I'm just so tired.....

[Gina]

Originally Posted by HALEY

they just reasset my house i am so mad, the old assement was 48,700 and the new one is 84,700, now how the heck could it go that high? like i said before here comes the taxes, i wanted to fight it, but with all the rules it wasn't worth the time or the money i guess...

Haley, Marilyn we are fighting our new assessements tomorrow. I will let you know how we make out. These taxes in NJ are getting out of hand. People are leaving this state and its a shame. Its really a beautiful place to live and raise kids.


Back to Marilyn, its ok to vent we all need a place to come and get away from our daily lives. I hope by you selling your home you will be able to enjoy and not work so hard. I was lucky to stay home with my kids when they were young, yes I did sacrifice a lot , vacations, dinners out etc. but it was worth staying home and being a PTA mom.. dance committee etc.. I don't regret it. I am back to work now you need two salaries to survive.

[HALEY]

Gina let me know how it went, do you have an attorney? or did you need to get your house reapraised?

[Marilyn]

When we fought our appraisal, unsuccessfully as previously stated, we did lots of research on the appraisal website checking out the appraisals of comparable homes. We also worked with a realtor we know who pulled all the multiple listed homes in our area that sold within the last 6 months. We talked with an appraiser who stated that values have dropped 25 or so percent in the past few months in our area. We walked in with spreadsheets all prepared & the first thing our appraisor did before we went before the board was to pull us into his office to try to settle before we went to the board. He had us lay our cards on the table then asked us to leave and wait in the lobby and we could go before the board in about 15 minutes. He had us show our hand and then he spent 15 minutes preparing his defense with the county computer system there all loaded with all the information he needed to build a case to match our appraisal using other homes that were appraised too high, and showing that ours was right in the middle. The he pulled out his hidden ace. Our home is classified as brick, and it's stone, so they said they could raise our appraisal $30,000 if they wanted to. They won't this year, but said that next year it will go up that much plus more to compensate for appreciation and the stone. That's why we are selling. This is crazy. We finally have our dream home paid for, and we are selling it because the taxes are just more than we want to pay. We can buy an older home of about the same size, do some remodeling and take a very nice vacation each year with the tax savings.

Gina, since you are a realtor, you probably know all the ins and outs. Wish you the best tomorrow!!!!!

[HALEY]

i know it is crazy mariyln, but like i said before here comes the taxes, someone needs to repay the debt that we are in, plus on top of this i have sewage coming thru my area within the next year, this is why i want to move also, i can get a bigger house with less taxes out in the country by my sisters house, so here i am still looking i found a really nice one i want mike to look at this weekend.. but who knows now they might be raising taxes there also... just can't win,,, but my house needs to much work done to it.. i need to get out..