One of the big factors in property tax appeals is that the best available data from the local market should be applied on your behalf. This is an elementary valuation concept, but often times the reason why your property taxes are too high is because the mass-appraisal process instituted by the Assessor’s Office fails to incorporate the most [...]

There are a number of reasons why local home owners do not appeal their property taxes more often: 1) Many property owners are unfamiliar with what to do and how to do it, so appealing property taxes and handling something new can feel intimidating; 2) Life gets busy and this whole process seems like a [...]

Like many other local communities that were built over the past five years, much of Anatolia in Rancho Cordova was built during the peek of the housing market and has since seen values decline rapidly just as they have through much of the Sacramento Region. Frankly, the Assessor has not kept up on the decline [...]

Since we are taxed at a rate of up to 1.25% on the total assessed value of our properties, this basically means that for every $10,000 of assessed value you are paying $100 more or less. 

Imagine the following:

Assessed Value $25,000 too high = you [...]

There are four basic reasons:

1) Decline in Value (If you believe the market value for your property has declined and is no longer as high as the assessed value).

2) Change in Ownership (If you believe the market value of [...]