The 2016 assessment is a disaster. It should be voided.
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Scott Coplan
10 years ago
The 2016 Ryan assessment for the Scarsdale Village was highly flawed when compared to the thorough approach taken by Tyler Technologies. Our house valuation increased by 50.5% in 2 years, while the total village valuation remained constant over the same period. Furthermore, while reviewing similar size properties in the area, our house was valued considerably more. The valuation should be based on what we could sell our house for not some inflated figure. It is highly apparent that JF Ryan did not use a proven and effective valuation model that could be both verified and supported. Our town officials need to review the facts, admit to the residents that this valuation was not accurate and then determine a course of action to resolve and put peace back in the community!
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Elisabeth Pellerin
10 years ago
We are longtime residents of Scarsdale and are deeply disturbed by the result of the Jf Ryan 2016 reval.
The process is flawed and unfair in particular to owners of smaller homes. Our house has 1,509 sq. ft. and the Ryan reval added 16 percent to the Tyler valuation for no reason except for the use of an arbitrary and suspicious square root method amplified by other dubious lines such as a substantial penalty for central air. What's next? The assessment of our paved driveway?
In addition, the short period between receipt of the letter June 6 and grievance day June 17 did not provide enough time to respond (12 days!) given the need to understand a complex and very different valuation method while the lack of timely and clear footnotes from the village assessor's office hindered and delayed the much needed due diligence process.
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Chenggang Zhou
10 years ago
The 'market model' used by this re-evaluation is largely subjective and results in huge distortions of the market value of homes in Scarsdale. Anyone with some experience in either the housing market or statistical methods would not accept such a poor revaluation.
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Richard H Gast
10 years ago
The 2016 assessment is flawed and should be voided.
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Margaret and Gerry Hill
10 years ago
During the 2014 re-assessment, our home was visited twice by Tyler Tech (as we were selected by the village for a random 2nd verification of the assessment). In addition, we had a meeting with a rep. from Tyler one-on-one, to contest the square footage calculations of our home. After the meeting with Tyler, and the follow-up adjustments, we felt the 2014 assessment was fair. Now based on a Ryan "drive-by" our assessment has increased to a number that is larger than the original Tyler assessment. How can that be acceptable? We support the voiding of the Ryan Assessment.
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Maynard and Yasuko High
10 years ago
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The reval mistakenly added 1000 square feet of "finished basement" space to our basement, none of which is "finished". The reval increased our assessed value by 25% even though the house is unchanged from the previous walkthru evaluation.
Maynard and Yasuko High, 24 Stratton Road
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Allan and Mary Shapiro
10 years ago
the proposed reassessment is flawed. It contained numerous non-factual and erroneous assessments about our property in numerous categories.
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Jennifer Gross
10 years ago
Jennifer Gross, 50 Harvest Drive
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Alexander Paranyuk
10 years ago
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The assessed values is supposed to be as of July 2015. If the model is valid, why do we see a house sold for $3,300,000 in July 2015, apprised at $2,450,000 ? There are lots of examples like this at village's website (http://www.scarsdale.com/Portals/0/Assessor/2016%20REVAL.SalesFilefor2016Reval.pdf)
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Gary matzkin
10 years ago
Gary Matzkin
10 Griffen Ave
Scarsdale NY
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Anil Ferris
10 years ago
BTW I live in Scarsdale, note White Plains.
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Anil Ferris
10 years ago
I believe that this was an incorrectly done reval with an unfair and opaque process done by a company chosen without due process. I base this not only on my property tax increase, the second large increase in 2 years, but also on the observations of my friends and neighbors and also on the disastrous revals this company has produced for all the other towns they have worked with.. I definitely support the voiding of this reval and going back to the professional evaluation done just 2 years ago.
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Jason Zhang
10 years ago
My house's tentative AV increased by 81% compared to last year. In addition to the model risk, the year's valuation is highly depended on the building information. Because the assessor only conducted the exterior inspection, the valuation is of course questionable.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
how can property value jump 60% over a year? what kind of statistics model would quantify that is just beyond what I can understand. If they want to void what Tyler did a year ago, there should be more cost effective way to do it, rather than hiring another person to come to such random numbers.
