How does your local tax assessor determine your property value and tax? How does your insurance carrier determine your property value and insurance rate?

Jan Moyer - Thank you for your input! We are currently trying to conceptualize a plan. My husband is working on recreating our current floor plan but not the new plan yet. (He is one owner at a 3D graphics/animation studio) It seems like we need to decide on the number of bedrooms before he makes a plan though.

Virgil Carter Fine Art - I need to look into our home insurance.

I found that my local property tax rate is 1.84% . My county auditors website isn't great, so it isn't really clear how they calculate market value. Their Handbook defines market value as "The County Auditor's opinion of the property's potential selling price on the open market, between a willing seller and a willing buyer." I just reached out them to see how they determine their opinion.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention!

You don't need a plan in 3 d. You need a flat piece of paper, a big sturdy measuring tape and a sharp pencil, with a good eraser..........and a scale ruler with a 1/4 inch scale side in your view.

No bells and whistles, add actual dimensions boldly when you post, as is and proposed. Fancy schmancy won't change reality, and all that counts are inches.........logical flow, traffic and furniture considered.

No arch gives you 3 D.............at least not until flat on paper.Sky view? Avoid that too. Just another whistle with the bells lol

Jan Moyer - We won't be doing a 3D plan any time soon, if at all. He is working on a simple 2D floor plan, it should be done this weekend. It'll be much easier to make any changes/corrections and decrease errors with his program. Plus he will be able to replicate the file to adjust for the new plan as opposed to redrawing everything.

Your price to do this will move you out of that neighborhood. It’s not worth doing so much to a split. It’s still a split when you are done.