If you would have told me yesterday that a conversation about Kitsap County Property Taxes and the process behind the machine would fascinate me, I would have given you a tolerant smile.
Today, on the other hand, fresh from a 90 minute discussion over coffee with Jim Avery and Rich Jacobson, I have a different view altogether. Jim is clearly passionate about what he does. And it’s tough to not respond in kind to his obvious enthusiasm. Maybe it was the caffeine that had us all talking so fast, but I doubt it. Jim has the rare fascility of making a subject you would think of as drier than toast, interesting.
We covered quite a bit of territory over coffee including:
- How accurate are tax assessments
- How does the Senior Citizen Exemption work and how many people does it affect
- 2 huge holes in the Zillow Valuation Model for Kitsap County Properties
- How many property owners challenge the County Assessment each year
- What happens when they do
There was way more to cover than just this. But it will take me a little time to digest what was discussed and even more time to write a post as interesting as the conversation. Stay tuned though, if you have had questions about Kitsap County’s process for establishing how many dollars you will spend for your Property Taxes, we’ll try to get them answered in a following article.
Mr. Avery has also written a guest article SoundBite will be publishing, full of information about what he and his Department do all day.
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