The Appraisal Subcommittee Busted

[Terrel L. Shields]

half the time improvements are not picked up for years,

Our county is quite aggressive about keeping up with the new construction - uses digital data to find new construction in addition to cruising the building sites as they are being built. But I was in a distant county doing an estate and I found sales that were still not on the assessor's records 6 years after construction. Without the MLS, I would not have known it even existed. The counties are supposed to reassess every 3rd year and obviously this one wasn't.