{"id":196126,"date":"2008-05-22T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/22\/aggressive-challenges-to-property-tax-assessments-rising\/"},"modified":"2008-05-22T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T10:11:00","slug":"aggressive-challenges-to-property-tax-assessments-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/22\/aggressive-challenges-to-property-tax-assessments-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggressive Challenges to Property Tax Assessments Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not surprising.<\/p>\n<p>People are struggling, and their assessed property value often is well over market rate, so it is no surprise that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/business\/ny-bztax0517,0,2711985.story\">a rapidly growing industry is evolving to help people challenge property tax assesments<\/a>, particularly among people attempting to sell their homes.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that one has successfully lowered the taxes makes the home more salable.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it&#8217;s going to devastate the tax revenues of municipalities just as an economic downturn increases demand for their services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not surprising. People are struggling, and their assessed property value often is well over market rate, so it is no surprise that a rapidly growing industry is evolving to help people challenge property tax assesments, particularly among people attempting to sell their homes. The fact that one has successfully lowered the taxes makes &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1009,1088,983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-government","category-real-estate","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}