[tummyman]

In my Moultonborough case, the prior home owner ....a builder, got a minor building permit...although he made way more improvements to the house. Vision just took the building permit value, added it to the prior building less depreciation value. They then took the total difference in selling price and laid it on the LAND. Because LAND is appraised by the towns "neighborhood" locations, all the properties in our neighborhood got hit. If they had made a better split for the building vs. land, most of us would have had no problems. Vision is sloppy. If you want to get real mad, look at what they appraise all those commercial buildings on Rt 25 for. Peanuts....those of us that have waterfront get view charges, but the commercial sites get no big surcharge for their prime locations. Guess I am lucky...my neighbors are really upset / furious and the abatement applications will be flying into town hall when the December tax bills arrive. We will be hiring an outside appraiser to give professional rebuttal to Vision. Will cost us some money, but enough is enough. We all tried very hard to get the Vision people to be realistic, but they turned a complete deaf ear to every one of us...no exceptions.