Got a letter stating a tax assessor is planning to come by my home and inspect. I am generally adverse to any assessor coming to my home, as I suspect much of PrepHole is. They want to see the interior of my home, which I have the right to refuse. But if I refuse they have the right to make assumptions that would ultimately raise my annual tax bill. What do you think PrepHole would you let them in?
Just pretend you have a hoarder mentality and just fill the place up with free shit from curbsides and estate sales to the point the guy can't walk very far in. He'll just assume you're a schizo that's ruining the place.
based , but would probably cost a lot of $
>probably cost a lot of $
Let it be known you're having a "dick the assessor party." Friends and family loan you the shit on their garage for a week.
A community really comes together when it comes time to fricking the government.
Also, boxes stacked under real, aged boxes are cheap.
Gonna have to amp Up the urine collection though. Cut it with orange juice.
Maybe the latest jar gets a bit of red food coloring. He might cut you some slack since you're dying.
>Let it be known you're having a "dick the assessor party." Friends and family loan you the shit on their garage for a week.
>A community really comes together when it comes time to fricking the government.
thats genius
Just check the free section on craigslist, or even just drive around your town around the end of the month looking for free stuff piles on the curb. You should be able to fill a pickup truck with old furniture in an hour or two.
Make sure to look disheveled and unkempt as possible, maybe make some growling noises. as long as it looks like your schizophrenia is flaring up
find a free shitty rug somewhere, bring it in the house, and take a shit on it before they come over, throw it out when they leave
Just be super creepy about it. Be way to excited for him to be there. Insist on showing him the crawlspace while you stand inches away mouth breathing on him. Make all his warning lights go off cause he thinks your gonna make lingerie from his skin. You probably won't even need the extra shit in your house. The creepy part would be to have it spotless.
So he reschedules and comes back with armed deputies.
But when they arrive, the house isn't there. In fact, the address doesn't even exist.
never let any government official or agent in your home without a warrant. tell that homosexual to pound sand
>They want to see the interior of my home, which I have the right to refuse.
Well no shit anon
The whole point of the tax assessor seeing the inside of your home is only if you have done some big renovation which would make the house more valuable.
If you a havent, they wont come in as there is no point.
Its still the same amount of bedrooms, still the same amount of bathrooms, still same square footage, you still dont have central air. Nothing changes.
They arent the permit guys, or the code officer, they arent the insurance company.
They dont give a shit if its tidy or not, its not their concern. The bare skeleton of the house, everything thats bolted down is what they are looking at.
The fact that nobody else in this thread knows that is telling.
Bunch of rentcucks and neets who have never owned a home before.
PrepHole is filled with underagers.
>renovate a bathroom to have a shower
>suddenly your 2 21/2 bath is suddenly a 3 11/2 bath
>taxes go up
>he also decides the house has a finished basement now because you added flooring
>taxes go up
never let these homosexuals in your fricking house
Assessors will probably measure your homes exterior and confirm that there has been no changes in GLA, site improvements, or land assemblage.
They see thousands of homes and can likely identify if there is some interior improvement that would increase the value above GLA and site. Like if someone upgraded from asphalt shingles to slate, maybe there are high end interior improvements.
Your poor ass has nothing to worry about.
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imagine if you beheaded him and posted it back to the tax office. You'd be locked up but it would sure make those tax assessors a little less nosy for a bit, haha
>get black tooth paint and paint on a few random teeth so it looks like their missing
>wrap one leg up in a bunch of white bandages (like a cast) and get some crutches to hobble around on
>Get some really old looking glasses with mismatched lenses
>get a old shitty hearing aid with out the battery and keep yelling for them to speak up
>hide any nice stuff like a flat screen tv (go find and old crt) or any nice coffee machine
>take off your watch, wear some shitty clothes from the local thrift store.
>if you have a car park it around the corner and just have a rusty bike out front.
>don't shave, get a haircut, shower or brush your teeth either
>try randomly whimpering and seeming really sad.
>if you have an old grandpa/grandma just ask them to come over and sit in a wheelchair and look sad
>get a shitty flip phone (doesn't have to work) go in the other room like your taking a call and complain about how you're trying to get money to pay the hostpital bill (for your bad leg that you're hobbling around on) but money is just really tight right now.
>Go on linkedin and and see if you can find out who the assessors are and research them. If you can make some connection to them/their personality and seem pathetic, they might go easy.
Make it seam like you are incredibly pathetic and messed up and try to get some sympathy points.
Let him in, offer him refreshments and be a pleasant host. Instead of being an insufferable antisocial piece of shit.
>appease your oppressors
what kinda unamerican shit is this, tell that useless fricker he aint commin in. Sure he'll pout about how taxes are for the good of the community, but thats because his pensions on the line. He's got 4 more years until retirement, and then he can finally move to florida and not pay state income tax. poor lil baby has it so hard
>t. government employee
I pay your salary, leech.
