Think your property value is too high? You have until March 31 to appeal

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County spot owners who are still not happy pinch their spot valuations for nan 2025 taxation twelvemonth person different chance to situation them done nan Cuyahoga County Board of Revision.

Formal complaints must beryllium revenge pinch nan Board of Revision (BOR) – aliases postmarked – earlier midnight connected March 31. The committee will cull immoderate complaints base non-USPS postmarks received aft nan deadline, nan region warned successful a news release.

There are respective ways to file:

• Online done nan BOR’s website, https://bor.cuyahogacounty.us, utilizing a valid email address, which bypasses nan request for a notary
• Print and capable retired a difficult transcript of nan complaint form, which will require notarization earlier submission. This tin beryllium mailed aliases returned to nan agency successful person.
• Request a mailed shape by calling nan agency astatine 216-443-7195.
• Pick up a shape connected nan 2nd level of nan Cuyahoga County Administration Building. The BOR agency is unfastened 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday done Friday.

Once received, nan committee will scope retired to schedule hearings either successful person, virtually aliases by phone. At that point, owners will request to stitchery immoderate grounds supporting their claim, which tin beryllium submitted up to 7 business days earlier their hearing.

BOR Administrator Ron O’Leary antecedently told cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer that homeowners seeking a simplification successful worth request to beryllium prepared to reply 2 questions: could they waste their location for nan caller assessed worth -- aliases more? And if not, tin they beryllium it?

That impervious could see photos showing interior aliases structural issues not visible from nan curb, for illustration a leaky tile aliases flooded basement. It could besides see acquisition documents, caller appraisal reports, certified estimates from a contractor for repairs, photos, aliases caller building costs certified by nan builder. More ideas tin beryllium recovered connected nan BOR’s website.

“Providing grounds regarding your property’s valuation is an important portion of nan process,” nan website states.

Last taxation cycle, complete 20,000 residents submitted informal complaints aft nan sexennial appraisal sent values soaring an mean 32% higher crossed nan county. Nearly 70% of those residents received immoderate benignant of adjustment earlier taxation bills arrived. The mean simplification was $23,900, Board unit told cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer astatine nan time.

A fewer 1000 residents followed up pinch general complaints successful early 2025. It’s unclear really galore of them won reductions.

2026 taxation bills, covering nan first half of 2025, will travel owed Feb. 19.

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Kaitlin Durbin is simply a authorities newsman connected nan Public Interest and Advocacy squad for cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer. She covers each things Cuyahoga County, including council, nan executive and agencies that...