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Westover Baptist Church Craft Show and Bake Sale. October 11, 2008 9am-2pm Pancake Breakfast 8:30-9:30 am Brunswick Stew and hotdogs for lunch.
Fall Festival
Saturday, October18th 10 a.m.-2:00 p.m. at Good Shepherd Episcopal School,
4207 Forest Hill Ave.
Admission is free and tickets for the activities can be purchased at the event along with lunch by Seven Hills Market and Cielito Lindo.
Pick up a schedule of events at the Westover Hills Library including Movie Nights, Story Times and Computer Help for Seniors. The Westover Hills Library Advisory Group meets the first Saturday of the month at 9:00 a.m. at the library!
Please consider purchasing a $15.00 wreath at the Westover Hills Library for Wreaths Across America to be placed on a veteran's grave on 12/13/08. For every 20 wreaths sold, the library will receive $100.00 to benefit our local branch.
Can we dispute these? My house is identical to the one next to it, except I have a garage, and my assessment is increasing exponentially while my neighbor’s increase is more palatable.
They can be disputed (Appeal process), but the degree of success varies. We were told two years ago that we could appeal and would likely win, but they’d just make up for it the next year. So we didn’t dispute it and still got major increases last year. If Caitlin reads this, I’m sure she can tell you everything you never wanted to know about the appeals process.
I went through the appeals process 2 years ago and they did reduce my assessment very slightly. For mine they actually came inside the house which I think hurt since they were saying things like “Oh, that’s really nice” etc.
For 2008 my assessment hasn’t changed at all - it looks like none of my immediate neighbors had an increase either. Of course, with the current real estate slump, you could argue that all of the assessments are unrealistic right now.
Oh man, if anybody wants my help with an appeal, I’ll be happy to offer it. Be prepared to fight the city for 10 months, and to have a disappointing outcome, though. Mine went up another $12,000 this year—-half of what it went up last year, but still WAY too much for this crappy housing market.
I think the real estate assessor is still living in a fantasy land where the mortgage crisis didn’t happen and property values nationwide aren’t crashing. I think he seriously needs to re-evaluate his career choice, as he’s obviously not well-suited to this one.
Also, I think we should band together as a neighborhood and really put pressure on city council and the mayor’s office to re-evaluate the ridiculous over-assessments in our neighborhood. Personally, I won’t stay in the city if the taxes are going to keep going up exponentially. I’m not that loyal to urban development.