Assessment Services
GUTS simplifies and streamlines assessments, with multiple analytical options and services to accommodate virtually any type of property. Let our team gather and manage the data to provide to your tax management vendor.
Assessment is complicated and pulling together and reviewing relevant data is time-consuming. With GUTS Assessment Services, you get reliable data services as well as trend reporting and expert consultation and analysis that helps you stay on top of values in an ever-changing market.
WHO'S IT FOR:
KEY FEATURES:
- New construction assessment and field review
- Neighborhood trending and re-stratification
- Development of 25% cyclical review process to meet statutes
- Defense of values for appeals process
- Assessment consultation for all types of property
- Assessment data entry and clean-up
- Assessor training for newly elected officials
Additional Product Details
- Land valuation review, including development of land base rate and applicable adjustments
- Income analysis, using industry-standard tools and data to develop a true tax value for income-producing properties
- 25% cyclical review (25% of all parcels), which includes drafting a plan in coordination with the county assessor and staff to establish the statutory-required allocation of parcels and their location and use for each year of review; includes creating a schedule and timeline of completion for each year
- Classification of TIF districts and abatements property
- Abatements for real and personal property
- Training and consulting for newly elected assessment officials
- Multiple regression analysis
- Income approach methodology
- Appeals tracking
- Digital photography
Assessment consulting services for:
- Real estate
- Personal property
- Mobile homes
- Rental properties
- Not-for-profit exemptions
- New subdivisions/annexations
- Parcel splits and combination processing
- Golf course value analysis (using statutory-mandated procedures)
Data cleanup services:
- Property tax cap allocation
- Developer discounts
- Property class clean up
- Missing addresses data for vacant and improved properties
- Missing CAMA neighborhood numbers
- Missing commercial data in property management system
- Common properties in subdivisions
- Deprecation values/effective age
- Central business district property condition review
- Obsolescence application and/or removal
- Audit of grade and design factors
- Audit of condition factors
- Certificate of occupancy audit
- Lot size conversion issues
- Construction not complete
- Homesteads
Testimonials
“THANKS FOR ANOTHER SMOOTH YEAR! GUTS has always been great to work with and we are lucky to have you taking care of our bill printing. Thanks for all your hard work!”
Rob Robertson
Carroll County, Kentucky
“Our county had previously had PVDManage and we switched to a competitor’s software. Just recently we have switched back to PVDNetⓇ. I love it. There are things that are different, but it is so easy to follow the path and make your corrections accordingly.
Also, the help you get is wonderful. I can’t say enough about the GUTS team. They have always been helpful, even when we were using the competitors’ software.”
Jane Johnson
“Thanks to the GUTS team for always being on top of things. I know you handle a lot of different counties and companies but you always make us feel like we are important to you whether we are the largest or the smallest. Thanks again for all your help.”
Jill Mahoney
Trimble County, Kentucky