ASSESSMENT APPEAL APPLICATION DEADLINE
- Remember the Assessor is ALWAYS right about your assessment unless you want to lose.
- Remember that your assessment was created on October 1st of last year. Example October 1st 2012 for the year 2013.
- Alwys find 3 good reasonable sales and find those closed sales between January and December of last year. Example 2012 for tax year 2013.
- Remember NOT to talk about your neighbor's assessment unless you want to lose. 1 strike
- Rember NOT to mention your own property taxes unless you want to lose. 2 strikes
- Breaking up your assessment between land and building is a sure way to weaken your case for reduction. 3 strikes
- While you may not rest on the 7th day, the Assessor does!
- consider if you are the expert or if you NEED an expert (appraiser etc) . Experts have boundaries and lend credence to the sales.
- Contrary to what you may think, you may need an Attorney, especially if you are an LLC or Corp. Any and ALL experts MUST be with you at the meeting!
- Chapter 123 - is a "cautionary tale" of potentially winning the battle but losing the War.
- Consider filing your appeal and documentation Online.
- ALWAYS BE CONFIDENT! Do not be distracted and always give an honest courteous response.
- ALWAYS Direct your remarks and responses to the Commissioner, not necessarily to the Assessor, Attorney or the Representative from the Revaluation company.
- Always start your testimony by describing you house, land, or building. Example: the style, how many bedrooms, how many baths, basement/no basement, garage/no garage, deck, fireplace, air conditioning, are you on a busy street or not, do you have a water view or are you on the waterfront, the size of your lot - describe the condition of your home in terms of good, average, fair or poor.
- BE PREPARED to tell the Commissioner in a sentence or two why your Assessment does not represent Market Value.
- COMPARE and describe the closed comparable Sales you selected ending withthe closed price and date it closed
- Confidently End with YOUR Opinion of what you believe the value of your property should be based upon your comparable sales information which you presented.