If you filed your own appeal to the Board of Assessment and are dissatisfied with the Board of Assessment decision you may retain us either to appeal the Assessment Board decision, or to represent you in a Court appeal you already filed. For this situation, please complete our Power of Attorney form and our Representation and Fee Agreement for Court Appeals and fax or mail these forms to us with the Board of Assessment decision which is being appealed. If you already filed your own appeal, also please fax or mail a copy of the Court appeal you filed.
If we are being retained to file the Court appeal papers, you must also pay in advance the $89 Court Clerk filing fee and a $150 attorney fee for preparing, filing and serving the Court appeal papers. Payment should be mailed or delivered so that it is received before the filing deadline of 30 days from the Board of Assessment decision.
Our fee structure after the Court appeal is filed is 50% of the tax savings for the years decided by the Court appeal. Follow up information, described below, should be gathered by you to help us prepare for the hearing.
To provide information to prepare for a hearing, please click on the forms listed below. Some forms may be printed and completed or you may type information in fields and then print. To go to County Assessment data screens for your property, click the link to the Allegheny County Assessment Website, enter your "Block/Lot number", click to the screens we are requesting, print and make corrections to any inaccuracies.
Completed forms, other papers and documents, and any County Assessment Website pages with corrections, may be sent by fax to 412-391-1962 or by mail to John M. Silvestri, Esq., 1000 N. Negley Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206. Photos which are digital may be e-mailed, analog photos must be mailed.
| Property Type | |
| All Property Types, including vacant land - Please print and complete or open, type in information and print these forms. Photos of deterioration, functional problems and conditions external to your property which negatively impact value should be taken and submitted. Estimates to repair deterioration or a letter from you giving your estimate of repairs based on your conversations with contractors and suppliers is necessary to obtain discounts from a normsl value for deterioration. Also, the forms listed below, specific to your property type, should be printed and completed or opened, filled in and printed. | Property Features Questionnaire form
Property Transaction Questionnaire form Allegheny County Assessment Website please print the screen for "OWNER GENERAL INFORMATION", correct errors, especially as to "lot area" to print and mail |
| Owner Occupied Residential - if the square feet of "Finished Living Area" is different than reported on the County "RESIDENTIAL BUILDING CHARACTERISTICS" screen, a diagram and calculation should be prepared by you and submitted with other materials. | Allegheny County Assessment Website please print the screen for "RESIDENTIAL BUILDING CHARACTERISCS". The most important data to correct is "Finished Living Area" - measurements are based upon outside dimensions. "Finished Living Area" includes garage space and unfinished basement areas, but not areas above floors which have cathedral ceilings or attic type areas which are unheated or have no flooring or walls. |
| Residential Income Property |
For a base year 2002 appeal, provide either Schedule E for 2001 and 2002 or operating statements for 2001 and 2002.
For a current year appeal, provide either Schedule E for this year and last year or operating statements for this year and last year. |
| Non-Residential Income Property |
For a base year 2002 appeal, provide either Schedule E for 2001 and 2002 or operating statements for 2001 and 2002.
For a current year appeal, provide either Schedule E for this year and last year or operating statements for this year and last year. |
You may contact me or provide me with your comments by E-mail at staff.john.silvestri@usa.net,
by phone at 412-391-0958, or
by mail at 1000 N. Negley Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15206-1528
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