Assessors

[Lumbappr13]

When are these assessors going to get into the 2000s. Cant find jack in MI. Regretting moving here as appraising is a pain now.

 

[Carnivore]

Well look a it this way...your outdated not with the times assessor is slowing the rate of takeover byCorelogic and other entities that want to put you out of business.

 

[KHS445]

What area of Michigan are you working in? I can tell you in my area (NW LP) the quality of the information available and the amount of cooperation received can go from fantastic to non-existent one jurisdiction to the next.

 

[Michigan CG]

Data can be hard to find but it is there if you make the right connections.

 

[EddieB]

Back in my day when I was a trainee ........ {you may or may not of heard the rest}.......
My favorite part of the job was the "shoe leather research", going to the courthouses, ROD, planning department, assessors offices in each county I covered. Plus all the Realtors, landowners and leasing outfits.
I expect some of that exists today

 

[Artemis Fowl]

https://bsaonline.com/MunicipalDirectory
http://w1.lara.state.mi.us/platmaps/
https://www.michigan.gov/treasury/0,4679,7-121-1751_2228-423932--,00.html

Welcome to Michigan.

 

[ucbruin]

Back in my day when I was a trainee ........ {you may or may not of heard the rest}.......
My favorite part of the job was the "shoe leather research", going to the courthouses, ROD, planning department, assessors offices in each county I covered. Plus all the Realtors, landowners and leasing outfits.
I expect some of that exists today

I like today's online data so much better than the days of driving to townhall to pull field cards/assessor maps/zoning maps/etc.

Smaller towns weren't always open M-F, closed for lunch, limited the number of field cards, you get the idea.....

 

[Overimprovement]

I did a very rural one last year in a county with 7000 people. Of course nothing was online. No MLS or other online sales available either. The assessor's 'office' was a desk in the corner of a hallway. The 'data' was hand-written cards in a $1.00 recipe card holder that were updated twice a year, from the clerk's office. And they were 3 months behind doing that. Had to go to clerk's office to manually go through their deed book and look for sales that way. The data on each sale/deed transfer at the clerk's office? Name, address, purchase amount.

Fun times...

 

[Carnivore]

Back in my day when I was a trainee ........ {you may or may not of heard the rest}.......
My favorite part of the job was the "shoe leather research", going to the courthouses, ROD, planning department, assessors offices in each county I covered. Plus all the Realtors, landowners and leasing outfits.
I expect some of that exists today

Old School Did the same thing myself in the past few months. Why because what I needed was not on-line. Why wasn't it on-line? Because it takes time for them to update and some stuff is not available on-line at all.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

As pitiful as most of Oklahoma info is, there are 3 vendors that cover all or most of the counties with compiled assessor data. There are also sites that compiles deeds and mortgages starting at $10 a month. And some counties are free. Oklahoma, Garfield, Payne, and Canadian counties can be accessed without cost for deeds and mortgages. A couple others have fee access - Grady comes to mind.
Garfield county is the newest free site I know. Very easy to search.
http://www.gcclerk.org/public/
So I would start by calling the assessor and asking them if there is a vendor that covers their data and how often is it updated.