tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post2398849803608676882..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-77099418207303419172007-06-29T12:39:00.000-05:002007-06-29T12:39:00.000-05:00Looks like my assessment is up close to 30% according to the Star's online databaseGary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-24551329006221657022007-06-29T09:31:00.000-05:002007-06-29T09:31:00.000-05:00Incongruities and inconsistencies amongst comparable properties is the reason the appellate system exists. <B>Your assessment is <I>NOT</I> fixed in stone.</B> Appeal it but use facts not fruitless emotionalism!Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-74611460209607368092007-06-29T08:42:00.000-05:002007-06-29T08:42:00.000-05:00Some advice. One thing everyone should do is find out what the assessed values of your neighbors homes are. Especially homes that are comparabel to yours in square footage, layout, etc. What I have found in my neighborhood is that there appears to be no rhyme or reason in the way homes were assessed. It was my understanding that "fair market value" was to be applied. There are two houses on my cul-de-sac that are comparable to mine but they are assessed $35,000 less than mine. This type of discrepancy persists throughout the neighborhood. This puts me and other homeowners in similar situations at an unfair market advantage and seems unconstitutional in my opinion.<BR/><BR/>Advance Indiana have you heard of anything like this going on and whether there is any recourse?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-5648582688330705752007-06-29T07:51:00.000-05:002007-06-29T07:51:00.000-05:00I paid $150K for a commercial building 3 years ago. I paid $3800.00 in property tax. I believe I paid my fair share. Can't wait to see how much more I'm going to pay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-47257650006698859672007-06-29T07:22:00.000-05:002007-06-29T07:22:00.000-05:00I know of many, many commercial properties who overpaid for years. So it's not uniform. Not even close.<BR/><BR/>It's time, again, to do what should've been done already: to ensure uniformity, one person per county should be in charge of this. Do away with township government altogether. It's expensive, duplicitous and wasteful.<BR/><BR/>A special session likely won't do much: the anti-Indianapolis sentiment is already rampant over there. If they have to come back to town for a special session, allegedly to deal with "an Indy prolem," can you imagine the grief those knuckleheads will foist on our city?<BR/><BR/>Here's a thought: look into TIFs and abatements. Some of those need to go away. Every little bit helps.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-58196604545757248052007-06-28T23:19:00.000-05:002007-06-28T23:19:00.000-05:00I can't wait to see the tax bill on my farm. Any rise will probably have doubled it over the last 5 years. Can't make any money even if corn prices go through the roof now. Indiana takes my windfall in taxes, and has over the last 4 years' rises.<BR/><BR/>*sigh*<BR/><BR/>Hey... a new session, maybe we can get them to reintroduce SJR-7 and hold up any tax legislation unless it is passed! Fun!<BR/><BR/>*sigh*Lynn Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02885808956452761511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-86230942585860064512007-06-28T21:40:00.000-05:002007-06-28T21:40:00.000-05:00can you say "KICKBACK"? How do you think these places get assessed at a lower rate? "Did you drop that hundred dollar bill? Are you sure it's worth that much?"<BR/>We know how the game is played. Just like the inspector who "finds" and envelope at a new septic tank inspection. "No problems here, passes inspection"<BR/>Could this be a possibility?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-78895760888842701102007-06-28T20:44:00.000-05:002007-06-28T20:44:00.000-05:00There are 1008 Assessors in Indiana (always have been). It's been a long-standing problem devising a system to ensure uniformity amongst those 1008. <BR/><BR/>The problem of under-assessing commercial property seems to have gone on for some time in most townships. This indicates not incompetence but something in the basic organization and system affecting all. I suspect the shock of the shift in assessment method of residential properties has diverted attention off of commercial property. Assessing commercial property is a very different animal than residential!Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-90345969034418631192007-06-28T20:32:00.000-05:002007-06-28T20:32:00.000-05:00I heard someone relate to me tonight a piece of commercial property near Broad Ripple which is easily worth $1 million but was assessed at only $150,000. That's a big problem. We have incompetent assessors who aren't doing their jobs in assessing business/commercial properties, which have changed very little over the past decade. That means homeowners have to make up the difference because the assessors aren't doing their jobs.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-40943479295105634022007-06-28T20:07:00.000-05:002007-06-28T20:07:00.000-05:00I'm in zip 46201 and my property tax increased $406.<BR/>Tax went from $623 to $1029.<BR/><BR/>The house was assessed for exactly what our mortgage is at not on what our home is worth which is much higher.<BR/><BR/>The assessor simply took the amount we financed which was $82,100 and figured the property tax from that number. I find that to be rather odd.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-62435104538961966782007-06-28T19:37:00.000-05:002007-06-28T19:37:00.000-05:00Tax bill:<BR/>https://www.civicnet.net/apps/property/information/ia/propertyWilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-83140003758040735842007-06-28T19:24:00.000-05:002007-06-28T19:24:00.000-05:00Wilson:<BR/><BR/>Where on Indygov.org can one find their property tax bill?<BR/><BR/>Thanks.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-8665074061633181392007-06-28T18:54:00.000-05:002007-06-28T18:54:00.000-05:006:35pm, I agree totally, millions statewide are lost on undervalued or revalued commercial property. If we are going to let the businesses have their way with no inventory tax then the very least that can be done is for their commercial properties to be taxed at 2007 market value just like our homes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-16909253894015568652007-06-28T18:35:00.000-05:002007-06-28T18:35:00.000-05:00While the increases are due to a variety of factors, homeowners are really getting a bum deal. Many townships and counties in the state didn't reassess commercial property. Businesses are still at 1999 values in those areas. Homes have been bumped up seven years. It is a continued shift of the property tax burden from business to homeowners. <BR/><BR/>I do not think most of our legislators were aware that this was going to happen. There is good reason to hold the special session.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-86266171036143776712007-06-28T17:45:00.000-05:002007-06-28T17:45:00.000-05:00FYI: your new property tax information (and bill!) is available already on the Internet at www.indygov.org . There's a $4.08 fee to access it at home right now...Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-64299565640810264332007-06-28T17:40:00.000-05:002007-06-28T17:40:00.000-05:00I notice Barty didn't say just WHO was going to pay for that special session. Nothing is free. Maybe Bart "fiscally conservative" Peterson will dip in to his pocket? Ha!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com