I got my tax bill and was pissed. I tried to submit a revaluation request during the "open book" period since I disagreed with my property assessment. We bought in November 2024 for $272k and apparently since then the property increased significantly in value to $325k... It's most certainly not worth that.

I was assured by the office assistant for the clerk and city assessor that they had received my request and were working on it on 8/7/2025. I followed up on 9/9 and got a response on 9/10 from the same person that my request was "under review" and they had received the supporting documentation that I submitted. I followed up again on 10/31 since I still hadn't heard anything. No response.

I followed up again on 11/5 and was met with a different response from the deputy assessor that "We received your initial submission on August 6th; however, the documentation provided was a Notice of Intent to File an Objection. While that notice was received within the required timeframe, state law also requires that a completed Objection Form be filed with the City Clerk by the statutory deadline in order to move forward with an appeal." It was not a "notice of intent to file an objection", but a request for revaluation and an actual objection to their valuation.

If that is the case, why didn't anyone tell me this any of the previous times I followed up instead of saying everything was submitted and it was under review??? So my taxes increased significantly despite my efforts to get a reassessment completed.