[quote=Jacarandoso]BG, When the assessor “voluntarily” lowered your taxes, was it the result of an application? Did they just lower the assessment without you asking? I should have done something sooner, but mine is now 100k-150K too high.[/quote]
Yes, Russell, in ’07 and ’08, it was by application. In August of ’08 (on the eve of the ’07 hg), I stipulated to an agreement to drop the hg. By the time of my ’08 application, they didn’t have the resources to go to hg, due to sheer volume of applications so I called my local appraiser at what was the (now closed) South County Assessor Branch Office and we agreed to sold comps over the phone (I myself am a former “county bureaucrat”). When that assessment was processed (in writing) to what we agreed on, I withdrew my appeal. In ’09, the assessor voluntarily lowered my taxes a little more. In ’10, “Prop 8” kicked in and they lowered them drastically across the board.
