for many commerical/residential properties.
residential increase amount we have heard most often today is 40%.
some commercial properties doubled in value.
how did you fare?
are the new figures for your property reasonable?
will you appeal?
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My house in the city went up 30%. Where did this value come from?
I've been reading in the paper increases were coming but I wasn't prepared to get screwed.
My house in the city went up 30%. Where did this value come from?
I've been reading in the paper increases were coming but I wasn't prepared to get screwed.
My assessment was so filled with errors it wasn't funny. Attempting to appeal was a joke. Who do these people think they are?
I wonder where this collection of fools think the money for this fantasy increase is supposed to come from? Everything else is cutting back except for the stupid government.
Soap box, ballet box, cartridge box. The founders told us what we would need to do to reboot our government.
who came up with this my house had a fire and will never sell i smell smoke of a diffirent kind up town 45% raise ? they be smoking in the shower!
I warned everyone last year! Only 5 people protested the tax increase because they only shafted 1/3 of the digest!!!
Everyone else is welcomed aboard!!!
The total tax increase last year was $1,300,000 and there will be a big increase again this year!!!
If you do not protest the valuations and then go the the Commissioners meetings and force rated reductions at least equal to the % increase, you will get what we got last year!!!!
YOU MUST PROTEST THE RATES WITH THE COMMISSIONERS!!!!!
You must also protest rate increases with the School Board.
I AM GETTING SCREWED WITH OUT AN ORGASM
Commissioner Hardwick is on record stating he would support a roll back of the millage rate to make up for the increased values.
This is ridiculous. Tax assessors be ashamed. Suicide is up...wages are way down...food is up...gas is up...water is up...electricity is up...how can you do this to us? Is it because assessor begins with ass?
Government hungers people...we must feed it. Hardwick needs to make sure the digest is rolled back and the school board needs to reign in their spending too. At the very least we need to tread water for a little while until the economy stabilizes. We need to have our belts so tight right now that our toes turn blue.
From what I hear there's one woman in the tax office who's trying to raise us to Peachtree City's tax level so that she can single-handedly run off the riff-raff from Barnesville. Anybody know anything about this?
My house taxes went up 40% from last year. This, ironically, after I've had roof shingles blown off from storm damage a few months ago. We ought to all paint out houses hot pink in protest. Oh, yeah. Can't afford paint now. Dang.
I don't know about hot pink houses, but I could quit cutting my grass in protest.
I've been screwed year after year. They lie and say they hit one area and then another, but they screw me virtually every year.
Protesting is a joke. One year I went in to appeal and they raised it even more. None of the idiots on the board knew the first thing about real property values.
Look at what happened this year. Property values are DOWN now, not up. Everyone knows they are down. They reappraised me last year and raised mine, they did it again this year.
I need to get on the commission or some other thing so I can steal money **and** have cheap taxes.
Good luck protesting. When I tried it the people, none of which had any idea about property values, raised mine even more.
Gene Hardwick gets his retroactive tax cuts for conservation. That's why he doesn't need to worry about the rest of us.
WG is his buddy so I expect WG will probably delete this.
My commercial building went up 300%from last year. Tell me if that is right.
Get use to it people, especially if a Democrat is elected everyones taxes will go up to support all the Govt. propgrams. Let the Govt either in a small town or the Federal,waste all our money to give free programs to support the lazy ones in for the ride. Keep giving and they will keep taking
Im young dumb, but isn't the value based on fair market value. With the current housing market conditions, especially in barnesville, on what basis can an appraiser raise the value of someone's home? If you could only sell your home for 100k in the current market, that is fair market value.
Also, do any of you ever wonder what you are getting out of the money spent on the local school board? If you were buying something in the free market, would you pay more for something that is giving you less and less return each year? I think the school board should show us some improvement in the quality education our kids are getting. If their budget went up, shouldn't there be a direct increase in the test scores and number of kids going to and succeeding in college? I bet there won't be. All this money will be eaten up by beauracrats.
