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Board orders assessor to verify small structure’s use after homeowner appeal
Summary
Elkhart County tax board allowed the assessor’s office to inspect a secondary building on James Bechtel’s parcel to determine whether it should be classified as a storage unit rather than a residence and to return with a corrected assessment.
Mike Settles, a member of the Elkhart County Property Tax Assessment Board of Appeals, on March 17 allowed the assessor’s office to re-inspect a smaller building on petitioner James A. Bechtel’s property to verify whether the structure is a storage unit rather than a residence and to return with a revised assessment if warranted. The board heard sworn testimony and reviewed exchanged exhibits, including property record cards, a building permit excerpt and photographs.
Bechtel testified that the smaller structure had been “decommissioned”…
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