Thursday, April 18, 2019
Assessment Resources
At Tuesday night's Common Council meeting, Kristal Heinz mentioned a resource that could be of use to homeowners seeking to identify alternative comparable properties to those used by GAR Associates to determine the value of their property. It can be accessed through the City of Hudson website: cityofhudson.sdgnys.com. Click on the tab "Click Here for Public Access" at the upper left. Enter your name or address to locate your property. On the "Tax Map ID/Property Data" page, there is a column of tabs at the left. Click on the last tab, "Comparables." You can then search using a number of different variables to identify properties you believe to be the best comps for your house.
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To the best of my knowledge and per both the verbal advisories of the Columbia County Office of Real Property Services and GAR itself in the informal interviews and on the phone, the databases to search for recent sales comparables that are acceptable to GAR are solely those included in the pdf files they provided on the right hand nav bar of their uploads of March 1, 2019. Further, if one is going to explore the database referred to by Ms. Heinz, one must be extremely careful to reset its time parameters to the past two years cited by GAR in its pdf documents, which is not easy to do.
ReplyDeleteAs fascinating as it is to see who has inground pools and who doesn't and where the 77 Galvan properties are, this database is only as good as its handlers, with so many variables that just about any property can be a comparable--and just about any can be excluded. How many "detached rowhouses" can you find to compare yourself with? The most fascinating insight into the mind of GAR is its "neighborhood" designations, including "city outside" and "outside comm." Those are wonderful rabbit holes to fool around in while you're wondering does a town of 7,000 and fewer than 2 square miles need seven different housing zones. Or, for that matter, who has decreed that because someone has a million bucks to spend on a house that the poor guy next door who has done nothing but keep his modest bungalow clean and neat for 40 years suddenly has to sell it because his property taxes will jump 50%.... Curiouser and curiouser.
ReplyDeleteExactly Peter !
Delete""Or, for that matter, who has decreed that because someone has a million bucks to spend on a house that the poor guy next door who has done nothing but keep his modest bungalow clean and neat for 40 years suddenly has to sell it because his property taxes will jump 50%.... Curiouser and curiouser."
Suddenly we are all millionaires by osmosis ?
This reval by GAR is economic suicide for Hudson.
There's absolutely nothing "fair and balanced" as the mayor portends.
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