# Negatives to Appealing Your Property Tax Appraisal?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negatives-to-appealing-your-property-tax-appraisal/611539>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 2, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negatives-to-appealing-your-property-tax-appraisal/611539 "2012-02-02T15:15:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/negatives-to-appealing-your-property-tax-appraisal/611539/21 "2012-02-08T14:50:56Z")

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> [@Musicat](#):
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> Without knowing if there was a blanket revaluation, I can’t tell if that is a one-year jump or several years. A reval revises ALL property values to bring them back in line with the market, and that might have happened in your case.
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> In my area, the assessed value (upon which the tax is based) does not change between revals unless there was a major alteration on the property, like building a house, adding a room or a successful challenge by the property owner. Revals can be many years apart; if the market is stable, there’s no reason to do one, which costs the town a lot of money.

I think that’s exactly what happened. The tax has gone up in $100-or-so increments every since the housing bubble. It wasn’t just me. I had a few neighbors who appealed back then, too. I don’t recall what their outcome was.

There’s also been a rash of remodeling in my neighborhood too. Almost everybody who’s bought into the neighborhood the past couple of years has got some kind of project going on. I know their taxes will go up when all is completed, but does that mean mine will go up too, even though my house hasn’t been touched in years?

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