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zhengyu huang
10 years ago
It is an unfair, opaque process. The results are really random and unfair based on my observation/data points. Would like to void this year's assessed value.
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Jing Lu
10 years ago
This is a lousy reval
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Meng Chen
10 years ago
The use of square root of a house size as a calculation factor is very unscientific. Please review your model.
146 Brite Ave
The 2016 assessment is a disaster. It should be voided.
The 2016 Ryan assessment for the Scarsdale Village was highly flawed when compared to the thorough approach taken by Tyler Technologies. Our house valuation increased by 50.5% in 2 years, while the total village valuation remained constant over the same period. Furthermore, while reviewing similar size properties in the area, our house was valued considerably more. The valuation should be based on what we could sell our house for not some inflated figure. It is highly apparent that JF Ryan did not use a proven and effective valuation model that could be both verified and supported. Our town officials need to review the facts, admit to the residents that this valuation was not accurate and then determine a course of action to resolve and put peace back in the community!
We are longtime residents of Scarsdale and are deeply disturbed by the result of the Jf Ryan 2016 reval. The process is flawed and unfair in particular to owners of smaller homes. Our house has 1,509 sq. ft. and the Ryan reval added 16 percent to the Tyler valuation for no reason except for the use of an arbitrary and suspicious square root method amplified by other dubious lines such as a substantial penalty for central air. What's next? The assessment of our paved driveway? In addition, the short period between receipt of the letter June 6 and grievance day June 17 did not provide enough time to respond (12 days!) given the need to understand a complex and very different valuation method while the lack of timely and clear footnotes from the village assessor's office hindered and delayed the much needed due diligence process.
The 'market model' used by this re-evaluation is largely subjective and results in huge distortions of the market value of homes in Scarsdale. Anyone with some experience in either the housing market or statistical methods would not accept such a poor revaluation.
The 2016 assessment is flawed and should be voided.
During the 2014 re-assessment, our home was visited twice by Tyler Tech (as we were selected by the village for a random 2nd verification of the assessment). In addition, we had a meeting with a rep. from Tyler one-on-one, to contest the square footage calculations of our home. After the meeting with Tyler, and the follow-up adjustments, we felt the 2014 assessment was fair. Now based on a Ryan "drive-by" our assessment has increased to a number that is larger than the original Tyler assessment. How can that be acceptable? We support the voiding of the Ryan Assessment.
The reval mistakenly added 1000 square feet of "finished basement" space to our basement, none of which is "finished". The reval increased our assessed value by 25% even though the house is unchanged from the previous walkthru evaluation. Maynard and Yasuko High, 24 Stratton Road
the proposed reassessment is flawed. It contained numerous non-factual and erroneous assessments about our property in numerous categories.
Jennifer Gross, 50 Harvest Drive
The assessed values is supposed to be as of July 2015. If the model is valid, why do we see a house sold for $3,300,000 in July 2015, apprised at $2,450,000 ? There are lots of examples like this at village's website (http://www.scarsdale.com/Portals/0/Assessor/2016%20REVAL.SalesFilefor2016Reval.pdf)
Gary Matzkin 10 Griffen Ave Scarsdale NY
BTW I live in Scarsdale, note White Plains.
I believe that this was an incorrectly done reval with an unfair and opaque process done by a company chosen without due process. I base this not only on my property tax increase, the second large increase in 2 years, but also on the observations of my friends and neighbors and also on the disastrous revals this company has produced for all the other towns they have worked with.. I definitely support the voiding of this reval and going back to the professional evaluation done just 2 years ago.
My house's tentative AV increased by 81% compared to last year. In addition to the model risk, the year's valuation is highly depended on the building information. Because the assessor only conducted the exterior inspection, the valuation is of course questionable.
how can property value jump 60% over a year? what kind of statistics model would quantify that is just beyond what I can understand. If they want to void what Tyler did a year ago, there should be more cost effective way to do it, rather than hiring another person to come to such random numbers.
It is an unfair, opaque process. The results are really random and unfair based on my observation/data points. Would like to void this year's assessed value.
This is a lousy reval
The use of square root of a house size as a calculation factor is very unscientific. Please review your model. 146 Brite Ave
Yong Yue 70 Brambach Rd
Taxes are too high