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Class action lawsuit filed over Jackson County assessments

https://www.kctv5.com/2023/06/25/cla...y-assessments/

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A new class action lawsuit challenges the quality of Jackson County’s property assessment. It calls into question if some increases are even legal considering some notices came in the mail after the June 15 deadline, as required by state statutes.

The filing asks a judge to step in and offer injunctive relief. It also calls for a jury trial.

The lawsuit was filed by attorney and developer Ken McClain on behalf of Trevor and Amanda Tilton of Odessa and two businesses.

The lawsuit is critical of the methodology used by Jackson County to reach new values. It argues the newly-built assessment system fails to include sufficient information and there’s a lack of physical inspections.

It points out assessments should consider current market conditions. It argues that didn’t happen when it came to commercial property.

The lawsuit claims Jackson County uniformly increased the value of every non-vacant commercial property with an improvement by 25%. And vacant commercial properties had an across-the-board increase of roughly 50%.

KCTV5 has heard from numerous homeowners who are shocked by the large increases in their assessments. Some question if they’ll be able to keep their homes. They also question if they can realistically sell when property tax assessments increase so much in one fell swoop.

READ MORE: Jackson County property assessment workshops kick off
There has been a 30% average increase in Jackson County. The Assessor’s Office argues homeowners are seeing large increases because Jackson County real estate has not been assessed with Fair Market Valuations (FMV) for a long time and building costs have increased.

The lawsuit is filed against Jackson County Executive Frank White, Assessor Gail McCann Beatty and other members of the Board of Equalization.

KCTV5 reached out to Jackson County’s public information officer for comment but we have not heard back yet.

Politicans exempt from insane take hikes

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Legislation drawn to overturn insane tax hikes:

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Protest scheduled at Jackson County Courthouse:

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KC Town Hall scheduled July 15

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Mine went up 89 percent in one year.

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Originally Posted by gblowfish (Post 16993982)

Mine went up 89 percent in one year.

Most states or citites have a rule where the max increase is a few percent or something? ****ing highway robbery by the county.

Ken McClain mentioned in the article is a big time lawyer who owns most of the Independence Square. He's a gorilla and will crush them.

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Originally Posted by gblowfish (Post 16993982)

Mine went up 89 percent in one year.

LOL

I got 54 percent and appealed today.

**** this cash grab.

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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties (Post 16993992)

LOL

I got 54 percent and appealed today.

**** this cash grab.

Good luck. For most the adjusted value is still below true value so good chance the appeal can backfire and become even more.

I just did a bunch of improvements so I am not taking the chance on appeal.

And **** Frank White. Makes Q look like a genius.

I'm not sure there's a better guy to have suing the city for Jackson County homeowners.

McClain is a straight killer. He's the guy who sued the NFL and won (over concussions). Jackson County better get its shit together, and quickly.

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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties (Post 16993992)

LOL

I got 54 percent and appealed today.

**** this cash grab.

Yeah, same. House on the other side of the parkway (literally across the road) from us just sold in May for 110,000 less than the assessed value of our home, and the house at the end of that block sold for 140,000 less.

We were up 44 percent. Just nuts stuff.

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Originally Posted by gblowfish (Post 16993988)

Ken McClain mentioned in the article is a big time lawyer who owns most of the Independence Square. He's a gorilla and will crush them.

Sounds like a sharp real estate investor, no doubt!

Same thing happened in Taney County (Branson). One of my friends building took a 300% increase and it was built 3 years ago. They said it was "undervalued" the whole time.

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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties (Post 16993992)

LOL

I got 54 percent and appealed today.

**** this cash grab.

I'd appeal the shit out of that. No way a value can increase 54% that doesn't even have curbs.

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Originally Posted by Jewish TLO (Post 16994008)

I'd appeal the shit out of that. No way a value can increase 54% that doesn't even have curbs.

Ran all the way up from 40,000 to 62,000!

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Originally Posted by Jewish TLO (Post 16994008)

I'd appeal the shit out of that. No way a value can increase 54% that doesn't even have curbs.

Damn straight. Plus it was appraised two years ago for ****ing THOUSANDS of dollars less than they are saying.

**** these thieves.

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I attended the appeals workshop last night where they were expecting about 100 people. There were 1100 of us there. The place was packed to the rafters. I had one property that jumped from 1000 to 3000 in tax, after I had just appealed it 2 years ago, paid for an appraisal and won my appeal.

Another property jumped 700%! You read that right. I appealed and won that last time, as well. The county doesn't even bother to look at their previous lost appeals cases before trying the same thing again. And they obviously don't bother with doing an in-person evaluation of those properties.

Any increase of more than 14.9% requires that in-person assessment, but they don't seem to be bothering with that. I highly recommend attending one of the remaining meetings on this matter if you want to know how widespread and egregious this problem is.

File your informal appeal, and maybe attend the next legislative meeting this Monday afternoon, at the downtown County Courthouse, where many of us will be showing up in protest.

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Originally Posted by Pablo (Post 16994012)

Ran all the way up from 40,000 to 62,000!

126690

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Originally Posted by Hammock Parties (Post 16994014)

126690

I don't even think we have any values that low in Platte County.

South of the river is just disaster territory.