Many Monroe County homeowners plan to push back on assessments on Grievance Day (New York: real estate)

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"Tuesday is Grievance Day in New York and many people across Monroe County plan to push back against their skyrocketing home assessments.

A local real estate professional is offering advice on how property assessments work and why you should make sure your home isn't being over-assessed.

Some people were shocked to see their property assessments jump 30, 50 or even more than 100% as towns reassess homes to match current market value.

"You want to make sure that you're being taxed appropriately for what your house is worth," said Lane Bittner, president of the Greater Rochester Association of Realtors. "So if the houses that they're comparing it to are your value and you see houses that are, 'well this one is not as updated or this one is a little bit lower so I don't think I can sell my house for that,' then you shouldn't be paying more than really what your house can sell for."

More here: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/ro...-grievance-day

[db2797]

There is some serious overreacting on this. The tax levy on most towns should not go up. The tax rate lowers relative to the basket group of home prices. My home assessment went up 30% but my actual taxes went down slightly. Maybe individually there may be edge cases or there where a homeowners assessment went up 100% and they are paying more taxes, but since the tax levy didn't go up on average taxpayers should be relatively flat in difference. At least in my town that is