Anyone in the city doing it?   Of course they should.

But if you look at the tentative roll, you'll see that it lists one number for full value and another number for assessed value.   The full values are lower than the assessed values

Of course those full values are much higher than they really are, but people will need to look at what they think is the full value of their homes and then ask for an assessed value maybe a few hundred dollars more, just to keep the relationship of those two values.

Wonder how the new assessor is.   They don't even have a link on the city website direct to forms.   People instead get linked to the main page for the state tax dept.  Of course, that's the easy way out for the city, don't provide any information itself, just send them on to another website.   Why doesn't the city state on it's website what the equalization rate is?   Why should people have to click around to a gazillion other  places to find it?

In fact, on the city's website it has a "Legend" but that Legend does NOT explain ALL the columns on the tentative assessment roll.  This is the sneaky thing.   The city is not clearly explaining the full value, land value, and assessed value figures and the first two are critically important to a successful grievance.


DV, don't bother responding to this because you don't have any knowledge on assessments, property ownership, and taxes.




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