Visiting in-laws this weekend and the county assessors showed up. They come inside and tour the house, looking in every closet. Is this typical, do other areas do it like this? It seems really invasive and extra, especially in today's environment.
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Visiting in-laws this weekend and the county assessors showed up. They come inside and tour the house, looking in every closet. Is this typical, do other areas do it like this? It seems really invasive and extra, especially in today's environment.
Yeah, they have masks. Been here for about an hour, 30 minutes inside now. Can't imagine they'll be leaving soon if they're going to do the same to all of the sheds, barns and bins on the property.Were they masked up? And no, I have never heard of bullshit like that. I'd be pissed off.
Yeah, they have masks. Been here for about an hour, 30 minutes inside now. Can't imagine they'll be leaving soon if they're going to do the same to all of the sheds, barns and bins on the property.
It's not my property. The in-laws like me, so I should probably have a private conversation about doing this before I just suddenly do it. I don't see the opportunity arising in time to have this conversation.Shoot them and bury them out back.
Visiting in-laws this weekend and the county assessors showed up. They come inside and tour the house, looking in every closet. Is this typical, do other areas do it like this? It seems really invasive and extra, especially in today's environment.
I've never had an assessor inside my house. I've owned four houses in 3 states over nearly 30 years.
I asked the in-laws after they left. The response was that the county does this every 5 or so years. I guess they couldn't take the year off.Have you asked them why they are doing this, because you've never heard of it before?
Generally, small numbers should be spelled out. 0-9.And I just realized, I spelled out four, then used a 3 and a 30...I have no idea why. Not sure it breaks any unwritten rules of English, but it looks weird. Oh well.
There was one year when something changed in the assesor's office that required them to inspect inside. The assessment is not just what it looks like on the outside or area, but rooms, bathrooms, etc. But that's been once in 20 yearsVisiting in-laws this weekend and the county assessors showed up. They come inside and tour the house, looking in every closet. Is this typical, do other areas do it like this? It seems really invasive and extra, especially in today's environment.
You would run the risk in doing that of them just making the assumption that all of the space in the home, basement included, is finished. The local assessor actually came to our place several months back, but she just took a quick <10 minute walkthru and left. She was good looking, so I allowed it.I'd tell 'em to fvck off.
She was good looking, so I allowed it.
We never really "own" real estate. It's not ours. It's just on rent from the government. And the government being our landlord they can come in and inspect it annually in order to set the "rent".273.20 ASSESSOR MAY ENTER DWELLINGS, BUILDINGS, OR STRUCTURES.
Any officer authorized by law to assess property for taxation may, when necessary to the proper performance of duties, enter any dwelling-house, building, or structure, and view the same and the property therein.
Any officer authorized by law to assess property for ad valorem tax purposes shall have reasonable access to land and structures as necessary for the proper performance of their duties. A property owner may refuse to allow an assessor to inspect their property. This refusal by the property owner must be either verbal or expressly stated in a letter to the county assessor. If the assessor is denied access to view a property, the assessor is authorized to estimate the property's estimated market value by making assumptions believed appropriate concerning the property's finish and condition.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/273.20
Reported.And I just realized, I spelled out four, then used a 3 and a 30...I have no idea why. Not sure it breaks any unwritten rules of English, but it looks weird. Oh well.
We never really "own" real estate. It's not ours. It's just on rent from the government. And the government being our landlord they can come in and inspect it annually in order to set the "rent".
Only once has an assessor asked to come in our home. It was while we refinanced ten years after we moved in. The guy spent ten minutes, tops, in the house.
We never really "own" real estate. It's not ours. It's just on rent from the government.
Maybe that you really own land in the US as long as you keep paying a tax on the land, and until the government can find a better use for it, or someone else that will pay them more taxes for using it.That is literally the way it is in China. You only have limited land rights. I’m not sure what you’re saying about the United States.
Maybe that you really own land in the US as long as you keep paying a tax on the land, and until the government can find a better use for it, or someone else that will pay them more taxes for using it.
Here locally there's a farm that's been owned by the same family for 250 years. The city wanted to build a road, so they took land that essentially bisected the farm, and the courts upheld their right to do it. The new road doesn't reach an area that was previously inaccessible, it just provides a shortcut.I see, thank you and agree to an extent. There are cases of eminent domain, albeit rare.
Here locally there's a farm that's been owned by the same family for 250 years. The city wanted to build a road, so they took land that essentially bisected the farm, and the courts upheld their right to do it. The new road doesn't reach an area that was previously inaccessible, it just provides a shortcut.
"The farm has been in the Brown family for more than 250 years since Sam Brown's ancestor, Mahlon Kirkbride purchased it from Lord Fairfax in 1741..."
https://www.loudountimes.com/news/b...cle_83cd18d5-d329-55c3-86f1-d1f7962f630a.html
If you think you own your land you are severely mistaken.I see, thank you and agree to an extent. There are cases of eminent domain, albeit rare.
You would run the risk in doing that of them just making the assumption that all of the space in the home, basement included, is finished. The local assessor actually came to our place several months back, but she just took a quick <10 minute walkthru and left. She was good looking, so I allowed it.