I successfully appealed my assessment the last two reassessments.
The appeals process was a complete joke. First there was an informal interview conducted with a 21st Century flunkie, who usually consulted with an anonymous mass appraiser sitting in another room out-of-sight out-of-mind who usually refused to lower any of the newly assessed property values even when confronted with wildly lower private appraisals.
Next, at the second stage formal appeal, properties owners likewise found no relief from the board (comprised of the three sitting county commissioners) who also refused to accept the private appraisal data.
There were over 8,000 appeals, and such a backlog piled up that the commissioners missed the state mandated deadlines and set up a completely illegal series of auxiliary boards to try and get through the process. Hence, freedom Township's lawsuit.
Getting no satisfaction, most aggrieved property owners are now paying the $155 additional fee to file suit in court to challenge the new assessments, which is still playing put.