Why would a home not show up on the tax assessor's Property Tax Assessment Information site?

Question

Other homes in the neighborhood (including the next door neighbor to the house we are looking at purchasing) show up on the site. It is a very well developed and reliable site. Are there any reasons why this home would not be listed?

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Answer 1

you may be in error in the belief that this home is a separate property. If there are multiple houses on one property, only the one property would be listed and you might miss the detail about multiple houses.

Try looking for a map of the neighborhood on the assessor's website. [Mine has these.] Property lines and parcel numbers are overlaid on the maps.


another potential is that the 'missing' home was actually there first and the subdivision built around it. This would make all the other houses have consecutive parcel numbers, but the 'missing' house would have a completely different parcel number as the remant of the original parcel created 137 years ago. [my hs girl friend's house was this way -- the neighborhood was literally built on her family's old farm -- she lived in the 'new' house the family built in 1955 and the old farm house was torn down when the neighborhood was built.]


i suppose there are also less savory possibilities involving government corruption, or secrecy, etc. these seem pretty remote -- it is much easier to hide ownership through front corporations.


GL

Answer 2

Try putting the owners name in the search criteria. Sometimes, especially with corner lots (if that even applicable) the address could be offically on neighboring street, or you could try viewing by subdivision (plat maps). This way you could visually see the lot in question, and go from there. One last option is that maybe both houses are platted on the same deed, post office would a separate address but assesors office might only show 1 address. In any event, like the other answers, its there somewhere because the county will want to get the real estate taxes on it for sure. Hope this helps!

Answer 3

The most probably reason, in my opinion, is that it is in there somewhere but the information on the site has the address slightly wrong or something stupid. In other words its probalby in there somewhere but you may not be able to easily find it with a search.

I highly doubt the tax assessor has missed the property and isn't receiving taxes for it - this is very, very unlikely.

Answer 4

Records of properties annexed before a certain date may not be part of the online database.

Best wishes,

pup
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