Please pardon me for my naivete but it seems to me you got your taxable value, your estimated value, your fair market value, and then your appraised value, the latter of which is what somebody might actually pay you for your property, right? It can get so confusing. I've been told too that there's really no such thing as an 'independent' appraisal as they can reflect whatever it is the person paying for the appraisal requests it to be i.e. shoot low, I'm getting a divorce, or aim high I want a big-buck home equity loan. I wonder if there's any sort of accurate measure as to the valuation of any property without it being attached to a million or two scenarios, development or otherwise. I mean if there were, then the market could suddenly change and ultimately, it would all be meaningless anyway, right? The whole process seems artificially inflated in a lot of ways. I could darn near sell my house today for nearly double what I paid just over a year ago because of the "market" but I really haven't done squat in the line of major improvements, other then erecting a wooden fence in an attempt to corral my schnauzers. WHAT'S IT ALL MEAN?????? JHarmon Cleveland
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