Are you serious?!!! I'm shocked. Did your friend see "counter tops" noted on that piece of paper,or was it verbal? If it was verbal then it could be one of their intimidation tactics.
Ok, find out if the assessor has a handbook on what they assess. FOIL if need be.
Yes, for real. I’ve been on the phone with her for the past hour going over assessments. I called her to find out exactly where she found out about the counter tops and it was on the CAD’s web site. Of course, they’ve since changed their site because there was waaaay too much private info that was being put out on a public site. Heck, at one time they had sketches of interiors.