Any tips?

This property is listed as "excellent" desirability while no others on the street are. It's also assessed over $200k when the next highest is $175k. Does the improvement price per sq ft matter at all? I'm at $140/ft and others listed as "very good" (a step lower than excellent) are $93-107/ft.

Any info would be helpful! Thanks in advance.

Tips:
Fight fight fight, encourage your neighbors to do the same
Make sure you've got a homestead exemption or other eligible exemptions (65+)
2019 values will come out in early April, start preparing your protest now

Follow this how-to on your protest. Jon Alschuler is a big time commercial real estate guy who wrote this.

Same strategy.

These assessments are getting insane. I can't protest mine because it's always land value increases.

Protest online. If you don't get a settlement you like then go see someone in the appraisers office in person prior to your official hearing. Have had good luck talking informally in this way. They are much more rigid in my experience in the hearing.

I successfully protested my value last year on the basis of higher assessed value per sq ft than other houses in my neighborhood. Every year I just use the CAD property search to try and identify something in the numbers that show me higher than my neighbors in assessed value. I always get an offer, usually to stay the same value as the prior year.

The fact that homeowners have to pay increased taxes over the perceived "VALUE" and not the SALE of the home is absolute highway robbery. It blows my mind.

O'Doyle Rules said:

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The fact that homeowners have to pay increased taxes over the perceived "VALUE" and not the SALE of the home is absolute highway robbery. It blows my mind.

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Why do you think people avoid permitting for minor home renovations?

It is insane to me that you make an improvement to your home, and the gov't immediately is able to capture additional tax based on unrealized value.

It'd be like if I bought Apple stock in 1997, and they'd been taxing me all the way up.

They should be able to reassess when the house is sold, but otherwise buzz off.