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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just received our tax assessments. Our house in Burtonsville, MD had an over $200K increase. The new market value for our house is almost $900K!!! The county assessor is definitely smoking crack if they think my house, or just about any house in this area will sell for this much. Low ranked schools, several pockets of high-poverty. Even more areas of lower income residents and a few of us in the real middle class. Ridiculous increase in crime, and no where to work without heading at least 30 minutes away. This is not a desirable area of the county yet we have to pay taxes like it is!
Of course it is the county trying to make up for their wasteful spending and their inability to build and maintain a higher paying tax base. 
I am glad that our last kid is graduating next year and we are moving away and I literally can't wait, but I have several elderly neighbors who are living in very old, tiny homes who have also seen their assessments go way up.
I want to complain and I want to help my neighbors complain. Outside of going thru the trouble of filing an appeal that I know I won't win, how do i draw more attention to the fact that the value of my house will not go up over 200K in 3 years. In fact, I won't be able to sell it for much more than what I paid for it 10 years ago!
Anyone else see theirs go up so much?
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You should appeal. Sales have been so low that there’s a good chance that the comps they used are off. You should also pay attention to the land value. My lot is nearly identical to my neighbors on either side of me yet my land is assed for 50 percent more per square foot than theirs is. [/quote]

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