DOF inspection

Can anyone share their experience with a DOF inspection. Did it help or hurt? Can you tell the DOF you do not want an inspection?

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Augustiner | 4 years and 4 months ago

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Trying to understand the system is an uphill battle. The problem is that taxation of property in NYC is not fair, equal and transparent as it is required by law.
The basis of taxation is unclear. Property is not based on market value. It is also not based on purchase price. It’s somewhere in between or to the side. But the DOF only gives you the opportunity to contest market value, which is pointless because you are being taxed on some magic formula that uses market value as an initial number.
The goal of the DOF is that everyone pays about 3 times the amount they currently pay now. So if you are paying anywhere between 6 and 12,000 for a 3 family in Brooklyn you have no chance to lower it.
I am paying 20k for a 3 fam brownstone in bed stuy. I still have no idea why. There is no one who can answer, and I have been trying for 3 years now to get it changed – so far without success

Guest User | 4 years and 4 months ago

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It’s virtual due to Covid so I could ignore. If I ignore the request, the DOF assessment would go into effect so either way it’s not good.

Augustiner | 4 years and 4 months ago

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If you want no inspection, just don’t let them in

Guest User | 4 years and 4 months ago

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Thank you for your helpful response. I understand the relationship between effective market value and market value and know it’s affect my taxes one way or another. In my case it can’t really go up as they already reassessed and increased it without physical examination- they said so themselves. Commercial is a different story and yes plenty of law firms willing to help with that because there is a lot of money to be made while the rest of us suffer. I don’t think I can refuse inspection anyway and since it went up already they can’t increase it further for this year.

krobertson

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Assuming this is for residential and not commercial property. I wouldn’t risk a DoF inspection unless you’re trying to prove the market value of your property is significantly less than the effective market value on your annual property tax statement. Taxes are based on the effective market value so if you’re just trying to just change the market value on your taxes its not going to change your actual taxes paid.
From a story I once heard from one of my contractors, he had a client that insisted on trying to save $300/year on his property taxes and filed a challenge. Had DoF come do a inspection and the inspector disagreed with the condition/ usage / or classification of the property (I don’t remember which) and instead reassessed it at a higher value and the client ended up paying thousands of dollar more in property tax.

Lesson I took from the story is don’t request unnecessary inspections, especially if its a small potential reward. You never know what else the inspector might see / or decide upon that might screw you at the end. With that said, I definitely k now of buildings successfully challenging their commercial property taxes for storefronts, since I believe those are based on estimated rents. But those are usually filed by legal firms.

Guest User | 4 years and 4 months ago

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They told me to file a request for review. I did and submitted proof as to why I was overassessed and comparables. Now they want to inspect . However that’s not going to show issues behind walls or mechanical, code issues that need to be fixed. Also it won’t show past issues that have already been resolved but have delayed occupancy.

someonecalleddob | 4 years and 4 months ago

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Whats the reason for the inspection?