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Several owners get assessment changes after condition and sale reviews, assessor says
Summary
Staff detailed multiple adjustments: lowering values where homes were misclassified or in poor condition, and raising values where sales or improvements warranted it. Examples included reclassifying a storage building, re-rating one-story homes, and adjusting structure values to reflect sales.
During the session staff moved through a list of owner requests and sale-driven reviews that produced both increases and decreases in assessed structure values.
Examples included lowering the Roble property after reclassifying it from a two-story to a one-and-a-half story, reducing a dwelling value for Kathy Risewig after confirming it is essentially a one-story, and lowering a property used as storage (David Jorgensson) from about $20,521 to $11,650 because it is not livable. Another owner, Dixie Marsh, had upstairs plumbing and flooring problems and staff reduced the assessed structure value when the upstairs was found unusable (Staff member: SEG 411-437).
Staff also noted a number of increases tied to recent sales or improvements: an owner who replaced windows and doors and insulated the home (Carl and Michelle Williams) saw the structure value raised to reflect those improvements, and multiple other sales prompted corresponding assessment updates. Staff invited owners to follow up with the assessor's office for questions.
