hey everyone quick question for anyone who has dealt with this before. i just bought a house here and the county hit me with an assessed value thats like hundreds of thousands more than what i actually paid for it. feels like they just didn't even look at recent comps or the actual sale price when they ran the number has like anyone actually won an appeal with the county board
Got my King County valuation notice in the mail yesterday and im just baffled. Market has clearly cooled down around here, houses on my street are sitting way longer, yet the county decided my place magically gained like 15% in value over the last year. Tried looking into a real estate tax appeal online, but the local firms want a massive cut of whatever you might save, and trying to pull all the right data from the county's ancient GIS maps manually is a nightmare.
Has anyone fought this successfully without losing their mind or hiring an expensive lawyer?