Experts recommend that when home loans are sold, property owners make sure their impound accounts are intact. This bill is an additional, not a substitute, tax bill. Owners with impound accounts should either pay their supplemental tax bills or, if they have impound accounts, contact their lenders and arrange for payment. They should not simply assume that the bank will pay. Property owners who receive tax bills that seem too high should pay, then petition the assessor's office for a correction, said Gil Parisi, special assistant to the Los Angeles County assessor.
Petitions are available at any of the county assessor's offices or online.
They should not be mailed with tax bills. If property owners lose the first appeal, they may file a second through the assessment appeal board between July 2 and Sept. 15. We don't want anyone to pay penalties. Provides copies of all building permits issued. Distributed by the Washington Post Writers Group.