McLennan County Appraisal district

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Spotted Ag
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8:51a, 4/8/22
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These *******s deserve to be put under the jail. Bunch of damn thieves is all they are. How ANY person with any self respect could choose to do work for an appraisal district is beyond me. They are the lowest of the low. Slime in the ice machine. Streaks in the toilet bowl. Dirtier than a homeless dude's underwear. Seriously, they can screw the hell right off.
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Ellis Wyatt
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In reply to Spotted Ag • 8:52a, 4/8/22
I saw that they announced last week to expect appraised values to rise 30% this year. I'm guessing you have received a notice.
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8:53a, 4/8/22
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Thanks for the informative post.
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In reply to Spotted Ag • 8:53a, 4/8/22
Spotted Ag said:
These *******s deserve to be put under the jail. Bunch of damn thieves is all they are. How ANY person with any self respect could choose to do work for an appraisal district is beyond me. They are the lowest of the low. Slime in the ice machine. Streaks in the toilet bowl. Dirtier than a homeless dude's underwear. Seriously, they can screw the hell right off.

I guess you haven't been paying attention to what real estate markets have been doing across the entire state.
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8:54a, 4/8/22
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Chip and Joanna really raising the house prices out there!
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8:54a, 4/8/22
HCAD bumped one of my rentals up almost 70%
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In reply to TX04Aggie • 8:55a, 4/8/22
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Chip and Joanna really raising the house prices out there!

Who knew shiplap could do this?
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Tom Doniphon
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8:56a, 4/8/22
You thought values were going down this year?
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9:00a, 4/8/22
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Property valuation should be frozen at the its value when it was purchased. Let the elected politicians change the rate as needed, instead of an unelected person (or person) decide what they think it is worth. what we have now is the equivalent of taxing unrealized gains.
***It's your money, not theIRS! (At least for a little while longer.)
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9:01a, 4/8/22
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Could you sell it for the ludicrous appraisal number right now? If yes, then they're not wrong. If no, you have to protest. I hire a professional company to protest every year I have a significant valuation increase automatically and we split the savings as the free. Worth it because they have the experience to achieve a high success rate and saving something I'd better than saving nothing.
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In reply to taxpreparer • 9:05a, 4/8/22
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Property valuation should be frozen at the its value when it was purchased. Let the elected politicians change the rate as needed, instead of an unelected person (or person) decide what they think it is worth. what we have now is the equivalent of taxing unrealized gains.

California has done this, and look what happened to them.
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9:07a, 4/8/22
My personal opinion.... the tax rates and total tax burden are far more the problem than appraised values that tend to be below market value. Folks like to gripe about the CADs (myself included) because they are the only place that can change anything or offer any relief.
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In reply to taxpreparer • 9:10a, 4/8/22
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taxpreparer said:
Property valuation should be frozen at the its value when it was purchased. Let the elected politicians change the rate as needed, instead of an unelected person (or person) decide what they think it is worth. what we have now is the equivalent of taxing unrealized gains.


This I basically agree with, but property taxes are different than income/gains taxes. They're specifically taxing it on present value, and not taxing it as a gain (or crediting a loss). Yes, it makes holding property painful and discourages investment in property versus other investment options. It also is fairly regressive as the wealthy can afford to hire expert legal and financial representation to game the system and exploit loophole at a much lower cost in proportion to their potential savings.
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In reply to TX04Aggie • 9:11a, 4/8/22
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TX04Aggie said:
Chip and Joanna really raising the house prices out there!
Those two can F right off as well.
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9:16a, 4/8/22
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Hello friends. When the legislature failed for 20 plus years to fix this problem then this debacle will continue. It is a poor system and is equivalent to an income tax. Nicer homes are owned by people who have higher income. They always move to more expensive homes tracking with their standard of living. Thus an income tax.

Now the taxing authorities like the cities and school district can claim that they did not raise the tax rate, however the budget per household increased. Total taxes paid go up. Get it????

The Texas legislature is the problem but they do not want to risk their cush retirement package.
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In reply to taxpreparer • 9:20a, 4/8/22
taxpreparer said:
Property valuation should be frozen at the its value when it was purchased. Let the elected politicians change the rate as needed, instead of an unelected person (or person) decide what they think it is worth. what we have now is the equivalent of taxing unrealized gains.
Or switch to sales tax
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In reply to HTownAg98 • 9:21a, 4/8/22
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HTownAg98 said:
taxpreparer said:
Property valuation should be frozen at the its value when it was purchased. Let the elected politicians change the rate as needed, instead of an unelected person (or person) decide what they think it is worth. what we have now is the equivalent of taxing unrealized gains.

California has done this, and look what happened to them.


What specifically are you referring to? How did this policy cause whatever that is?

I'm genuinely curious because this sounds like a good idea. They have a lot of problems and because of that I never want to go there for a split second, and sure don't want to bring more problems here.
FJB
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In reply to MouthBQ98 • 9:22a, 4/8/22
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MouthBQ98 said:
Could you sell it for the ludicrous appraisal number right now? If yes, then they're not wrong. If no, you have to protest. I hire a professional company to protest every year I have a significant valuation increase automatically and we split the savings as the free. Worth it because they have the experience to achieve a high success rate and saving something I'd better than saving nothing.


