2024 Assessments. Howd you score? MEGA thread. *** Official ***

[flipstah]

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Has everyone got theirs in the mail already? Haven't actually got the paper copy yet.

You can do electronic notifications nowadays. I just changed mine to electronic after realizing I have a tenant now and forgot to do this.

[pheoxs]

Well I paid the $50 to file an appeal. We'll see how it goes. Requested a 60k reduction.

[gmc72]

Got mine reduced by $10,500. Spent 30 minutes on the phone with the assessor and that's the most she could do. She said that we could file and spend the $50, but that there was no guarantee and that it would likely go back up next year.

Paid $640k for the house in May and they said it was worth $722,500 in July. Got them down to $712k.

Not sure if we'll go any further.

[Team_Mclaren]

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Got mine reduced by $10,500. Spent 30 minutes on the phone with the assessor and that's the most she could do. She said that we could file and spend the $50, but that there was no guarantee and that it would likely go back up next year.

Paid $640k for the house in May and they said it was worth $722,500 in July. Got them down to $712k.

Not sure if we'll go any further.

so you saved like 60 bucks?

[msommers]

A win is a win against the City.

[killramos]

Yea you really showed them

[ExtraSlow]

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[killramos]

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Clearly haha

Considering how much the bureaucracy probably spent to push this paper around there should be a minimum 100k threshold to dispute.

[firebane]

I realize its not Calgary... but man we had a 14% increase in our assessment this year and nothing different. Went from 345,140 to 396,000

Fuckin Strathmore and its stupid growth lol.

[ThePenIsMightier]

Give me $60 for no reason. No fucking reason at all, right now. Give me $60.

No takers?
Then how about some quiet time.

[davidI]

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Paid $640k for the house in May and they said it was worth $722,500 in July. Got them down to $712k.

Makes you wonder how the F they're benchmarking...

[Team_Mclaren]

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Give me $60 for no reason. No fucking reason at all, right now. Give me $60.

No takers?
Then how about some quiet time.

hmm, he called and cry about it for like an hour. no thanks. It's also not guaranteed.

[gmc72]

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Makes you wonder how the F they're benchmarking...

They use 3 years of comparable sales in the area to average out the value. They do NOT take into consideration the state of the property. Ours needed some work, so we got it cheaper than others, but the city said that doesn't matter. They also use a different measurement tool for square footage than MLS does, so they had our place as bigger than it actually is.

hmm, he called and cry about it for like an hour. no thanks. It's also not guaranteed.

No crying. Just trying to figure out how the value went from what I paid 6 weeks before the assessment to an extra $80k.

Probably not going to go ay further.

[pheoxs]

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They use 3 years of comparable sales in the area to average out the value. They do NOT take into consideration the state of the property. Ours needed some work, so we got it cheaper than others, but the city said that doesn't matter. They also use a different measurement tool for square footage than MLS does, so they had our place as bigger than it actually is.



No crying. Just trying to figure out how the value went from what I paid 6 weeks before the assessment to an extra $80k.

Probably not going to go ay further.

That's not entirely true. If you log into your myID and look at property details you will find they do have a metric for the quality of the home as well as the renovation level though when/how they update that is a guess.

[Tik-Tok]

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That's not entirely true. If you log into your myID and look at property details you will find they do have a metric for the quality of the home as well as the renovation level though when/how they update that is a guess.

Mine doesn't have that line. It's also wildly off on Living Area Below Grade, and Garage Area, but I'm sure as hell not going to correct them.

[msommers]

Our sq.ft is spot-on to what the real estate listing was, which now needs to be measured with actual accuracy than realtor math.

[pheoxs]

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Mine doesn't have that line. It's also wildly off on Living Area Below Grade, and Garage Area, but I'm sure as hell not going to correct them.

Oh really? Wonder why

Below grade living space typicaly doesn't include the stairwell or the utility room IIRC. So maybe that's why?

[03ozwhip]

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I realize its not Calgary... but man we had a 14% increase in our assessment this year and nothing different. Went from 345,140 to 396,000

Fuckin Strathmore and its stupid growth lol.

Mine went up about 150k man. Stupid garage lol

[pheoxs]

Property taxes going up even higher apparently. The province raised their portion much higher.

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local...first-expected

Jacyk said the municipal portion of the local tax rate actually dropped from 7.8 per cent to 7.2 per cent, due to higher-than-anticipated growth in assessed values.But he noted the provincial portion went up by 11.5 per cent, resulting in an overall increase of 8.6 per cent for residential property owners.
That means owners of an average Calgary home can expect a $26 monthly tax bump, while condo owners can anticipate paying an average of $20 more in tax each month, according to the city’s report.

[Disoblige]

Barf.