemption and I had to go down there and protest. Didn't bring any thing. Just said I couldn't afford over doubling my tax rate. The guy helped me to fill out form and I got my agg exempt back. |
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