Comments on: Tax Assessment Confusion In Chicago: How Reliable is Public Tax Data?

By: Death & Taxes are Certain, Unless You Live in Chicago at ChitownLiving

Death & Taxes are Certain, Unless You Live in Chicago at ChitownLiving — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 02:44:50 +0000

[…] Have to give props to the Sellsius blog. They have done a wonderful job of capturing the tax assessment fiasco surrounding Governor Blagojevich’s home. […]

By: sellsius°

sellsius° — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:43:41 +0000

I think that is why zillow is looking for owner input. So that where critical data is missing, the owner can do the work to fill in the blanks. More needs to be known exactly how jurisdictions calculate assessments. The fact that there is an appeal process is an admission that public data inaccuracies produce inequitable results. Bad tax data is a fact of life yet only professionals on the ground realize this.
Thanks for your comment Teresa.

By: Teresa Boardman

Teresa Boardman — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:10:31 +0000

Same here in Minnesota. the zestimate comes from the bad data in tax records and what they county uses for the market value which is not the real value anyway. What I found amazing is that when I added the missing square feet and adjusted the information it still came up with the same price. The comps are coming from another city.