Last year, her double-wide Tahoe received new siding, and its drab brown shutters were painted a bright teal green. The home got new windows two years ago and a new roof three years ago.
Out front is a rock garden with tasteful bonsai-like plantings.
He bounced quite high. Pewitt isn't alone with her sticker shock. Others living at the Mobile Country Club, a park catering to seniors in south Everett, also were stunned by revaluations that tripled and in at least one case almost quintupled their homes' taxable value. Blame the market, says Snohomish County Assessor Gail Rauch. State law requires her office to assess property at market value, and home prices have shot up in the four years since the Everett and Mukilteo areas were last assessed, she said.