This could be one of those situations where the county supervisors win the battle and lose the war. Greed can kill anything good.
This war you speak of . The war for the county or the war for themselves personally ? **
I'm about as likely to trust our supervisors as I am to trust Amazon, or their motives. Being old and cynical is great. I can not like all of them.
He's not new. Data centers can be extraordinarily hard to value. It's not surprising there's a disagreement here. But there's a gulf between the two assessments.
You realize, do you not, that, if you have a current appraisal on your homestead that shows a $50,000 market value discrepancy that is in your favor, all you have to do is take that appraisal report to your tax assessor and sit down and discuss with them a modification to your ad valorem assessment? It's literally that simple. I have yet to see one instance where a property owner with a legitimate appraisal report is turned down on a request for modification. Not once.
I was turned down. I presented the appraisal from a month before, and they rejected it and kept their own assessment. They said I could fight it in court, and it was a few hundred a year, so I accepted the rejection.
Our county appraisers seem to take the opposite approach. Undervalue basically all the houses compared to market, so if you point out you’re getting screwed compared to some nearby neighbors, they ultimately have the hammer of market value. They’ve been reasonable when I have dealt with them. I think it’s mainly to just have the upper hand if you push too hard and also it’s better politics to undervalue homes and fairly value commercial and industrial, and it also makes it easier for them to do favors without getting called on it because at the end of the day, anybody that makes too big of a stink is going to end up with a higher evaluation that can be justified by the market, if not compared to valuations of nearby properties.
Ouch. I've only fought mine once; in year one. I walked in with the receipts of construction costs and stated I could have another built on the neighboring lot for the same price.
I'm saying, the supervisors could win this battle for more money this time, but piss off the golden goose enough so that the growth that they crave so much in that business park could stall out. If you were AWS, and you feel like they are squeezing you for more tax money already, during this honeymoon phase... why would you keep building in this county?
You better hope the county wins then. Cause if they can't get the tax money from AWS, they'll get it from the rest of us. If your house appraises at $350,000 you can protest your assessed valuation. You are getting screwed. My house appraises at $300,000 and its assessed value is $186,100.
That's an elected tax assessor who needs an opponent, then. No excuse for that $h!+ (unless there was something structurally wrong with your appraisal or you used an appraiser who has a $#!+ reputation).
And I'm saying I don't trust our "supervisors" to make decisions that are made strictly in the best interest of the county . I'm starting to wonder if the State (Tater) promised some concessions to AWS that had to actually be made at the county level .
It came right when I bought the place. I think the appraisal was all pretty correct/normal but not an expert in these things. I bought the place $10k lower than the appraisal, and the tax came at $10k higher than the appraisal. My house in WA state was always $50k or so below appraisal value, but this one was in NC
I know nothing about the construction of the buildings, but if they are just talking about the buildings and not the racks and actual equipment, $1,000 a sq ft seems pretty pricy. I would certainly expect it to be more valuable per sq ft than typical warehouse space, but not an order of magnitude more.
Ooh, interesting. Well if that were the case where I live, it would push up those assessments BIGLY.
If the county is over valuing your property to fleece you and this could change that then yes.
Again, I just fail to see how this wasn't worked out before, considering all the negotiations and courting that went on to get them there.
My guess is they thought it *was* worked out. Then citizens started paying attention and asking questions.
Could this change your property assessment though? You appealing it is what would change it.
It is a separate assessment though. This could be really bad reporting, but it looks like they are trying to assess the improvements to the real property at $1,300 per sq ft.
Getting a sneaky feeling the State made some promises the county wasn't aware of .
I see why you might think that, but the truth is the county (through MCEDA) was instrumental in bringing AWS here, and they were in on the negotiations throughout the whole process. The county stands to gain the most from the AWS locating there, because they get the ad valorem taxes, and would have had to sign off on any rebates/abatements/incentives that were promised. The state gets some benefit, related to some sales tax revenue and job creation.
If it is as bad as it looks, I suspect MDA will be giving Madison the message that if they hold to their current position, they will no longer get help for anything going forward if this is the way they treat prospects after they are committed.
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