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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voyageur" data-source="post: 1035072" data-attributes="member: 17953">One of the many things I did was to take the Assessor's exam in Madison, and got my license. I was qualified as an assessor at all levels. It's not a complicated system, and does deal with fair market value. Some assessors are very level headed, others aren't as good at keeping the playing field fair.As an example, decades ago, the state of Wisconsin had the misguided impression that lake shore values on remote lakes in Northern Wisconsin were worth the same as the footage on Lake Mendota. It took years of good Assessors fighting this illogical evaluation to get it somewhat straightened out. I did assessing for 6 years, as a side hustle. It was very time consuming during the spring, and I had to take my vacation time to put up to 16 hours a day into it, 7 days a week. The first two years it was kinda fun, but after that, it got to be a chore. The only thing good about it was that pay check. But, in the end, I found I was putting so much time into it, to insure fair evaluations, that I was making a little less than minimum wage. During my last two years, I did reevaluations as well. I found that way too many Assessors spent way too much time setting the standards of land values based on the same criteria as was applied in areas where the land was actually much more valuable. As an example, farm land in a Northwestern county will never be as valuable as the nice, flat lands in South-central Wisconsin, where the black soil is great for crops. Yet, idiots who were clueless in Madison (political appointees) couldn't grasp that concept. Both times, it was a battle that could have ended up in court. In the end, the people were partially satisfied, but no matter what you do, someone is going to be mad about the decision.Anyhow, my take on it. Since moving to Texas, twice, I've had to go at it with the Assessor in our county, and in two hearings, I won my case. In fact, the second time around, it cost him his job, because he didn't follow through on his duties as applicable to the laws. I'll go after the next one if necessary. He or she starts this year, and I've already filed an objection to the amount of increase shown on my evlautation. Looking forward to fun in the trenches on this one..... again. I hate incompetency!</blockquote>

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