Got mine in the mail 2 days ago

Got mine yesterday.

trouble said:

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Got mine in the mail 2 days ago

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This

Pretty sure I changed my mailing address with them last year to our P.O. Box since delivery at home is erratic.

Yet it showed up at our house.

I fought (and won) before the arbitration board a couple of years ago which held my value for that year and the next year. Now this year they've bumped me a remarkable 36% which comes out to over $350/foot. Looking forward to spending hours fighting again. God bless America.

I'll be lucky if we ever get it. We are frequently missing mail, and she only seems to show up once or twice a week.

If you are seeing N/A online you can replace "Smith" with your name in https://esearch.brazoscad.org/Search/SearchResults?keywords=Smith%20Year:2024&page=1&pageSize=25&filter=null&sort=null and then look for "appraisedValue" on the resulting page under your property listing. YMMV, not sure why some are set to display "N/A"

Edit- nm. Found it

welp.....

only a 7% increase this year.

43% increase in 2 years, and 106% increase since 2019 when we purchased the property.

Our house is a modular home on a pier and beam foundation. for some reason, our tax docs now say its a mobile home on a mobile pad with mobile hookup, and yet they have increased its value by leaps and bounds....

Does anyone have a list of the "codes?" I built a metal building on my property last year and they coded it as MBA and the open porch part of the building as MBL. My neighbor behind me has a similar metal building and it is coded MBG.

I'm listed as N/A right now too, but used the link above to find that, as I expected, the value is miles overboard.

someone's got to pay for those medians...

My entire street went up 30% on improvements. $60-80k increase across the board. Had a buddy's go up the same amount in Southwood Valley as well. Seems that they may have targeted the entire area for an increase.

histag10 said:

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Are yall seeing valuations online or in the mailer? I haven't gotten it in the mail yet, and online it has "N/A" on 2024

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Mail

classicdoug said:

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Does anyone have a list of the "codes?" I built a metal building on my property last year and they coded it as MBA and the open porch part of the building as MBL. My neighbor behind me has a similar metal building and it is coded MBG.

I'm listed as N/A right now too, but used the link above to find that, as I expected, the value is miles overboard.

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This might help.

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dubi said:

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ukbb2003 said:

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Brazos CAD has lost their ever living minds. In Southwood Valley, total value went from $386k to 602k on a 33 year old house. I couldn't even come close to selling for $602k

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I suspect that is a typo in their system. Call them.

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I just checked my street on Brazos CAD, all seem to have skyrocketed like mine. At 602k, they are putting my house at $222 per square foot. That is new build prices. It's insane.

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For all those thinking the appraisals are insane, ask a realtor to get you the comps for your house and run the adjustments for your house. You can challenge based on the sales price of the comps in the area.

You may be right and have a great argument for contesting the value, or you may be surprised at what you could sell your house for.

BiochemAg97 said:

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ukbb2003 said:

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dubi said:

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ukbb2003 said:

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Brazos CAD has lost their ever living minds. In Southwood Valley, total value went from $386k to 602k on a 33 year old house. I couldn't even come close to selling for $602k

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I suspect that is a typo in their system. Call them.

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I just checked my street on Brazos CAD, all seem to have skyrocketed like mine. At 602k, they are putting my house at $222 per square foot. That is new build prices. It's insane.

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For all those thinking the appraisals are insane, ask a realtor to get you the comps for your house and run the adjustments for your house. You can challenge based on the sales price of the comps in the area.

You may be right and have a great argument for contesting the value, or you may be surprised at what you could sell your house for.

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I currently have a house in College Station listed for sale.
The listed price is 5k below the 2023 BrazosCad appraised value. My realtor is getting very little activity on the listing. The 2024 Appraised value according to Brazos County is 45k higher than the listed sales price.
For years I have believed they are pulling their appraisals from their backside.
Last years board hearings were a joke. Two rubber stamping exactly what the county recommended and a third extremely frustrated honest individual who could not get a word in.
Something has got to change.

