Recent content by lute1812

Just to update ALL after my BOR's AV drop to $53,800 I followed up with the Tax Tribunal for my 2012 Assessment - detailed in a number of wrenching posts on this board. On 10/9/12 the Township Assessor called and I stated I'm willing for an offer before the Tax Tribunal meeting scheduled in...

Trying to find US distributors for steel cages to put around exterior security cameras. I've got a camera that hangs about 9 feet from the ground that I'm going to install, only place to locate to scan that area, and I would like to protect it by putting a steel cage over it. Doing some...

Under the 'Terms of Sale' in the 'Sales INFORMATION' section of a property assessment there is a home transferred from the 'Habitat For Humanity' to a homeowner and it was noted as 'Not a Market Sale' for $100,000 in 6/2011, where 'Habitat For Humanity' purchased the property (Foreclosure) a...

For an update I looked at my township's website this afternoon and the assessed value went down from 58,300 to 53,800. Yes I checked my 'notice of assessed value' and a printed copy of my file from last week so it has changed a smidgen, no typo. Printed off the information from the MI tax...

Only 2k above other 2-3 homes, but they are castles compared to mine; new double windows, new roofs, ... homes that have been maintained-and-upgraded over the last 45 years (the single lady-owner died in her mid-80s and her daughter sold home vacant 2 years later whom I bought from) this prior...

That's what I'm looking for. By lowering AV (in Michigan) the TV must be less than or equal to it -- so down goes taxes for my property. Taxes are based on TV not SEV. TV can only increase a max 5% a year where there's no ceiling on AV increases. So if I got what I requested, which I'm...

Thanks. Went to mtg, had pictures of bad areas of home, licensed appraisal which was substantially below AV, but my assessment is about $2k above similar properties, ... but the difference is the lady who owned it didn't upgrade-or-maintain it for 45 years. One problem is only a couple homes...

I can't find any info on how much the property's TV can go below a SEV, if there's ranges, ...? Additional input on the notice my AV=SEV=TV = 58,300. Pertaining to SEV: Is there a max that the SEV can decrease to, some percentage, ...? Reading some info from Michigan.gov website it mentions...

Thanks. There are a number of issues that irritate me . 1. I have not received a penny depreciation since I bought the home in 8/09, I did a survey last years of appraised values of all my neighbors on parallel streets and my own. On 6 streets there were 319 property taxpayers, in 2010 ALL...

My property was assessed at $116,600 (2x58,300) in 2012 in the state of MI, I went to a protest mtg yesterday, after not receiving any depreciation on my property since purchase in 7/09 (nearly three years), with a licensed certified state of MI appraiser's report that valued my property at...