I don't think it went well. The room had several people in it and I was at least 25 years younger than anyone else in the room. They asked if I brought comparisons and I told that didn't do any good because everyone's went up so there wasnt anyone to compare to. I also talked about how our homes assessed value only increased $18k over 12 years and now it increased by $21,000 in one assessment. They said we'll the house was sold in 2015 for $196k and assessment is close to sale price. I told them that if that were true the last two time our house was sold the assessed value never changed to come close to the sale price then. I got "It was a depressed market then".
What a joke. Bunch of old grumpy people barely listening to what I had to say as they sat and looked away from me at a screen most of the time. They were going to use whatever excuse they could to justify their actions. Need to find a way to remove some of these people. One old grump ask if I had an appraisal done, I said yes, it's required for the purchase of a home. How did he not seriously know that? I asked why this kind of increase couldn't have been done over several years to allow families to adjust to increased property taxes and I got a quick, "We can't do it that way!"
Just ridiculous.