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Created: May 10, 2021 06:42 PM
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) The sticker shock comes in the mail when people see what their town thinks their house is worth.
We are coming out of the dark days of COVID and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and yet thousands of homeowners in five towns in Monroe County are getting told their assessment is up tens of thousands of dollars. And the number of reassessments in cities and towns statewide more than triples the average over the last six years.
It just doesn t make sense to them. Rhonda and her friend, Marla Volger, commiserated on the size of their re-assessments. Rhonda s is $21,000.