[WSBARP] Tax Assessor failed to identify improvement

[Tom J. Westbrook]

Hi Marcus,

 

Haven’t run into this one exactly, but similar. First, I would check with
your title company to see if they think it will be a problem in closing.
Do you think the place was or needs to be permitted? Obviously the seller
will need to do the form 17 disclosure statement and disclose these issue.
But, if it can be closed without implications and it has been disclosed
maybe you can do it. For sure don’t sell with warranties. I don’t know if
the County is precluded from going back on taxes they failed to assess.
Would like to know if you find out the answer.

 

Sincerely,

 

Tom

 

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Subject: [WSBARP] Tax Assessor failed to identify improvement

 

I have a situation that I have not run into before.  Clients have a parcel
with a small house on it.  House has been on the parcel for decades, but
the county assessor identifies the property as unimproved and has been
taxing it unimproved.  Clients are now in the process of putting up the
property for sale, and realtor is concerned with marketability of the
property in light of this issue.  Anyone run into a situation like this
before?  I thought about bringing this to the attention of the county and
getting it corrected but I am a little wary of doing so.  My initial
thought is that the county assessor is foreclosed from going back and
reassessing the property and collecting back taxes on the improvement.
Anyone able to point me to something that confirms or disproves my
thought?

 

Thank you,

 

Marcus J. Fry

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