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Old 11-02-2017, 01:47 PM
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They'll base the assessment on the sale price.
That's what they're suppose to do. But what I'm telling you is that they didn't do that a few years ago when it was sold to me, so I have no reason to believe they will this time.
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Old 11-02-2017, 02:25 PM
 
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Probably not much since your assessment will be updated upon sale of the house anyway.
Part of the reason they are in this mess is because simple things like that never actually happened, then people got pissed when they caught up years later.
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Old 11-02-2017, 02:28 PM
 
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APS spends more money per child than any school system in the state and gets mostly mediocre to terrible results. The last thing APS needs is more money. That isn't the problem.
They didn't fritter this money away (yet). It can't even be collected for them to spend because of the state rejecting the digest. They didn't spend themselves into trouble here. Any school system is going to be in the red pretty quickly when property tax collections go to zero.
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Old 11-02-2017, 02:39 PM
 
Location: NW Atlanta
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Part of the reason they are in this mess is because simple things like that never actually happened, then people got pissed when they caught up years later.
I probably should've replaced "will" with "should."
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Old 11-02-2017, 03:11 PM
 
Location: Savannah GA
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All APS has to do is take out a short term loan to cover operating costs until the tax revenue comes in (which it eventually will). School districts do this all the time at the end of the year when caught between collections and expenses.
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Old 11-02-2017, 03:13 PM
 
Location: Prescott, AZ
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All APS has to do is take out a short term loan to cover operating costs until the tax revenue comes in (which it eventually will). School districts do this all the time at the end of the year when caught between collections and expenses.
From what I've seen, they're trying to, but the magnitudes are so much that I'd be surprised if that was any kind of workable deal.
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Old 11-02-2017, 03:22 PM
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What is most definitely NOT a workable deal is closing down an entire county's school system. So it looks like the state is going to have to fund them, and then get paid back with interest after they sort out the tax mess.
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Old 11-02-2017, 03:53 PM
 
Location: Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, and Raleigh
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Everyone in the Fulton County assessors office should be fired.
Why? If market conditions yields a sudden spike in property values then you ought to reflect those increases like the Fulton County Tax Assessors Office did. Rather than doing the politically-led thing like what the idiotic Fulton County Commission did. At the end of the day, Fulton County Commission is ultimately at fault because they reverse the tax assessed values to 2016 values because of political pressure. The Tax Assessors Office is responsible for the assessments of property based on market value not the politically chosen values by elected officials...
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Old 11-02-2017, 03:59 PM
 
Location: Atlanta, Birmingham, Charlotte, and Raleigh
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You got the basics but missed a very topical detail that should slot somewhere between 5 and 6:

6A. Fulton County Commission Chair, John Eaves, pressures Fulton County assessors office into rolling back assessments in the middle of a campaign to be Atlanta's next mayor. Eaves then uses the roll-back as a frequent talking point throughout the campaign, touting it as a "win" for his constituents and boasting about lowering taxes.
I've said for awhile now that Eaves is a mole that is here to sabotage the City of Atlanta government along with getting back at Reed for "switching sides" on the South Fulton idea. He basically helped the South Fulton crew run-a-mok by blocking whole neighborhoods that wanted no part of that revenue-deprived jurisdiction from annexing into the City of Atlanta like the Falls of Cascade, Cascade Manor, and various individual property owners along Cascade Road and Sandtown. Now this fool has the audacity to run for the Mayor of Atlanta like we are stupid and ill-informed of his hand in those prior antics in addition to this one. The irony is the people whom didn't want to be a part of Atlanta because of APS and a part of South Fulton might wind up with their so-called "better" schools closed along with the ones in APS because of the same man. Eaves ought have a can of red paint thrown on him for his blatant stupidity and willful ignorance.
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Old 11-02-2017, 04:01 PM
 
Location: NW Atlanta
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Why? If market conditions yields a sudden spike in property values then you ought to reflect those increases like the Fulton County Tax Assessors Office did. Rather than doing the politically-led thing like what the idiotic Fulton County Commission did. At the end of the day, Fulton County Commission is ultimately at fault because they reverse the tax assessed values to 2016 values because of political pressure. The Tax Assessors Office is responsible for the assessments of property based on market value not the politically chosen values by elected officials...
I agree. The problem is that the Assessors Office should be cleaned out because they failed to keep up with assessments for the past 5-6 years. It's not the increase that was the problem, but trying to do it in one fell swoop after they didn't do their jobs for years.
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