My house went down about 20%- maybe they were correcting an overvalued assessment from years before??? Sure don't want to think that my house's value plunged that much in one year.....
The value of any property is determined by the owners ability to resale to a persective customer. With the housing market in the toilet and being the worse since decades with increase of over 30 percent is totally unreasonable.
Anonymous 9:12, The Democrates will have to do a hell of a lot of spending to match the 3-5 TRILLION dollars spent by the GOP for this war we were duked into.
I love this Republicans are great and Democrates are bad crap.
The truth is anyone who gets in office starts pandering. When the pandering starts the people get stiffed.
Just look at how the local Government works.
Most of it is bad management, not spending on welfare. Like that mismanaged war Bush started, or on a local scene mismanaged things like the Ag Authority. A group of FINE citizens in the clique gave big money to the city against the law and the chickens in the county just let it happen.
Another thing will be this Chinese factory. We will give tax cuts and loans and pay for training just to move a few jobs here from other areas of our own country. Most of the value will be exported to China, and result in a net loss of AMERICAN manufacturing jobs.
This has been going on for 30 years and is finally catching up with us. We have a bunch of idiots running authorities and the goverment. They somehow think we can cut our veins open and bleed money into the rest of the world and become healthier in the process.
This is the entire Government, NOT just the Democrats. We can't even fix the stupid stuff in Lamar County, so we have little hope of fixing Georgia or the USA.
We keep re-electing the same crowd and we don't tell the people who are screwing us to stop the bad behavior. How many people have said anything to Mayo????
The "assessed" value of a home rarely, if ever, is directly related to the true value of the home. It just a value the tax people use for the collection of revenue. To determine the value of your home, you need it appraised, not assessed.
Not just in Lamar, but most of the USA.
This is happening everywhere. There was a story in the Atlanta paper the other day and on Channel 2 last night about houses assessed at $100 or $200k that are selling for 70 or 80 thousand. People are not buying because they do not want the tax liability or cannot get a loan. Raisng assessments when values are falling like a stone is typical of the big government mentality which holds that all money is theirs except what they decide you can keep.
Well said anon 11:28....
You technically don't pay taxes to your county or local government for your house, but for the property that it sits on. Although your houses assessed value is taken into consideration it has no baring on what your house is actually worth. We would all be screwed then!
Your tax bills are different than mine are.
My tax bills charge me for the land and for the buildings on the land. Add a pool, the tax goes up. Add a shed that is not portable, and the tax goes up. Blink your eyes and the tax goes up.
Then there are the tractors and cars and boats and everything else that are taxed. You pay sales tax when you buy it, you pay a value tax every year you own it.
I once stood in line behind some fool that had an old Chevy Impala and she said "my car is going up in value now because the taxes went up". Bullcrap. The taxes went up because people passed a school tax. She was too dumb to know when the Government or local paper says "this will increase the tax on a $100,000 house $10" they are not telling you your boat, car, and everything else goes up.
I'm sure most people realize an assessment is NOT an appraisal, but the assesment is supposed to be based on the true value of the property.
What a group of people need to do is ban together and sue the county and force them to value land and homes at the true vale, not what the new tax-Nazi spews. The days of $10000 an acre land in large tracts in most of Lamar are GONE. The silly spending spree is gone.
It's time to force them to use some common sense instead of acting like a Tax-Nazi.
government works for the people - not the other way around. Unite together and let them know that we all won't stand for it and to make immediare changes or get out of the job.
Another thing is to check what the elected ones and others pay. I'll bet a year's pay that it ain't nowhere close to what they expect everyone else to pay.
It's time to fight and tell'm all where to go.
they can't raise prices on a declining market. If anything they will have to reduce evaluations by 10% of last year.
want to bet?
I am a business owner in downtown and my building not only doubled, but tripled. I cannot speak for anyone else, but I know the recession has had a negative impact on my business. How can the county justify increasing taxes when revenue is decreasing? Do they really expect me to be able to sell my building now and get 3 times what is was worth before the real estate market became stagnant?
When home values go up, the county is always quick to say that rising taxes are reflective of that value. Funny how declining values are not reflected now. Vampires maybe?
