To mobile owners

From John N. to all mobile owners

I have to pass on the bad news. Tim Wilkens the tax agent I was working with has not returned any calls or emails for the last week. His office says she has given him the messages so I guess he does not want to represent the park. I have not been able to find another tax agent in the hidalgo county area that will answer the phone or return messages. So unless someone else can find someone, and we are running out of time, I guess we are on our own.

Writing letters to the Hidalgo Appraisal District will probably not do any good unless there is incorrect data on your property such as age, size, etc. Remember they are using some new data base as to the market value of our Mobile home. They created the data base. They are trying to provide an appraised value high enough to provide the taxes each entity is trying to reach.

If you want to protest the appraised value file a formal protest using form 50-152. One should have been included in your letter of appraised value. This protest will go to the Appraisal Review Board. This is a independent Board appointed to review the value of you property.

Provide data in step 4 of form 50-152 based on facts as much as possible. From the data I have been able to put together all the Mobiles that have sold or are currently for sale in the park have sold/priced above the 2013 appraisal value for the property. I will provide the data below without addresses as some of you have no problem with everyone knowing the price you paid or sold for, however some prefer the information be private.

year	size	2014 value	Year Sold	sold	2013 value	Over/Under 2013	Percent Change
1979	14x52	15057	14	10000	9035	965	10.68
1980	14x60	15972	0	15000	9456	5544	58.63
1981	14x50	17171	0	18000	9668	8332	86.18
1983	14x44	14954	0	12500	14954	-2454	-16.41
1983	14x66	21927	9	17500	12395	5105	41.19
1983	14x66	21973	14	15000	11621	3379	29.08
1984	14x56	14370	0	13000	9065	3935	43.41
1984	14x56	14353	0	12500	8796	3704	42.11
1984	14x48	19862	12	12000	12654	-654	-5.17
1984	14x56	14353	13	12500	8796	3704	42.11
1984	14x56	14370	14	10000	9065	935	10.31
1984	14x60	18002	14	12500	11383	1117	9.81
1990	14x60	22709	14	17500	14606	2894	19.81
1993	16x66	32334	9	21000	21398	-398	-1.86
1991	14x64	22971	14	15900	15358	542	3.53
1992	16x60	28223	12	22000	14242	7758	54.47
1998	16x52	39239	12	40000	22938	17062	74.38
1999	14x76	47748	14	41000	28117	12883	45.82
2002	16x66	40058	14	31500	29821	1679	5.63

I hope the is readable.

John Norris

jdnorris811@att.net
817-282-2472