What's the OT Wisdom on NOLA Assessment Increases / Appeals

New Orleans East to benefit while everyone else is fricked! Repeat and Rinse again and again.

Orleans tax assessment Value is determined bybwho ya mama and them know. Is Latoya breaking precedent here?

Get an accurate appraisal and comps from a real estate agent and go please your case...

I won an appeal a few years ago and that's how I did it.

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They effectively removed my homestead exemption from the past year with the new increase.

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You got off easy brah - I'm up ~40% and that's five years after purchase.

I'm hoping "honestly my house is much shittier than my neighbors just come look around" is a valid ground for appeal

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You got off easy brah - I'm up ~40% and that's five years after purchase.

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Go in with a purchase agreement at their appraised value.

Make them sign it.

Profit.

I'm just here to point and laugh at people who put up with Orleans Parish's high taxes and complete shite for public services.

And FWIW, heard on the radio this morning you have 10 days left if you want to file an appeal

Where do I go once I have an appraisal in hand?

Mine actually went down. The land increased by 35k but the building went down 65k.

I would fight it anyway - bring a copy of the purchase agreement.

What could be better proof of value

I won appeals twice with the assessor's office in the past 8 years.

1) First time they never sent me a letter telling me when my appeal was. Received a letter a week after I "missed" my appointment. Of course when I looked at my file, it was processed at 1:35 am on a Friday morning. Appealed to the state and won, state official came out and took 15 minutes and said I was correct.

2) Appeal #2 few years later, received an appointment time from the city on this one. Wife went in with the previous information from the state. City said they couldn't use it, because it was out of date.
My wife told them that my house didn't grow an additional 800 square feet since the state's appeal. So the assessor reversed it.

Yes, the city some how had randomly added over 800 square feet to my house. Told my brother about, he checked and his house grew by 500 square feet, so he also appealed and won.