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Originally Posted by Envitro
quick question for you guys: We just moved into our newly constructed home (Cardel Construction) and we got our 2009 property tax bill for 2009. Now, we were told that we would only have to pay from our posession date onwards by the lawyer dealing with our transaction.
However, it looks like we got the full tax bill in the amount "owing". Here's the kicker. The city's assessment was based on December 2008 values while the house was partially constructed, so it's about half or slightly over half of what I would imagine the home value to be now.
WTH do I do? Call the city and find out what's what? Or do I deal with Cardel for them to pay their portion up until April 17th?
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Leaving the Cardel issue aside for a second... the lower your assessed value, the lower your taxes. So, don't you want to keep the "too low" assessed value for as long as possible? Let the City figure it out when they do their 2009 assessment. Unless I'm misunderstanding the "kicker" part of your post.