Well - I had an informal for 4 separate properties today.
First one is across the street from Lake Houston. House across street is within 1 year, 100sf, and same lot size. Valued at 20k less. She offered no decrease b/c "Land on the water is worth less than land not on the water." Neither lot is in any flood zone. So I said "That is great to now, I had no idea. Can you please put that on my file for the formal." She put it down and agreed on the precedent.
Second house ... it is my very own lakefront home! I said, "Okay, so we have set the precedent regarding value on lake value so i will skip the repair list and go straight to comparable non-lakefront home across the street. " She immediately walked away to speak with supervisor and said I need to go to formal hearing b/c she cant help.
What a clown show. Luckily for her I was able to waste 2.5 hours of her time to get 3 of 4 sent to formal...and only got yelled at once. Being patient with these clowns is key, but when they dont like you from the start...never let them off the hook. It is like teaching a child an important lesson where they get no closure from being right or wrong.
So here is to my formals coming up
- none of them will go up as they pretty much jumped the shark on the values already.