BiochemAg97 said:

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ukbb2003 said:

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dubi said:

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ukbb2003 said:

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Brazos CAD has lost their ever living minds. In Southwood Valley, total value went from $386k to 602k on a 33 year old house. I couldn't even come close to selling for $602k

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I suspect that is a typo in their system. Call them.

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I just checked my street on Brazos CAD, all seem to have skyrocketed like mine. At 602k, they are putting my house at $222 per square foot. That is new build prices. It's insane.

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For all those thinking the appraisals are insane, ask a realtor to get you the comps for your house and run the adjustments for your house. You can challenge based on the sales price of the comps in the area.

You may be right and have a great argument for contesting the value, or you may be surprised at what you could sell your house for.

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I was working with a realtor at the end of last year as we were thinking of selling. We were in the $425k-$450k range, definitely not $600k.

A house just went for sale close to me and is listed at $174 a foot.

Anyone have good experience using a third party to protest?

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Anyone have good experience using a third party to protest?

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I've had a good experience with Ownwell so far...in fact, last year they got my valuation reduced from $275k, down to $250k, and even with that great result, they didn't charge me anything as my tax bill wasn't ultimately reduced (as the previous value was about $250k) - which is one of the things I like about their model, in that you can get reductions, but only have a pay a fee (25% of what they save you on your tax bill) if your bill actually goes down.

If you are interested, here is a referral link, that will get you a $20 credit toward any future fee (and full disclosure, I would also get a $20 credit if you use this link to sign up):

https://www.ownwell.com/referral?owl=2F6A1Z737

Hope this helps!

Zero chance my house would sell for anything close to what they have now appraised it for. In fact, zero chance it would sell for what they appraised it for last year, and now it is 25% more! Oh, but wait -- we're all supposed to vote for the school bond because poor school hasn't been able to take care of the field house over the years so now it is full of leaks and has to completely be redone. Wish I could re-do my house on the taxpayer dime!

You know what has leaks? My house. You know what needs work? My house. I don't have the money to maintain it as much as I would like, yet they think it went up 20% last year and 25% this year.

It is all but impossible to protest the appraisal without comps, but I don't have a special realtor friend who can give me comps. All I know is houses near me have sat on the market for many months with asking prices far less per square foot than they think my house is worth. I tried using an online protest company last year. Jack Squat.

How do we change out the people behind the extortion (oh I'm so sorry, I meant...) appraisal district?

BiochemAg97 said:

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ukbb2003 said:

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dubi said:

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ukbb2003 said:

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Brazos CAD has lost their ever living minds. In Southwood Valley, total value went from $386k to 602k on a 33 year old house. I couldn't even come close to selling for $602k

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I suspect that is a typo in their system. Call them.

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I just checked my street on Brazos CAD, all seem to have skyrocketed like mine. At 602k, they are putting my house at $222 per square foot. That is new build prices. It's insane.

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For all those thinking the appraisals are insane, ask a realtor to get you the comps for your house and run the adjustments for your house. You can challenge based on the sales price of the comps in the area.

You may be right and have a great argument for contesting the value, or you may be surprised at what you could sell your house for.

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You're not going to find many sales comps that help. The low supply we saw all of last year only helped push prices up on most properties. And the values are stuck from Jan 1st viewpoint. Well interest rates were closer to 6.0% then vs the 7.5%+ they are now. Houses are not moving at much of anything unless it's a fire sale or bargain prices. There were several homes for sale earlier this year that went under contract within 2 weeks of listing and now a few of the homes listed for sale are sitting for 4+ weeks as inflation has been proven to not gone down.

One of my listings is in the same boat with respect to traffic has slowed to a crawl on it because interest rates are relentlessly risen over the last 4 weeks.

Thanks. Do you get an agent or rep to talk to once you sign up and before they go protest?

Want to discuss my situation with them

Because our appraisal district is out of touch with reality, the market has changed!!

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