Local Property Appraisal Participation Assignment

Part 1: Research Local Property Appraisal Services
1. Conduct a web search to locate a property appraiser's office in your area.
- Does your property appraiser offer a web mapping site?
* No, the property appraiser does not offer a web mapping site.  In fact, every appraiser site I looked at in the Tri-State (Delmarva) area is very basic, they do not offer web mapping or selling prices or recent properties assessed.
* The website I chose is: http://fielsappraising.com/services.html

* They do not state how you obtain your data either.

2. Most property appraiser's websites offer a list of recent property sales by month.

- What is the selling price of this property?

*As I said above, none of the sites list selling price of any properties.

3. The selling price and assessed price will differ in most cases. 
- What is the assessed land value?
* total value is $20,000 with improvements
- Based on the land record data, is the assessed land value higher or lower than the last sale price?
* higher

Q4. Share additional information about this piece of land that you find interesting.  Many times, a link to the deed will be available providing more insight to the sale.

* There is no link to the deed.  However, this house is on a finger of a river, is highly elevated for this area and is an old property with only 3 owners.

Part II: Mappingn Assessment Values

Q1. Which accounts do you think need review based on land value and what you've learned about assessment?

* Looking at the map, other than the 4 corner pieces which are not developable, there are 6 properties that are of much lesser value than the surrounding properties.  They are: 090310105, 09031071, 090310320, 090310325, 090310260, 090310245.