I see so many people looking for ways to fill the time during the quarantine, so I've created a virtual scavenger hunt! The first three people to complete the scavenger hunt will get a free Competitive Market Analysis (CMA) of your home once the threat of COVID-19 has passed. If you're interested in listing your home in the future, this will help you know where your home stands and what you can do to add value. If you're not interested in listing, it's still fun to know. Plus, I've done these for people who ended up using it to get a BIG cut in their property taxes! If you're not local, I can still do a virtual CMA, but it's less likely to hold up in a tax dispute. If you're interested in that service, I can connect you with an agent who's local to you, so still play along! And if you're not currently a home owner and a CMA can't help you, there are plenty of other services I provide, so still play and we'll find a great ...

Disclaimer: Originally posted December 2, 2019 on a site that has since become unusable for my purposes. My grandpa used to say the only things you have to do are pay taxes and die.  A bit morbid, perhaps!  But he’s right.  The flip side is, you  don’t  have to accept the property tax bill you’re sent!   I recently had the opportunity to help a friend whose property taxes skyrocketed this year.  Her home had been reassessed and she was told its value had increased by over $30,000.  While the county wasn’t going to make it easy, they did give her an option to dispute the increase. As a Realtor, I know quite a bit about home values, so my friend immediately called me for help.  I conducted a Competitive Market Analysis, basically a quick walk-through of the house and asked her several questions, then sat down with that information to evaluate.  Turns out?  She was right!  The new assessment pretty unreasonable, it was n...