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By Vanessa Fuhrmans
The property reappraisals Douglas County taxpayers received in the mail this weekend were evidence of the property's tax relief still has a few potholes.
Kansan staff writer
A backlash of complaints hit the Douglas County Courthouse yesterday Operators in the county appraiser's office took calls from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from residents, who received their property reappraisals Saturday
August Dettbarn, an appraiser who handled incoming calls, said that all four lines were being ringer monstop. He called the calls to continue for two weeks.
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But rather than talk by telephone, one Lawrence resident yesterday morning wanted to express outrage that some County commissioners in person
James Schneider, 3708 Stelson Drive, drive, "You think I am mad? There are a lot of people out there who are madder than I am."
Schneider said he bought his home two years ago for $88,950. He had the
house appraised by an independent appraiser this year at $104,000. However, the county, which conducts the official appraisal for property tax, assessed $138,000, nearly 40 percent more than either the original cost or appraisal
"You can't tell me that the property value has gone up by 36 percent," he said. "It's beyond 'Let's investigate this and see if it's not reasonable.' There is a serious problem with the process."
Commissioner Mike Amyx said he also had received several telephone calls this weekend from property owners who were angry about repreahrais.
"I've heard of increases of over 40 percent," he said. "Quite a few may be clinical errors. Well, I can't tolerate clinical errors."
Amxy suggested that the county hire an auditor from outside the county to check the work of county appraisers. The problems caused by overblown appraisals were too severe to be dismissed, he said.
"Maybe this is what we wish property would sell for," he said. "But in truthfulness, it's not."
were inevitable so soon after the property tax crunch in 1989, when the property in Kansas was appraised for the first time in about
"We're starting a new era in property taxes," he said. "There's going to be some bugs in the process."
Allen Ford, professor of business, said that problems with reappraisals
Dettmann said that some of those bugs were due to occasional dataentry errors in the computer model the county used to calculate property value. But a bigger reason for some of the upset is that property had not been valued highly enough in 1989, the last time the county appraised property.
"We really underscored the last time," he said.
The large increases in assessed property value can be attributed to land appraisals, which jumped 40 to 50 percent in some cases, Dettbarn said. But the appraised value of most buildings decreased so the total increased by only a few percentage points.
Appeal processes for reappeal will begin at the end of April, and the county will decide most of the appeal for the first week of May. Dettarn said
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