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Dear Tax Doctor: What are the typical arguments that the city makes for raising the value of the improvement when there have been no upgrades to the property since the previous evaluation?¬† Also, what are the best counters to the city arguments other than comps.¬† Thank you. Christopher McGuire, Vice President, Briggs Freeman | Sotheby’s…
A reader writes: We are somewhat new homeowners living in Lake Highlands (75238) where the Dallas CAD has our property values all over the place.¬† Our home is not updated, except for one bathroom.¬† We are appraising on the CAD for $215K.¬† What is frustrating is that my next door neighbor (I have not been…
A reader writes and the Tax Doc will respond! By the way, if you have NOT received your appraisal in the mail, that means your taxes are unchanged from last year. But you can still go down and try to lower your appraised values. In fact, the Tax Doctor advises it. Hi Candy, We are…
Thinking of buying a house in Dallas but wonder when the sweet spot really hits? Last week, the Financial Times blessed us with a rather simple-minded story on how much better our economy is faring in Dallas. The criteria? A crane-count. (Last time I was in Manhattan, there were a ton of cranes there, too.)…
This is the new breed of tech savvy Realtor ‚Äî excuse me, iRealtor ‚Äî and I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: the Clay Stapp style is shaking things up in this town. They do contracts on ipads. They promote properties elusively on the web, they twitter, tweet, blog, Facebook, Four-Square, Digg, AIM, everything.…
