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Nearly half a million Delaware County residents have received, or will soon receive a new “property tax assessment.” Almost all of these will result in an increase in what the County believes is the “fair market value” of your property - and likely a huge tax increase.
We think every one of these assessments should be appealed. Why? The County is required to show how they arrived at the increased value and often times can’t. In the midst of a recession and global pandemic - the County thinks your property value has skyrocketed? No.
You may think the process is a waste of time or overly burdensome. It’s not. We meet, collect some basic information from you and we handle it from there.
We have unique experience in this arena. Frank has been an elected official in Delaware County for over 20 years. Mike has been a municipal solicitor for over 20 years (including over 8 years as the Delaware County solicitor).
We can help.
Call or email us (or use the Contact Us portal at the top) today about a free consultation.
If we appeal, and there is no change, we won’t charge you anything.
Fair Market Value is “the price in a competitive market a purchaser, willing but not obligated to buy, would pay an owner, willing but not obligated to sell, taking into consideration all the legal uses to which the property can be adapted and might reasonably be applied.”
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Here’s a basic list of what we’d like to collect to help us make our arguments:
Prior rent studies or professional appraisals or a new appraisal (if we deem economically feasible);
Photos of the front and rear of the properties (these are required by the Board);
Your purchase prices and dates of purchase;
Uses of the property other than as dwellings (special zoning or variances, etc.);
Comparable purchase prices of similar properties in the surrounding area;
Comparable assessment values of similar properties in the surrounding area;
Whether Tyler Technologies actually visited and measured your properties (we understand that they only visited 20% of the properties that were reassessed).