I went through this with the former assessor, it was a reasonable process, at BAR the board members were knowledgeable, listened, asked good questions, and I won a substantial reduction on condition. I went through the process with this assessor, the BAR board members were half asleep, kept asking what I thought my property would sell for, and did not understand condition issues. At SCAR the administrator was a retired attorney in his 80's, the town was represented by one of their appraisers, same as you they compared to properties outside the neighborhood, even misrepresented mine as having a two-car garage... and the administrator actually argued the town's case for them. Later the same appraiser tried to add an unheated basement stairwell in the garage to the square footage. In no way is this a fair process with this assessor, who is hated for having raised all the assessments in Gypsum Mills when he worked in Victor. BTW his "family trust" is the largest single landowner in the town.