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Tax Payer Groups Find Most Homes Overassessed!
Topic Summary:  If your home's value has dropped you may want to investigate a property appeal. But doing so mandates you have proof and the numbers to back up your claims. The most important piece of information you will need is a solid home valuation. Yes, there are websites that can give you an approximation on value but your Real Estate Professional can help the best. He or she has all the tools to help you out and knows the ins and outs of the issues you will face.  Also, in most areas you can make an appeal during the tax year.Double Edge Sword! When attempting to get a market value that is legitimate, pay attention to see if recent sales around you included Short Sales, or other distressed sales. Including these in calculations may provide evidence that your home, compared with others lost value based on sales price. On the other side of the coin, if you were going for a refi, you would want these "distressed" sales taken out of the calculations, thus increasing the market value of your home.The National Taxpayers Union, a Washington, D.C., advocacy group whose goal is to lower taxes, estimates that as much as ... more

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