What are you doing right now?

[Warp Daddy]

GO for the whole damn banana - Blondes have MORE Phun ---------------------- The Queen being blonde made me say that

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

just ate some sushi..catching up on the intermanet..

 

[severine]

Root - There are far worse backgrounds than my cool shower curtain. You know you love it!

GO for the whole damn banana - Blondes have MORE Phun ---------------------- The Queen being blonde made me say that

:lol: Not so sure it would look right on me but it is tempting. I would need somebody who knows what they're doing to do that, though; too much bleaching for me to attempt on my own.

Right now I'm being a bum. I ran a lot of errands today and I'm tired.

 

[RootDKJ]

Root - There are far worse backgrounds than my cool shower curtain. You know you love it!

Heck yeah! I had one in my 1st apartment :beer:

 

[drjeff]

Sitting on the couch, rehydrating after some golf and a run today, watching the season premier of Weeds with my wife

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

up early..major thunderstorms..fell asleep at 10PM last night so uber well rested!!!! In charge of the office this morning.

 

[dmc]

Didn't come out quite as planned.... Should have let it sit longer. Oh well. It's just hair. I can do it again.

Brian's reaction was priceless. What the hell is wrong with you? :roll:

thats awesome!!!! i look at you in a whole new funky light.... well done...

 

[dmc]

3 weeks of crazy parties and concerts... done...
in Omaha NE.... watching a train go by...

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

3 weeks of crazy parties and concerts... done...
in Omaha NE.... watching a train go by...

did you visit any of the famous steak restaurants?? Work today is awesome.. 25 minutes in and the phones have only rung once..

 

[drjeff]

Right now I'm wishing I had stayed in bed this AM. WAY too dreary outside and WAY too crazy at the office

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

caught up on all the unread threads on here...now I am actually going to do some work..

 

[Warp Daddy]

They raised our property assessment yesterday by 23 % so headed down to enlighten" the man" this am armed with all kinds of data . Apparantly REAL WORLD data seems to escape our assessors office - property values in this zip code have declined between 18.4 - 19.8 % during the past yr according to 2 internet data sources i've consulted and sales are down .

This event seems to take place every 5 yrs like it or not -- the process is almost comparable to a Circus of the Absurd

 

[severine]

Depends on when they did their market evaluation, Warp. I used to work in the Assessor's Office... when we would do a revaluation (and I mean the company hired to do the legwork), they would look at market sales 2 years prior, then spend an entire year gathering data and revaluing. So when the values were frozen on Oct 1st for the next grand list, it represented trends for the 2-3 years prior, not that exact date (and you usually don't hear about that value until 4-6 months later).

Just saying.... It's every 5 years here as well. And like it or not, if they don't change your values, they'll just raise your mil rate to get the money they need. Cities always get their money, one way or another. (Mil rate is a calculation of the total money needed to run the city divided by the assessments... The reason for revaluations is to ensure equitable distribution of the tax burden.)

 

[Warp Daddy]

Depends on when they did their market evaluation, Warp. I used to work in the Assessor's Office... when we would do a revaluation (and I mean the company hired to do the legwork), they would look at market sales 2 years prior, then spend an entire year gathering data and revaluing. So when the values were frozen on Oct 1st for the next grand list, it represented trends for the 2-3 years prior, not that exact date (and you usually don't hear about that value until 4-6 months later).

Just saying.... It's every 5 years here as well. And like it or not, if they don't change your values, they'll just raise your mil rate to get the money they need. Cities always get their money, one way or another. (Mil rate is a calculation of the total money needed to run the city divided by the assessments... The reason for revaluations is to ensure equitable distribution of the tax burden.)

Thanks Carrie i KNEW that you'd chime in with some wisdom based on YOUR experience .

BTW--Yeah i really do understand the process. I've been thru the Board of Appeals and actually have come out fairly well several times in the past . Is just a PITA and in the past cost me the better part of a days' income to go thru the dance. Now being retired it's not that cumbersome but still a PITA

Just back from my" session" and whittled the increase down from 23 % to 9 % so the nonsense is done for awhile and no BOA will be necessary

 

[severine]

Glad it was fairly painless! I actually was on track to become a Certified Connecticut Municipal Assessor, but decided it wasn't the life for me. It wasn't that I couldn't do the work, because I was doing it and started the classes (scored the highest in the class, too). It's more that I was already burning out as a secretary in that office and didn't want to have to deal with the bigger fish with bigger problems. Maybe a smaller town wouldn't have been that bad, but I don't feel that I'm destined for management.

Right now, I'm feeding the kids lunch. PB&J for them and I'm having leftover pasta. Finished the backlog of dishes and I need to get to the laundry before I settle down for some quality time with the kids.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Thanks Carrie i KNEW that you'd chime in with some wisdom based on YOUR experience .

BTW--Yeah i really do understand the process. I've been thru the Board of Appeals and actually have come out fairly well several times in the past . Is just a PITA and in the past cost me the better part of a days' income to go thru the dance. Now being retired it's not that cumbersome but still a PITA

Just back from my" session" and whittled the increase down from 23 % to 9 % so the nonsense is done for awhile and no BOA will be necessary

Wow..I bet you saved over $1,000 per year just presenting your side of the story..good work..

 

[Warp Daddy]

Wow..I bet you saved over $1,000 per year just presenting your side of the story..good work..

Yeah Steeze it was a pretty hefty number ! Gotta save some COIN for skiing ya know _LMAO

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Yeah Steeze it was a pretty hefty number ! Gotta save some COIN for skiing ya know _LMAO

You need to get out west sometime..

 

[Warp Daddy]

You need to get out west sometime..

Yeah i do !

We've got friends with a condo at Copper --- just never seem to get there . This past season the weather sucked the week we were thinking of going to Copper , while skiing here in was fine

 

[RootDKJ]

Busy morning, had to meet with some contractors to get them to understand the scope of work for a job they are submitting a proposal on. 2 hours of back-to-back conference calls. Just sitting down to eat lunch and catch up on AZ