A Question of Value or a Question of Error? Getting the Answer from the Maricopa County Assessor’s Office:

Getting the Answer from the Maricopa County Assessor’s Office:

After being on hold for about twenty-five minutes with the Maricopa County Assessor’s office, I finally got the answer to my question about my own Limited Property Value: and guess what? I was wrong!

I should have dug a little bit deeper in my research, but I partly blame iMAPP, a third party provider to the Arizona Multiple Listing Service, for throwing me for a loop.

Using iMAPP’s Tax Report for my own parcel, I based my assumptions on the LPV they provided for my calculations about the assessed value of my own home. Granted that “the LPV cannot ever get smaller” was a hint in and of itself. However, I should have checked the horses mouth (the original data source).

Now I feel a little stupid, but that will pass. Making mistakes is an inevitable part of blogging and even though I try real hard to avoid mistakes, they happen. On the other hand, making mistakes also has some benefits. How else would I have found out that iMAPP is not perfect?

© iMapp, Inc, 2008 | Information is believed accurate but not guaranteed. Buyer to verify all information

A Question of Value or a Question of Error: at the end of the day ends up being a user error aided by incorrect data provided by a third party provider.

Yes, maintaining the public trust is not only difficult when market conditions are changing, but it gets a little tougher when a data vendor throws in a little wrench.

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