How Many Of Of You Use The Assessor Sketch?

[Bobby Bucks]

What's alarming about some of the knee jerk reactions regarding the utilization of tax assessor’s cards as a tool is those accusers are not only probably appraising and reviewing, they’re breeding.

 

[Otis Key]

Or, like some of us, they don't have access to the assessor's cards, sketch or records. Count your blessings and be happy.

 

[TEL2002]

All in favor of having Edd flogged at the town's public URAR pole say 'aye'.

 

[Bobby Bucks]

Terry I love reading C S Forester & Patrick O’Brian and used to wonder how on earth the most civilized nation at the time reveled in using the cat o nines to enforce discipline. On any given day in here it’s obvious human nature has the same pent-up propensity, fortunately with due process and our checks and balances it cannot be unleashed.

I suppose in here the flogging will continue until morale and abidance of their version of the USPAP improves.

 

[Stone]

Originally posted by Bobby Bucks@Nov 5 2005, 03:40 PM
I suppose in here the flogging will continue until morale and abidance of their version of the USPAP improves.

The important part of that comment, IMO, is "their version." Over the last few weeks, there have been several comments that I have found interesting. All have involved looking for appraisers to meet their expectations, not USPAP or Fannie/Freddie guidelines. It has been an eye-opener to me, as someone who does not review, seeing how many here seem to expect appraisers to prepare their reports for their individual desires/tastes, as opposed to the actual clients' expectations.

 

[Ken Miller]

Originally posted by Mike Garrett, RAA@Nov 4 2005, 10:24 PM
This is for all those who have problems with their county assessor's websites. Go to this link which is my county assessor's page.

Once on the search page enter 7382 Bentwater and check out the information available. Check out the on-line sketch. One the last sale, click on anything with a line under it...will take you to another screen.

http://land.elpasoco.com

This sit is my favorite county website to use. It has the best info out of all of the county websites I've used. It can only be improved IMO by making it capable of searching for sales online. Check it out. I find it interesting to see what other state's have for thier county's info. Thanks for your post Mike.

Lucas County, Ohio Online Info

Click on the Areis Online Map Picture and it will open in a new window. You can search for any property by owner's name, address, street, parcel number. Just type in a street name and see what comes up.

 

[Farm Gal]

Bucks you are a hoot!

I use assessors information both preemptively and defensively:

as in it's a whole lot easier to check their measure against my observed version of realty (snicker) so I don't have to try to draw orthogonal lines on-site by rubbing a piece of processed up tree parts embedded with a non-lead based cylindrical against other even more processed tree parts product most folks call 'paper'...all of which are whipping in the wind or the inevitable downpour. Crude methods work but not as well as playing SMART.

And to prevent Bobby's oft-referenced visions of with-hunting or inquisition being foisted on my precious person... if there IS a discrepancy, betwixt me and whichever 'them' forms the official county data... I simply submit the fact that I done measured twice an so the appraisers is perforce WRONG. The best defense is a good offense... and if a reviewer elects to believe some other source then I will stand over their accusing finger and stomp onnit! ~RTFR~

Interesting that you reference past barbarism in allusion to future anticipated behaviors...

I have elected an un-obvious November 1 hiding place: filling out government designed forms, installed into an up-to-date tablet computer which is running an archaic and poorly designed program, in the Quixotic hope that I am doing some good for innocent victims of mother nature's pitched fit: ALL to be reviewed by faceless individuals working on the government dime somewhere I cannot go choke them for inevitable kick-backs and rewrites to individual specification.

Interestingly, the same preemptive habits formed in years of REALLY writing to Fannie or HUD specs while attempting to suit commission based front line payees, seems to work nicely. Of the tens of thousands of files kicked back for this-n-that I have received only 2: I forgot to fill in one blank, and the hand drawn dimension on one sketch wasn't large enough to be read clearly.
(I prefer the paper based methods me-self)...

Numbers based folks forget in their arrogance to explain explain explain, and word based people who don't try to fit maximum data into little bitty boxes are too verbose.

Appraising job skills transfer into other avenues folks.

Scary that they fit well into a gobmint job innit? :blink:
FWIW ain't GOT no gobmint measures yet down here... Nawlins took quite the hit!~

 

[xm72mhd]

Originally posted by Lee Ann@Nov 6 2005, 10:17 AM
rubbing a piece of processed up tree parts embedded with a non-lead based cylandril against other even more processed tree parts product

Processed tree parts? Me thinks you're one of these.

word based people who don't try to fit maximum data into little bitty boxes are too verbose.

Did you mean to say pencil and paper? Oh, that's the point, isn't it?

Lee Ann, you been hiding out. How are you in bayou country?

 

[Farm Gal]

I ain't in the bayou's... Methinks I'd be safer there <_< ... I been working the Downtown and Uptown (New Orleans has both). Concrete and stunted trees ain''t my natural habitat. h34r:

Doing OK cepting for the inevitible paper-shuffle. You never met a pin-head desk-jockey who asks really REALLy stupid questions and makes your life miserable until you try to get a simple and LEGITIMATE gobmint reimbursement voucher past the pay-people. Rewrite this It is the new rule, Oh yeah of COURSE we changed the rules since last week, rewrite that, and by damn it ALL best be in blue ink.... nevermind that they immediately copy it in black, and that it's okey dokey to use a confuser to print it out in black Seems some foks (my fine self included) have maxed out their gobmint credit cards with few dimes back from Uncle Sam to pay em off. Wonder if the mint forgot how to print money?

Other than that the food is good, the majority of the people are really great, and most of my co-workers are fine folks with whom to associate. Interesting to be out and about instead of desk-hobbled in the basement, I am getting a "farmer's tan"!

 

[Scott Haskins]

We don't have assessor's sketches here in Nor Cal, but in the long run, I would probably bet my last dollar that the accuracy of an assessors sketch is better than the appraisers. There's a good percentage of appraisers who don't even know how to measure, and when their measurements don't add up to the public record, THEY JUST MAKE IT UP!

Case in point, I was given an appraisal for reference for the subject I saw last week. There was an addition and partial garage conversion to living area. This was beyond Skippy's analytical compacity, and the result is the attached PDF. This was inspected one week prior to me seeing it, nothing has changed. And yes, this is the same house!!!!