{"id":516,"date":"2009-10-11T17:19:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T00:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/?p=516"},"modified":"2009-10-11T17:19:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T00:19:20","slug":"timing-and-tax-assessments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/archive\/2009\/10\/11\/timing-and-tax-assessments\/","title":{"rendered":"Timing and tax assessments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got my property tax assessment card in the mail, and wow, what fortunate timing: my house was valued at <em>zero dollars<\/em>, and will remain so for a couple of years. It turns out King County does its annual reassessments based on the value of your house\/land as of July 31st.  July 31st also happened to fall in the two week window where the old house was gone and the new house framing hadn&#8217;t been erected yet.  If I had deconstructed a week or two later, or even a week or two earlier, my tax bill would have been quite a bit higher.<\/p>\n<p>So, the lesson of this blog post is: if you&#8217;re building a new house, find out when your taxing authority resets property values and try to plan around it if you can.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;ve added some <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.me.com\/mikeindustries#100069&#038;bgcolor=black&#038;view=grid\" target=\"_blank\">pictures of the ongoing HVAC, plumbing, and electrical rough-in<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.ahousebythepark.com\/\">photo gallery section<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got my property tax assessment card in the mail, and wow, what fortunate timing: my house was valued at zero dollars, and will remain so for a couple of years. It turns out King County does its annual reassessments based on the value of your house\/land as of July 31st. July 31st also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahousebythepark.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}