My husband and I purchased our home two years ago for 150,000. It was recently reassessed by the town for 311,000.We have a small 3 bedroom house with a detached garage with an in-law apartment over it, all on less then an acre of land. When it was reassessed, the company didn’t have a lot of the same situations to compare it to(2 separate buildings on 1 parcel of land), so they compared each to houses worth around 160,000. and added them together! how can they compare the value of a garage (with an apartment) to a house with its own land and its own detached garage? Our mortgage payment has jumped 300 because of the taxes, and we are a family of 7 with only my husbands income. we have small children and can’t afford daycare for me to work. We did an informal grievance and it was lowered to 285,000. We missed the formal grievance and figured there was nothing we could do. I found out recently how the company did the reassessment. A rep at the Bureau of Taxation said that the company "Did a lot of creative things". The assessor says there probably could be lowered, but we have to wait until next may to fix it. We probably will lose the house by then. What can we do?
The company is Gar associates. They were hired by the town. I was told by someone in the office of the Bureau of Taxation that "Gar did some creative things."
Sorry, once the county grievance process is done, the process is finished for that year. You can certainly grieve the assessment next year, and you might even be able to win a rebate on this year’s taxes (although usually that is not possible). For this year, it’s done.
You can always file suit against the county for not properly selecting and supervising their contractor, but your costs will likely be far higher than your tax bill.
What "company" are you talking about? Are you saying that the county tax assessor hired a company to make the assessment?
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oh my! the appraiser hired by the county has messed you guy up. You need to find out who and in fact call an appraiser in the area and get one done so you can get this fixed. Oh by the way he has errors and omission insurance so yes you can sue him for damages if he total messed this one up
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Sorry, once the county grievance process is done, the process is finished for that year. You can certainly grieve the assessment next year, and you might even be able to win a rebate on this year’s taxes (although usually that is not possible). For this year, it’s done.
You can always file suit against the county for not properly selecting and supervising their contractor, but your costs will likely be far higher than your tax bill.
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contact an attorney for this. There isn’t much you can do personally other than contacting the county again and requesting a special hearing.
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Wow, they have put you in a real pickle here. I am so sorry you have to go through this because it’s just really wrong for them to screw up this bad and just brush you off like that. Unfortunately, you may end up paying even more because you really need an attorney. I would definitely go after whoever assessed the home.
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