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Originally Posted by ElleGee
The lot with our house gets something called a Homestead Exemption, which helps with the taxes.. The second lot we get screwed on.. $3000 a year on the second lot and 15hundred on the house lot.. If we didn't qualify we would have to pay twice that
We have to hire a city surveyor to merge our 2 lots b/c half our sunroom is on the second lot... However that's an expense on itself
So either way we're getting skreeeewd
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Have you tried writing a letter to the Tax Appraiser's office on your own? I did this for one of my cousin's (he also has 2 adjoining lots, his house is on one & his garden on another). They approved it as being 1 lot, so he gets his homestead exemption on both. If you have your original survey from when you bought the house (& the paperwork from when you added the sunroom, if you didn't buy it that way), include it with your letter.
Good luck.