Twyndom Terrace is also on the upper side of Oxford Road.
The report is a pdf document and will print on a 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper.
On the report, Year 2003 is highlighted in yellow because
that is the year that the homes were in a Neighborhood Code (4807) that was reassessed.
Surprise! Surprise! Once again, another street,
Twyndom Terrace, is just like Hughes Lane, Roman Road
and Tibbitts Road. All
but 2 and 4 Twyndom Terrace were in Neighborhood Code 4811 (Rural) until 2003.
In 2003, they moved the
other 13 parcels
into Neighborhood Code 4807 (Older Subdivisions)--that would be the year that
Neighborhood 4807 was supposedly
reassessed. However, only 2 Twyndom Terrace
(highlighted in gray on the spreadsheet) was reasssessed in 2003. There are 15 parcels on Twyndom Terrace, yet only one
of them were reassessed in 2003. In 2004, everyone was
trended 5.5%. Doesn't it seem odd that only 1 parcel increased in
value in 2003, yet all of them increased 5.5% in 2004?
Like the 43 parcels on Upper Tibbitts Road and
2 parcels on Sleepy
Hollow Lane these 14 properties on Twyndom Terrace were merely trended in 2004 so
percentage-wise the assessments were actually raised less than homes in
Neighborhood Code 4817 (Starter Homes). Neighborhood Code
4817 (Starter Homes) was trended 7.5% in 2004.
So far, that makes a total of
78 homes on 5 streets in a very small area that have not been reassessed. Why did they move them into
Neighborhood Code 4807 in 2003 and then not reassess them?
Why were they ever in Neighborhood Code 4811 (Rural)? Did you
notice that the two parcels have a different tax map number (highlighted
in green on the spreadsheet) than
the rest of them. Do you think
that might be why there are two different Neighborhood Codes on Twyndom
Terrace or do you believe that most of the homes are Neighborhood Code
4811 (rural) except for 2 that are Neighborhood Code 4807 (older
subdivision)? If you haven't read our report "The Rest of the
Story" , you might want to do that now--it will help
clarify the tax map number question.
Is it just a coincidence that
most of the homes on the
upper side of Oxford Road did not increase in value or is there
something wrong in that part of town? We live just below
Oxford Road and we are in Neighborhood Code 4807 yet our assessment was
increased 17% in 2003 and then trended another 5.5% in 2004.
Are there "pockets" of homes in New Hartford that just don't have any
investment quality. I could understand if one or two homes on a
street don't increase because they are not well-maintained and in need
of a great deal of repair, but 78 homes in close proximity to
each other on 5 streets in a town where no one can argue that market
values were rising in 2003 and 2004--just seems a little bit far fetched to me.
Don't people buy homes as investments? Why would you buy a home
that doesn't increase in value while everyone's home around you does?
Let me stress this again. The equalization rate is determined by the State using
their estimation of the Total Assessed Value of the Town of New Hartford vs. the actual total assessed value of
properties in the Town of New Hartford. Therefore, if there are a lot of under-assessed homes in New Hartford, the
equalization rate takes a nosedive every time one of those homes sells for more than the assessed
value. Not to
mention the fact that it just isn't fair to make some people have to grieve
their assessment while others sit on there
a$$,
nor should anyone have to pay more than their fair share and clearly
everyone should be paying their fair share.
Believe me everyone is affected by this type of "selective reassessing".
Fair assessing in the Town of New Hartford? You decide.
Take a look at our other spreadsheets (in pdf format--you will need 8.5 by 14 paper to print or you will have
to piece smaller sheets together after printing)
Paris Road, Higby Road, Jordan
Road and Lloyds Lane. More streets will be added.
Please keep watching this site if you want to know what really
happened. Email us
New Hartford, N.Y. Online if you have any questions or better yet, check with the assessor to see if he agrees with our reports
and then ask him "How Come?"
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