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The Santa Clara assessor takes contest filings, chuckles, and throws them away. I'd be surprised if it were different in Monterey.
by zbrozek 4y ago
The Santa Clara assessor takes contest filings, chuckles, and throws them away. I'd be surprised if it were different in Monterey.
- toast0 4y agoThat's probably the appropriate action for contest filings in Santa Clara county. Either it's a new purchase, the assessment is more or less the purchase price and someone read bad advice on the internet to always contest assessments, or the assessment has been prop 13 limited and contesting it is clearly a joke. In 2010, the Santa Clara Assessor actually lowered my assessment, which I thought was funny, but I bought in 2009, and I guess the market hadn't hit bottom quite yet. That said, if the property use is significantly impaired and the assessor wasn't aware, there's a case to be made. Although, lack of access to fresh water has been an issue in the Monterey Penisula since at least the 1970s, so I'd guess the assessor is aware, and the market should be too.
- zbrozek 4y agoI filed a contest asking for a change of ratio between land and structure value (the assessor set it to approximately 100% land, which is comically wrong) and simply never got a response. I wasn't even trying to change the total.