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#1 FreeBird

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 07:14 AM

just got a notice that they are to be mailed today.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 07:32 AM

*sigh* I also seen paulding on the news last night about the new tax increase that will be voted on.

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#3 Starr & Dru's Nana

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 08:23 AM

I fully expect that in spite of the fact that the value of our house went down $22,000 since last year that our tax bill will increase. Thanks Cobb County! :angry2:

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 04:13 PM

We purchased a home in downtown Hiram this past Sept.. We will get billed for Hiram city and Paulding county taxes?

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 04:18 PM

............sigh........

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#6 Starr & Dru's Nana

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 04:23 PM

Yes, you will. Probably not at the same time either.

momnteacher, on 01 June 2012 - 04:13 PM, said:

We purchased a home in downtown Hiram this past Sept.. We will get billed for Hiram city and Paulding county taxes?

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#7 JYD

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 05:57 PM

I don't think Hiram has a city tax. At least they didn't when I lived in the city.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 06:01 PM

JYD, on 01 June 2012 - 05:57 PM, said:

I don't think Hiram has a city tax. At least they didn't when I lived in the city.

There are no City Taxes in Hiram, unless they changed it for this year.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 06:02 PM

FreeBird, on 01 June 2012 - 07:14 AM, said:

just got a notice that they are to be mailed today.

At least we don't have Jerry dreaming up new ways to tax us.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 07:28 PM

Inspector Callahan, on 01 June 2012 - 06:01 PM, said:

There are no City Taxes in Hiram, unless they changed it for this year.

AWESOME

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#11 Starr & Dru's Nana

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 07:35 PM

Maybe we should be looking for a house in Hiram. I thought they had city property taxes. If not, a big plus for moving to Hiram. :pardon:

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 07:45 PM

Starr & Dru, on 01 June 2012 - 07:35 PM, said:

Maybe we should be looking for a house in Hiram. I thought they had city property taxes. If not, a big plus for moving to Hiram. :pardon:

We like it here in the historic area. It is close enough to everything you need, but yet you don't hear all the noise and such from the 4 lane. Being as close as we are, right down from the police dept., we like the extra protection...being that the police are always going in front of our home.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 08:04 PM

My youngest daughter lives in downtown Austell. They love living in a small town like that.

If you're close to the police station, you're close to the train tracks, too. And congratulations on getting the house!!

momnteacher, on 01 June 2012 - 07:45 PM, said:

See, no one in the South ever asks if you have crazy people in your family. They just ask which side they're on. -- Julia Sugarbaker

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 08:41 PM

I doubt seriously if the assessments go up much, if any at all. There will always be a few but I suspect that will be a minority of less than 20% that go up.

I also suspect that many will go down.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 08:42 PM

ugh I will freak if our taxes go up. As if it isn't bad enough to not be able to sell the house. grr

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 09:19 PM

Starr & Dru, on 01 June 2012 - 08:04 PM, said:

Yes we are and we LOVE our trains.

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Posted 01 June 2012 - 10:02 PM

They love the trains. They get to see the Crescent every day and once or twice a year the Ringling Brothers Circus train goes through town.

BTW, you're not that far from my oldest daughter. She still lives on Hiram Sudie, where she moved all those years ago when you two were in high school.

momnteacher, on 01 June 2012 - 09:19 PM, said:

Yes we are and we LOVE our trains.

Thank you.

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 03:31 AM

I'm in Cobb. I fought my 2011 Assessment and won - they reduced my assessment 10K. When I received my 2012 assessment, the value of my house was reduced a further 8K.

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 07:07 AM

momnteacher, on 01 June 2012 - 09:19 PM, said:

Yes we are and we LOVE our trains.

Thank you.

Close to the Olive Tree!!..........That would ruin me...Such good food.

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 08:20 AM

I have recieved assessment from Fulton,Bibb and Crawford county ,they have been fair but it is Paulding that scares me the worse. I was in Byron Georgia the other day and filled up my truck for $3.03 a gallon, I was in Cartersville yesterday and gas was $3.26. for the life of me I cannot understand why gas is so expensive here and you can cross into another county and the price drops, is there a hidden tax that we do not know about?Just curious.

