Assessing & Taxation
Here you will find explanations of the basics of the assessing and taxation practices such as; Assessment Notices which are mailed out in February each year, Property Tax bills for July and December of each year, Board of Review and Board of Review Appeal Process, along with other important information.

The assessor and appraiser basically do the same thing; appraise your parcel of real estate. The main difference is that a fee appraiser will focus their efforts on only the property they have been hired to appraise, whereas the assessor must annually appraise every parcel of property. However, the assessor cannot visit every property each year. Therefore, both the appraiser and assessor try to use existing market data (properties that have already sold) in order to measure the current market value of property. Much of the valuation is done using statistics taken from the real estate market.