Comments on: Wait Until July 2nd to Appeal: 1,500 Decatur Properties To Be Reassessed (and an Explanation)

By: DEM

DEM — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 20:22:49 +0000

Last year they gave me an absurdly high appraisal. I appealed immediately. The county called and said we have your appeal, and whoops!, we made a mistake. A new appraisal is coming. It did. They called again and said now will you withdraw your appeal? I said no. So then they said, what if we reduce the appraisal below the revised one you just got? So then we agreed on a valuation and it was over.

I wasn’t sure of the revised appraisal entirely negated my first appraisal or the appeal. But the county very much acted as if it did not. So, for whatever that is worth.

My .02, I would not modify my existing appreal if I were you. Wait to see what, if anything, the county actually does. Then you can withdraw if you’d like, appeal the new appraisal, etc. The last thing I would do is tamper with an existing, timely appeal.

By: DawgFan

DawgFan — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:38:39 +0000

Were 1,500 properties selected b/c of identified errors or did they just arbitrarily pick 1,500 to try to appease everyone? If the latter, although a step in the right direction, fixing only 20% isn’t much of a solution.

By: DawgFan

DawgFan — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:35:57 +0000

Many of those households are in apartments and public housing, and those households don’t have a separate tax parcel number. The “property” would be the apartment complex for tax purposes.

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:08:38 +0000

When can we discuss what the City will be doing with all this new revenue? Is it all necessary? If not, how about reducing the millage?

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 14:05:49 +0000

+100