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I just got a flyer in the mail from our State Representative titled "How to effectively appeal your property assessment".

I'm Chairman of Board of Review. Kinda like giving the playbook to the other team. lol

At least he kept it simple and was fairly accurate. Unlike when our now Lieutenant Governor was running around giving lectures about it and feeding wrong information. Only thing I see wrong is a little bit of an assumption that the selling price effects your value. Not in Michigan. The info needs to be right before it's included in a sales study,but that effects everybody's value next year,not yours this year.
 
If it said more than "Don't bother, you will never get a hearing", then it is out and out fraud. Nobody hereabouts has even received a response to their request for a hearing in Lansing to appeal their property tax assessment in years. The local board declines every appeal and it stops right there.
 
I should also add we sold everything and left the state of MI. Have a lot lower taxes and value. But the old boy club is still in charge.
 
We are the cash cow. They don't need to raise taxes to raise revenues, just raise the assesment. City, County, State and Federal governments never recieved a dollar they could'nt find a place to spend. My rant gobble
 
There's about a 3 year backlog the last I knew. I know you'll get it eventually. I went once with the assessor to defend her side and the decision we made backing her up. We had a case with a commercial property where they sent a field rep right out to look at the place.

If you do ever make it there,be loaded for bear. They don't waste time if you don't know what you're doing. They're professionals not just folks who "live around here".
 
I'm with tomturkey, I've always said that when they quit voting the levies in they'll start re-assessing the value
 
I don't disagree with you,but if you want services,somebody has to pay for them. We aren't as dependent on property taxes to fund education as we used to be,but I like having the roads maintained and knowing that somebody will come if I call 911. Doesn't hurt to have a library or two around either.
When it comes right down to it,I pay more for my wind and fire and liability insurance than I do in taxes. Yes,I want it there if I need it,but I'm getting more bang for my buck with the taxes.
 
I called the county assessor to question why my taxes were assessed
the way they are. Not to gripe, just a conversation to understand.

He started out with "Oh yes, you're the guy that has...." and
then proceeded to describe my property off the top of his head.
He then explained to me why he assessed it as he did and why
it was cheaper for me in the long run to do it this way than it
was to change them to what I was thinking about doing.

I don't think I'd stand a chance at an appeal! LOL
 
The ones that get me are the ones who pay $300 for an appraisal when their SEV is a third to half again higher than their taxable. They think because we take a little off the SEV that they'll pay less in taxes. Doesn't work that way. Should'a saved their money and gotten a free pamphlet somewhere telling them how the property tax system works in Michigan.
 
Mine had to do with a property split and right of way for a road.
I did have an appraiser from the bank out here once, but not for that.
He couldn't find the property lines that I had marked with orange
flags. I think I'd take the word of the assessor first!
I don't think my property taxes are that bad really. I don't like
writing that check twice a year, but my heating bill costs more.
 
I fought one a couple of years ago. I replaced 2 windows. Assessor claimed in raised the value of my property 20K. I took the receipts and pictures in the county, they talked to this guy and raised the value by 1500 dollars.

Rick
 
Man, farm property taxes have gone up 20-30% a year in my county the past 4 years.

I understand its the land bubble, but man... The assessed value would go up and I understand, but its the tax that is going up just as fast.

Of course my rural county bought a block with a movie theater on it, and are building on more bigger court house buildings. Gotta pay for that somehow.

Paul
 
I don't know how it works everywhere else, but here the County tells the Town what their levy is and it's up to the Town to come up with the money. All the Assessor can do is try to make it fair. If Joe goes in and gets his assessment lowered $1K that money has to come from someplace else. What I'm saying isn't that we should all grin and bear it, but that none of this addresses the actual problem- SPENDING. Between unfunded mandates and regulations from Washington and Albany and the Counties idiotic decisions they always seem to come up with, our taxes are simply going to go up. The State is ending the practice of low balling Ag land and bringing it up to market value. I won't go into the politics of it, but it's spreading across the nation.
 
That shouldn't have happened and wouldn't have happened here if you'd have come to me. You're allowed $4500 per year in "maintenance" without it being added to your assessment. And that's every year,so if you want to spend $45,000 in "maintenance" over 10 years you can.
 
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