It’s Virginia. Virginia has a long history of door-to-door government snooping and meddling.
When I was a little kid in Virginia, I remember one year when the personal property tax assessors came to our neighborhood. The first few houses were inspected and the clipboard goons made a record of possessions (TVs, tables, estimate of clothing value, pots and pans, etc.) As this was going on, all kinds of stuff was going out the back doors to be absent when the inspectors came in with their search warrants and clipboards.
This was the event that made my parents leave Virginia. We had 2 TVs and Virginia wanted their taxes.
I don’t know if they still do this. It was 65 years ago.
In KY you are not required to let them inside your house during a tax assessment. The last time they assessed my neighborhood my father-in-law as alive and he noted their arrival, knew what they were doing measuring and taking notes. They rang his doorbell and identified themselves and said they were ready to come inside and conclude their tax assessment, that he had to allow them inside the house. He said if you can produce a warrant fine, but KY law, he cited KRS statue, says this is voluntary at this point so if you don’t have a warrant get the hell off my property and slammed the door in their shocked faces.