How many “taxable” square feet does your government think you have in your home?

FOR SALE:   Beautiful 199 year old, 59,000 square foot Palladian Mansion

Tax Record                                                                                                                                             District of Columbia
Address: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.                                                                                                        Tax Map: 17HXRTHD78
Taxable square feet: 8000                                                                                                                      Basement SF: 20,000

If the White House was for sale there would be marketing advertising its’ size and there would be the local Governments’ record of its’ size.  The two measurements are not always the same.  If the White House pays a property tax, it is in the local Governments’ interest to know exactly how many taxable square feet are in that house.  Sometimes through haste, neglect, or error, homes are listed on government rolls at far less or more square footage than actually exist in the home.  With less square footage than actual either the government catches it and forces a seller payment on sale or it errantly passed on to another unsuspecting buyer.  With more square footage than actual on the tax rolls, the government doesn’t really care to catch it and may have a grandfather clause on rebate of over-payment.

Bureaucratic headaches happen.  Please call me to for a copy of your tax record or for a square foot comparison to similar models in your neighborhood.    Dennis Bell    703-928-4428    buysellbell@gmail.com