WHY WAS UT THE LESS TEACHERS GOT PAID THE MORE WE LEARNED THEE SCHOOL SYSTEM GETS THE MOST FROM THE NEW ASSESSMENT I SMELL A RAT BUT SEEING THEY PAY BY THE POUND IN LAMAR WE MIGHT SAVE SOME MONEY JUST LOOK AT WHOS RETIREING I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW MUCH OF MY TAX INCREASE IS GOING TO SUPPORT THEIR FAT ASS HABITS
You all know of course the same good old boys in the commission that let Barnesville steal over a million dollars in county ag assets and that never went after money Stevens took hired the new appraisal witch to fly around on her broomstick and extract more money from us.
These are the same people who don't collect the proper conservation penalties that are now socking it to us commoners.
They are the same people who give tax breaks to businesses from out of town or even overseas while they stick it to our mom and pop owned shops in town.
Maybe now you all will start to pay attention to what the cave people and cowards have been telling you all along.
You can bet the good old boys are still protected and the Lamar County Commissioners will still give the big boys that can afford it a tax exemption while they let Barnesville steal millions and give our resources to the school system for a place to play games.
If they worried about the quality of education instead of where they are playing ball the value of property would go up.
If we keep doing the same old stuff things will keep going the same old way.
THIS GOOD OLD BOY JUST OPENED THE MAIL AND WAS IN STICKER SHOCK WHAT THE AUNT B HAS HAPPENED TO THIS PLACE REMBER THE 60S AND 70S PROTEST BOMB AND VOTE THEN PROTEST SOMEMORE
I live in the city and my value went down about 6% from last year.
I guess i live in the slum area of town.
yall will complain alot but then you will go to the polls and vote for the same bunch of county politicians that brought this problem on us..........same with national politics, you complain about the shape of the country and economy but yall will all vote for mccain and nothing will change
ours went up
the stephens didn't take no money in fact the county still owes them money the count better be glad that they didn't get them a lawyer and sue them. the county paid lots more to other county or ex-county employees that shouldn't have been paid but some employee in the commissioner's office pay who she wants to pay!!!!!!!!!
the stephens didnt take no money.
That means they did NOT take NO money, which means they must have taken SOME money.
Thanks for confirming that.
...and what count? Count Dracula? Count Chockula?
Let's spend county money on soccer. That sounds like a good idea.
i got my assessment joke in the mail,,it was a real scream.. linda mayo your so funny
The amount of tax you pay is determined by the county Commissioners and the School Board not by the assessors.
The Assessors are required to fairly value property (they do not cost you taxes, the Commissioners charge you taxes).
Do not get caught up in the smoke screen that the Assessors are increasing your taxes, that can only be done by the County commissioners.
They are required by law to reduce the tax rate by the %increase of the digest or to hold 2meeting and raise taxes! This would mean no increase in taxes.
THEY DID NOT DO THAT LAST YEAR(only 5 people complained last year and they raise taxes over 15% on the people that were reassessed) AND WITHOUT COMMUNITY PROTEST, THE COMMISSIONERS AND THE SCHOOL BOARD WILL INCREASE YOUR TAXES AGAIN THIS YEAR AND EVERYONE WILL BLAME THE ASSESSORS.
WHEN and WHERE do we ALL meet to combat this? Date time and address. I cannot sell my home for the fair market value posted. My home, in fact, went down in value.
They shaft me year after year wuith increases. Glad to see the rest of you are getting your turn.
If the school board wants to save a ton of money just start parking some of the buses and make one pass through an area picking up kids from all class levels. Bus them to a central location and then transfer them to buses designated for the proper school.
This is what we did when we were in school and it saved a bunch of money in gas, equipment and drivers.
Government needs to start thinking.
If you have and issue with taxes, talk to the County Commissioners and the School Board.
If you believe that the value of your propery is higher than it should be(i.e. more than you would sell itfor), talk to the assessors.
I believe the assessors are trying to be fair, it you have a question, go talk to them.
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