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Needham landlord raises assessment and equity concerns as assessors announce mixed abatement rulings
Summary
At a July 31 meeting of the Needham Board of Assessors, landlord and longtime resident John Warshick criticized large increases in property assessments and asked for meetings on specific parcels; the board announced denials and grants on several abatement applications after an executive session.
John Warshick, a Needham resident and landlord, told the Town of Needham Board of Assessors on July 31 that recent assessment increases on several of his properties left him unable to absorb higher taxes and forced him to consider state appeals. “Now with these tax increases this past year, some of my taxes went up 50% on one of the properties,” Warshick said during public comment at the board's hybrid Zoom meeting.
Warshick said he rents mostly one-bedroom units to local residents and that he tries to keep rents reasonable; he told the board he has filed abatements for multiple addresses and plans to appeal to the Appellate Tax Board (ATB) if he and assessors cannot reach agreement. “I was hit with this all at once,” he said. “If you had warned me a year or two in advance… I could have adjusted the leases in advance.”
Why it matters: Warshick framed the issue as…
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