Property Tax Question
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We talked to them when they first moved in and no one seemed disabled. But I also have a disabled veteran as a tax client and you would never know it if he didn't tell you.
Yeah I would think it would be public information so you should be able to get the answer.
He paid $253k to buy it in 2015 so I’m guessing the assessment is based on increases since then.
It also shows a credit for the amount of tax due so it’s got to be disabled veteran credit.
It also shows a credit for the amount of tax due so it’s got to be disabled veteran credit.
My FIL was 100% disabled in his later years. I had no idea about that property tax law until after he died.
You can talk to all the courthouse workers you want, from what I've noticed the best way to get anything done is to donate to 2 of the usual 3 county supervisors elections campaigns. Do that and that creates a voice. Then try to get it classified as a nuisance property. I will warn you, that one remedy for this in the country is to put up tall fences or several layer tree lines just to hide it. Think of scrap yards with the tall tin sheet fences.
I wish you luck. If they are a disabled vet, I don't think there is going to be much way to gain traction on this.
Other option is to put "windbreaks" on the edge of your property to block the view and catch the garbage that blows.
I wish you luck. If they are a disabled vet, I don't think there is going to be much way to gain traction on this.
Other option is to put "windbreaks" on the edge of your property to block the view and catch the garbage that blows.
I will never understand property taxes/assessments. My next door neighbors spent $100,000 more for their house but it's appraised $50,000 less than ours (bought within 2 months of our house). A few years back I challenged my tax valuation with an independent appraisal (came in 100,000 less than tax valuation) and my tax guy said the appraisal was wrong and wouldn't change my valuation. I just grab my ankles and write the check. Oh, and when houses tanked in 2009 they lowered the valuation but raised the rate, and when house prices recovered they raised the valuation and kept the raised rates.
The County has made them pick up their garbage before when they had it piled up on the north side of the property and it was blowing into a different neighbors property.
Now they walk out the front door and toss it to a little trailer that sits in the SW corner of the property, most of the time missing the trailer and breaking open to blow onto my property and into my pond.
We are looking into lining that part of the property with weeping willow trees.
Just got the letter today they'll be doing ours 1st time since we built 7 yrs ago. Probably can't hide all the landscape work/patio/pergola well enough
. This will hurt.
My favorite was I bought a house that closed within a couple weeks of the point in the year when assessment is calculated. When it came back it was about $20,000 more than I paid for the house (which was a $100,000+ jump) so I appeal out of principal at the number I paid for it, because it would seem to me that would be about as good of evidence of fair market value of a property as you can get. So I go to the appeal meeting where they have 3 people and they put my house up on the screen, read out a few things, and then one guy asks if I’ll take a value that’s about $600 different than my purchase price/appeal, I just looked at him blankly for awhile before walking out. A clerk handed me a form to sign on my way out.
Are disable or they are 65+ and have a very low income.
isufbcurt’s land may be taxed as ag land and the neighbor’s isn’t therefore the neighbor has a higher valuation
isufbcurt’s land may be taxed as ag land and the neighbor’s isn’t therefore the neighbor has a higher valuation
This is peak CF. The CPA is asking us for tax advice.
If the current owners already are paying nothing, why would they bring attention to the property?
I’ve gone by that place multiple time and thought WOW what a dump lol
