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Propery appraisals - another homeowner’s story
Helen Plank just called to tell me how impressed she was by how Butler County Auditor Roger Reynolds’ office responded to her concerns about how her property was appraised in this year’s controversial tax reappraisal.
We first met Helen at a town hall meeting at Ross Twp., where Reynolds suggested that the public contact his office and he can help them if they think their appraisals are too high. Here’s that number again: (513) 887-3154.
And help they did, Plank said. She owns several houses in Trenton and saw all of their taxable values reduced considerably, she said, and someone from the office spent a few days at her house pouring over the records.
Her home’s tax value originally shot from $61,000 to $116,230, she said, but the auditor’s office dropped it back to $62,500 — “there’s not a $50,000 home on my street, except for mine,” she said. Another house’s value dropped from about $52,000 to $51,000 with help from the auditor’s office, when that office originally had it at $70,000. Yet another home’s tax value dropped from $80,000 to $46,590, she said.
She said they were very responsive to her needs.
This is in sharp contrast to George Kiniyalocts, a Middletown property owner who is not pleased with the process.
Have you contested your property values? What was your experience?
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