It would appear that if your business is doing good then the town wants to take a larger portion of your income for themselves. The reval has already been completed and John's business was assessed at $150,000 how can the value of his business almost double without any improvements being made to it. It would sure appear that John is being punished for running a successful business in the town of Rotterdam.
if this is an if P then Q statement.......then the Dems and Reps are ALL the same.......watch Pelosi's eyes and read the 'elephants' lips.......they are all the same and 'the machine' is broken this is a shakedown of monumentous proportions.....in all municipalities.....the snowball is rolling and getting bigger......there is no global warming and the earth is not going to freeze....but the good 'ole U S of A is shaking......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
make the guy pay he is a business man and he HAS THE MONEY what is the problem over here people? Its the seniors that dont have the money and need the breaks
make the guy pay he is a business man and he HAS THE MONEY what is the problem over here people? Its the seniors that dont have the money and need the breaks
seriously 'SALVATORE', get a grip. go crawl back under the rock you've apparently been living under. NICE JOB buddy- you completely missed the point.
The reassessment seems unfair and ridiculous. AND Personal Income should have nothing to do with the value of a property. I hope Mr. K obtains an attorney and fights this.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Probably if we all bit** enough! I'd surely welcome it!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Rotterdam official: Number of assessment fights typical Thursday, May 21, 2009 By Justin Mason (Contact) Gazette Reporter
ROTTERDAM — John Kwiatkowski can’t understand why the assessed value of his auto body repair shop nearly doubled this year. The owner of Rotterdam Auto Services was shocked when the town informed him that the 3,756-square-foot block garage on a third of an acre off Westside Avenue is now worth $279,000. The one-story structure he built himself in 1975 was valued at $150,000 during Rotterdam’s reassessment in 2007. Kwiatkowski insists that he’s checked other similar commercial properties and found that his assessment of about $74 per square foot is nearly twice the value of other automotive repair shops in the area. And he’s fairly certain that his business is the only one in the area that was so drastically reassessed. “Something’s not fair here,” he said Wednesday, vowing to grieve his property value before the town’s Board of Assessment Review next week. “My biggest question is why me and nobody else?” Kwiatkowski is among about 60 businesses and residents that have filed grievances over their assessments. Rotterdam Assessor Craig Surprise said the number of grievances is on par with the number of disputed assessments the town normally receives. “It’s not really a lot,” he said from his office. “People aren’t asking for big reductions for the most part.” Surprise said some grievances are resulting from corrections he’s made to the property tax rolls after reviewing roughly 1,300 parcels — or about 10 percent of the town’s property tax roll — over the past year. In some cases, he said he’s still cleaning up incorrect data collected during the revaluation. For instance, Surprise said he found a number of tax roll errors among the properties he examined along Rotterdam’s border with Schenectady. He believes that Kwiatkowski’s garage wasn’t included in the value of his property because the data collector in 2007 mistakenly considered it part of Schenectady’s tax roll. “It’s not like he’s being singled out,” he said. “We probably looked at 140 [properties], and he wasn’t the only one that was reassessed on the line.” The Town Assessor’s Office also has the benefit of new technology to root out errors in data collection. About a month ago, Surprise began using Pictometry, a satellite imaging program that allows him to access high-quality, three-dimensional views of the town and provides him with tools to perform a number of measurements. Another change that could affect the town is the state’s overall reduction in the value of the town’s railroad property. The state Office of Real Property Services determines ceiling values for property owned by a number of interstate railroad companies............................>>>>............>>>>........http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2009/may/21/0521_assess/
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Sales per square foot probably or the rent his company pays him for the property usage.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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