It isn’t often that stories involving home owners and property tax matters are positive in nature, but in Wake County there seems to something afoot. Short version is that owners do have the right to appeal what the county says their property is worth. During that appeal, a Board of Adjustments hears their rationale. In Wake:
County officials have heard 12,184 of the 28,867 appeals filed, and values in 7,291 of the cases heard so far have resulted in adjustments, said Ken McArtor, Wake County’s appraisal manager.
The work is tedious, but the backside of this appeal is that “the adjustments have cut about $500 million from the overall assessed value of the property” in Wake County. What this proves is that paying attention as a citizen does matter!