I use O'Connor and associates here in Houston, was a success last year and recommend.
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Tom Doniphon
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In reply to samurai_science • 9:23a, 4/8/22
baron_von_awesome said:
taxpreparer said:
Property valuation should be frozen at the its value when it was purchased. Let the elected politicians change the rate as needed, instead of an unelected person (or person) decide what they think it is worth. what we have now is the equivalent of taxing unrealized gains.
Or switch to sales tax

Doesn't tend to work in rural Texas.... unless you intend to subsidize them with urban sales taxes.
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9:23a, 4/8/22
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My friend in Williamson County's evaluation went up by 57 percent
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In reply to Charpie • 9:28a, 4/8/22
Charpie said:
My friend in Williamson County's evaluation went up by 57 percent


That should be illegal!
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9:28a, 4/8/22
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Welcome to Texas.

I do wonder if this run up is going to lead to some reflection in Austin on how we tax here. 2022 increases are about to be shocking for many.

There are pros and cons for various methodologies but at some point emotion is going to win the day here.
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9:33a, 4/8/22
Now you know why us old sheets vote against bond issues.
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In reply to Ellis Wyatt • 9:33a, 4/8/22
Ellis Wyatt said:
I saw that they announced last week to expect appraised values to rise 30% this year. I'm guessing you have received a notice.
in Bell County they've gone really insane in most of Belton and West Temple. some people with 100-200% increases. i think they had people from Travis and Williamson county come do them.

somehow they have my property value at 30% of what our real estate appraisal actually is so i'm just minding my business and keeping a low profile over in east Bell county..
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In reply to Owlagdad • 9:39a, 4/8/22
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Owlagdad said:
Now you know why us old sheets vote against bond issues.


I vote against every bond issue to no avail. They always pass here in Dallas county.

Democrats.
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In reply to Tom Doniphon • 9:43a, 4/8/22
Tom Doniphon said:
baron_von_awesome said:
taxpreparer said:
Property valuation should be frozen at the its value when it was purchased. Let the elected politicians change the rate as needed, instead of an unelected person (or person) decide what they think it is worth. what we have now is the equivalent of taxing unrealized gains.
Or switch to sales tax

Doesn't tend to work in rural Texas.... unless you intend to subsidize them with urban sales taxes.
Fine with me, urban democrats can pay.
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Ellis Wyatt
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In reply to c-jags • 9:43a, 4/8/22
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Ellis Wyatt said:
I saw that they announced last week to expect appraised values to rise 30% this year. I'm guessing you have received a notice.
in Bell County they've gone really insane in most of Belton and West Temple. some people with 100-200% increases. i think they had people from Travis and Williamson county come do them.

somehow they have my property value at 30% of what our real estate appraisal actually is so i'm just minding my business and keeping a low profile over in east Bell county..
Oh, yeah. One of my buddies in rural Salado also got hammered. I live a little west of y'all. The whole area has seen huge increases.

I wouldn't have even typed that last part out...
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9:48a, 4/8/22
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I always assumed that if I found myself homeless I'd just free ball it.
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9:49a, 4/8/22
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In McLennan Co, the house next to mine sold for twice my appraised vaiue a few months ago. The house 2 doors down sold for 2.5 times my appraised value a few weeks ago.

I'm just grateful for the cap on rate increases with the homestead exemption.
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In reply to TRX • 9:51a, 4/8/22
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TRX said:
HTownAg98 said:
taxpreparer said:
Property valuation should be frozen at the its value when it was purchased. Let the elected politicians change the rate as needed, instead of an unelected person (or person) decide what they think it is worth. what we have now is the equivalent of taxing unrealized gains.

California has done this, and look what happened to them.


What specifically are you referring to? How did this policy cause whatever that is?

I'm genuinely curious because this sounds like a good idea. They have a lot of problems and because of that I never want to go there for a split second, and sure don't want to bring more problems here.


I worked for San Diego Assessors office for 13 years. I can go into great detail on how Prop 13 was a good idea with some bad clauses that turned out very bad for the state overall. However I won't do it via phone.

I'll get back this later, and I've posted about this before. Some TLDNR material. There are also a ton of studies on this as well.

Here's Slate bashing Prop 13.
https://slate.com/business/2016/09/californias-proposition-13-is-bad-policy-and-here-are-some-graphs-to-show-you-why.html

In short, it changed the way taxes are collected and from whom. It has had a lot of negative long term consequences. And this is without addressing CAs spending problems.
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In reply to Charpie • 9:52a, 4/8/22
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I thought there was a max of 30% or something they could be raised in a single year. He needs to protest.
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In reply to taxpreparer • 9:52a, 4/8/22
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taxpreparer said:
Property valuation should be frozen at the its value when it was purchased. Let the elected politicians change the rate as needed, instead of an unelected person (or person) decide what they think it is worth. what we have now is the equivalent of taxing unrealized gains.
Yeah, but it isn't an income tax. It is a valuation tax.
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9:53a, 4/8/22
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Imagine being on a fixed income with no kids.
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In reply to BQ78 • 9:53a, 4/8/22
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BQ78 said:
I thought there was a max of 30% or something they could be raised in a single year. He needs to protest.
Homesteads yes, but I don't think rental properties get this. Hopefully, they are allowed to collect rent again or boot a tenant out.
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In reply to EMY92 • 9:56a, 4/8/22
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EMY92 said:
In McLennan Co, the house next to mine sold for twice my appraised vaiue a few months ago. The house 2 doors down sold for 2.5 times my appraised value a few weeks ago.

I'm just grateful for the cap on rate increases with the homestead exemption.
Ridiculous. Thing that pisses me off the most is they try to compare my house to houses on the other side of the county in urban areas. Houses 20 miles away from mine that are on city water and sewer, have paved roads, and are in large neighborhoods are "comparables". My home and property is none of those things.
Covidians, Communists, CNN, FOX, and all other MSM are enemies of the state and should be treated as such.
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