NH law currently permits towns to get an administrative warrant to come in to your home as part of the property assessment procedure. If you fight the warrant the town does not have to consider any appeal you make to your assessment. Rep. Andy Manuse has proposed HB...
by Frank M. Handibode, Hebron NH Hey, New Hampshire property owners, get a load of this. The Board of Taxation and Land Appeals (the BTLA) has ruled that if you appeal your assessments to them, it is perfectly okay for a town or assessor to use comparables against you...
by Ed Naile You mean Palm Beach Florida takes theft of municipal services seriously? Man, if you are a Windsor New Hampshire official you better steer clear of setting up shop down there when you retire. Here is the story from Florida Now look at the tiny blight on...
In this excellent opinion piece that appeared in Foster’s, former Senator George Lovejoy has asked the all-important question as to why homes are being assessed in many cases for more than they are worth on the current market. “And here comes the rub: In...
The Coalition of NH Taxpayers has two specific, long running projects which are examples of how bad a municipal democracy can be; the towns are Windsor and Atkinson — so different yet so similar. Windsor has no police department — Atkinson has an incompetent thug for...
by Ed Naile Wonder what is going on in the notorious town of Windsor? Remember that pilonidal municipal cyst created by surveyor mistakes when New Hampshire was created back in the 1700’s – they are still one big mistake after another. At this year’s Town Meeting the...