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Have you received your
reassessment yet? Wow, talk about a surprise. A friend of mine who is on the reassessment board told me at church a couple of weeks ago that he thought I would be pleased with the reassessments. I thought he was serious. How was I supposed to know he was kidding?
There are a couple of points about this process that are actually funny. You have to laugh about it, because you are going to go nuts if you try to make sense of it. The first silliness is the position that they are trying to get as close to actual fair market value as they can. That’s not the case.
The last time the reassessment was done, we had just bought a little two- acre rock pile that gets flooded every time it rains. It was assessed for six times what we paid for it, and we had just bought it. I pointed that out to them last time. No change. So much for the facade of fair market value.
Think that’s bad? This time around, that same rock pile, which was flooded in 1995 and again in 1997, enough so that it moved chestnut logs off an old house foundation, has increased in the new assessment 1233 percent. That’s right, over 12 times more than the last inflated assessment.
And the house we bought last year ... now, remember, it
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