Anyone else got screwed by misrepresentation of property taxes?

One more thought… not sure if you have looked… You may have been given accurate info as to what the prior owner was paying. The issue may lie in what the prior “assessed value” was. If the prior assessed value was way low, then the prior owner would have been paying far less in taxes than the now updated assessed value comes to. Sometimes the assessors office misses updating assessments for years, then when the property changes hands, it gets updated. You may want to save yourself some legal fees and see what the prior assessed value was, and do the calculation ($$$ per 1,000 times assessed value) yourself. I don’t know if there is something as simple as an assessors office in Brooklyn or if its more complicated than that. Hope this helps and best of luck to you. Matt R www.nyc-hs.com