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 09:55 AM

Garden Girl, on 02 June 2012 - 08:20 AM, said:

Probably because the EPA forces certain 'boutique' blends to be sold in all of the the metro areas of the county. To make it worse, each area must have a different blend. These blends add to the cost.

Who is John Gault? - He's the successful business owner who didn't want to play by the new 'Law of the Land' so he closed up shop, packed up his stuff and left. He was joined by many other successful business owners who did the same. They stayed away until the government begged them to return and repealed the law.

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Oh No Its Me, on 01 June 2012 - 08:42 PM, said:

ugh I will freak if our taxes go up. As if it isn't bad enough to not be able to sell the house. grr

We will be selling our Hiram house this time next year, and just take the hit. Being a long distance landlord is a pain in the butt.

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Posted 02 June 2012 - 05:13 PM

momnteacher, on 01 June 2012 - 04:13 PM, said:

We purchased a home in downtown Hiram this past Sept.. We will get billed for Hiram city and Paulding county taxes?

Actually, I don't recall the city of Hiram ever collecting property taxes. Both Braswell and Dallas collects a few mills of city tax, but not Hiram. However, the city property taxes are in addition to whatever city taxes so it is not like you don't have to pay county property tax if you live in the Hiram.

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PUBBY, on 02 June 2012 - 05:13 PM, said:

Yea, and the big tax (18 mils?) is the school tax and I think that's everywhere since the cities don't run their own schools.

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Posted 03 June 2012 - 03:01 PM

Opened mine from Cobb - just over the line from Paulding - didn't change a penny from last year.

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 11:23 AM

Holy Carp!!

Just got mine, a $30,000+ increase in value, almost 13%! And that after being flat last year.

Glad to see our county officials think the housing market has recovered so well!!

They pull this on everyone and they won't need a mil rate increase....

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 11:45 AM

My value went up 18,000. Guess if they are raising everyone's value THEY DO NOT NEED THEY MILLAGE INCREASE FOR FIRE!!! I'm calling now to tell them how I feel!

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 01:48 PM

While I saw an increase last year, mine went down $26,000 this year. :wacko:

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 02:30 PM

FYI, if you think your assessment is unfair, you are free to file an appeal. Instructions should be with the assessment notice.

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 02:35 PM

Starr & Dru, on 04 June 2012 - 02:30 PM, said:

FYI, if you think your assessment is unfair, you are free to file an appeal. Instructions should be with the assessment notice.

Be prepared to document comparable properties for the year prior. If you are appealing 2012, you'll have to develop all your data based on 2011 comparable properties. When I appealed my Cobb 2011 assessment, all my data was based on 2010 comps. It takes a lot more work than simply saying your assessment is too high. You have to prove it; usually with 5-6 comps. While I was not able to get my assessment reduced to where my data said it should be, the Cobb Assessor (with the board of equalization) did reduce it by 4% for 2011. For 2012, my assessment dropped another 3%. I'm not appealing this year.

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 02:46 PM

You're absolutely correct. You can't go in there and just say "I think this is wrong". You have to have PROOF that their assessment is too high.

We are 2 for 3 on appeals. The first time we simply weren't prepared.

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 03:35 PM

well, mine dropped 22K.....

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 03:55 PM

we got ours today

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 03:57 PM

Mine dropped $30,000!

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 03:57 PM

I just received mine today and mine went down, 5k.

Now is this the value of the house? Because they are friggin mistaken if they think my house is worth what they have down.

EDIT: Never mind, I looked it up.

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 04:03 PM

Ours increased 66%. ????

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 04:14 PM

69% increase here. Just wonderful.

$456 increase from last year. Our 40% assessed value increased 15,120 from prior year. I guess the housing market is booming again. :rolleyes:

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 04:15 PM

Mine increased 20k.

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 04:22 PM

scjr, on 04 June 2012 - 04:14 PM, said:

69% increase here. Just wonderful.

$456 increase from last year. Our 40% assessed value increased 15,120 from prior year. I guess the housing market is booming again. :rolleyes:

If it is, then why did mine go down? We even added another bedroom to the house and remodeled inside and outside.

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Posted 04 June 2012 - 04:27 PM

Mine has dropped so much that all we could do when we saw it was laugh. We are so upside down in our mortgage that we're stuck here for at least another 20 years.