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Lah
| | Posted on Friday, January 19, 2001 - 10:07 pm: |     |
I met with Certified today and it appears that many of us on the west side will be getting a $50K reduction in our assessed values. If I understood them correctly, they were formerly assessing us $220K just for living in our neighborhood. Now they will be assessing us $170K (and this charge seems independent of a separate charge for your actual land). My house value went down by exactly $50K, so I assume the math is $220-$170K (and I said it to the rep from Certified, but she would neither confirm nor deny that I was correct). Originally the neighborhood charges ranged from $100K to $220K and they now range from $100K to $170K. If someone else understands this neighborhood charge thing better than I do, I would appreciate a better explanation. |
Citizen
| | Posted on Friday, January 19, 2001 - 11:55 pm: | |
Lah...
Did the Certified rep happen to say whether this was the reduction/readjustment outlined in the letters supposedly sent out today? |
Bobk
| | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 3:41 am: | |
Is this the "street by street" review that the TC has asked Ed Gallante to conduct? |
Lah
| | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 9:29 am: | |
Certified told me that other people in my neighborhood (which they would not define) were getting letters that reflected the same reduction in the "neighborhood charge" that they told me about verbally. From what I can tell, it was not a "street by street" review, but rather a "neighborhood by neighborhood" review. It would be nice to know how they define neighborhood.... |
Ffof
| | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 2:33 pm: | |
looks like you're going to have to wait til tuesday's meeting to ask, unless mr. galante (or a representative of Certified!!)reads and responds to this board. |
Wilbur
| | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 4:21 pm: | |
We got our letter from Certified today and our assessed value was reduced by about $30,000, which amounts to about 6% of our home's valuation in the first letter. I guess a 6% reduction is better than nothing, but are still fighting it, because it's still $70,000 more than we paid for the house just seven months ago. |
Dytunck
| | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 5:23 pm: | |
Does CVI or the TC think these reduction letters are going to pacify the voices of outrage? |
Maggie
| | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 5:58 pm: | |
Dytunck
FYI ... not all revision letters received today necessarily indicated a reduction from the original assessment. Voice of outrage, to be sure. |
Dytunck
| | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 6:33 pm: | |
Maggie,
I saw your other posting. $36K More!! Did you go a-huntin' fer possum and strike a bubb-a-lin brew of black gold since October? I am sorry for you and share your disgust.
So they are admitting to the entire town that they made mistakes in the order of tens of thousands of dollars without ever revisiting the homes that are being re-valued? |
Maggie
| | Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2001 - 7:15 pm: | |
Dytunck
Like most posters to this board, attendees of the 1/16 TC meeting (citizens and Committee members alike), and practically everyone behind closed doors and in the streets of our town, I have no idea what Certified's methodology might be ... particularly with regard to adjusting my assessment upwards for no apparent reason.
Perhaps Certified revisited my block and decided, after the fact, that a "view" of CHS was a positive "data point" that they hadn't previously taken into consideration.
Maggie |
Debby
| | Posted on Sunday, January 21, 2001 - 11:05 am: | |
So is this a $50K reduction for everybody on the west side, or just those who met with Certified? |
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