The board of assessors entertain property tax appeals periodically during the year.

Make sure you have at least 3 comparables and provide evidence that your property is either similar to your comparables or worse-off from the comparables.

Assessors occasionally make mistakes in recording the structural features of your house. Property tax record are public information and state law requires that records of your appraisal and those of you neighborhood be made available to you upon request from you assessor’s office. You should check to make sure that the recorded dimensions of the house and the lot are correct. The appraisal worksheet may have missed defects that might tend to reduce the house’s value, such as settling or shifting on the foundation or being adjacent to commercial property. Unfinished attics and basements might also be misrepresented in the record’s description of rooms.