Tell them to eat shit.
I was a tax assessor. If you haven't done any world shattering improvements, your bill won't change much. Go get your tax card, familiarize yourself with what you're being assessed for, and check for errors. Chances are there are some. Then, show the guy everything that's fricked up. I probably lowered just as many assessments as I raised when visiting random houses. The real enemies aren't assessors, it's the frickers who do the spending at municipal/county level, depending on your region.
BTW I quit assessing because every town I worked in ended up having people on the board of selectmen etc who threatened my employment when I started pointing out corruption or dysfunction and wouldn't give special treatment to the "right" people. I'm retraining now to become a data analyst, wish me luck, anons
>quit assessing because every town I worked in ended up having people on the board of selectmen etc who threatened my employment when I started pointing out corruption or dysfunction
Should have gone out being a complete dick right back at them.
I kinda did in one town, by leaving before a big project was finished - but that one was already going south because covid was just getting started and our contracted company lied about what they could deliver... and also because members of the select board were publicly urging people not to cooperate with the program. But still, always makes me feel bad, though, because the people who get screwed over end up being the taxpayers, just because a few people at the top are asshats who are impervious to realizing they're the bad guys anyway. Found out after I left they've been spreading rumors that my wife left me because I was hiring prostitutes, that I was a drug addict, etc...
>I'm retraining now to become a data analyst, wish me luck, anons
Good luck
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the hero we need, but dont deserve
my tax assessor never actually stopped by, just made dishonest claims that the houses value increased by 40,000 due to improvements
currently fighting that.
Improvements, or changing market conditions? Property values have been on a steady upwards climb for quite some time. They ARE gonna go in the toilet soon, though, and there ARE some assessors who at pieces of shit, so your experience isn't unheard of. It's far less common than you'd think, though
improvements, i think they assume the people who sold it to us (just over a year ago) must have made improvements, or that we did after buying it.
if anything though the opposite is true, the garage is marked on our papers as being 20-20 but after measuring it, its only 13-17. no clue how that happened.
One of three things is happening here.
1. A lot of assessors keep photos of every property (not available for the public to view, only for the property owner due to privacy concerns). People often fix things up without pulling permits. Unfortunately for their buyers, many assessors view every property that comes up for sale on zillow/redfin/etc, and compare listing photos to the photos in their database. So, when houses go up for sale, we finally find out what's changed in houses we're not allowed into.
2. Your assessor is a shitbag who "chases sales." Assessors have to prove to the state that their assessments are equitable - that is, either all close to market value, or all off by a similar percentage. Your tax bill is determined by figuring out what your share of the jurisdiction's total valuation is, and then making you pay a proportional amount of the jurisdiction's spending. If you own 10% of the county's value, you're on the hook for 10% of spending. So, if everyone's value is wrong by the same percentage, you can still accurately figure out what your share is. Problems come when people's values are off by very different amounts. If one neighborhood is assessed at 90% of market value and another is assessed at 60% - the people at 90% are getting fricked over. Most assessors look for these inequalities. However, if there's a reason they don't want to change their system - political pressure, lack of capability, corruption - when a sale comes in that suggests their assessing system is out of whack, they find some reason that individual record was wrong - "he made improvements I didn't know about! He actually had more square footage! We had incorrect data about the physical upkeep of the property!" And change just your assessment before the auditors check their work against sales. They "chase" the sale value intead of admitting to the state their system needs an update. Chasing sales is illegal and assessors who do it should get fricked.
3. Sometimes assessors are just working with really shitty databases and just aren't allowed the manpower or money to fix em, so they're just playing whackamole trying to fix what they can when they see it. I worked in towns where the previous assessor died in office from pancreatic cancer, the one before that was an alcoholic who was drinking on the job, and the one before that was in cahoots with the code officer and a local developer to cheat on taxes and make a killing on sales. This is the town that screwed me over, by the way - shit management attracts shit workers, and sometimes there's an enduring culture of shit leadership. If a decent assessor lands in one of these jobs, they're in a catch 22 - either they just let things stay shit or they try to run around putting out fires. These cases suck for property owners much the same way it does when the assessor is chasing sales, but it's not so much the assessor's fault. It's a hard one to get right, and a lot of folks aren't up to the job. I ended up being one of them. I tried to make it right, get help, be creative in order to get things done as fairly as possible, but it ground me down not to be able to do my job right. I hear they've hired and fired 2 people after me and now they can't find anyone. Figures.
Either way, it's hard to know which one is going on. Imo it's always worth it to at least get your property record card, to be informed, to approach the assessor directly and openly, and to try to take the high road. If the assessor is a scumbag, they're going to screw you regardless. If they're not, your assessment may end up unchanged, or even go down, but there's no guarantee. You should definitely ask them what improvements they think were made to justify that increase, though. I wish you luck. Let me know if you have any questions.