Great story. I wonder who is behind those letters. My guess is it’s someone who already unsuccessfully challenged their tax assessment and now wants their neighbors to share their pain. People are strange that way.

We now have a solution for this scenario on Zillow. If your public records are incorrect you don’t have to call out the assessor to get them changed on the site. Owners who claim their homes on Zillow.com can edit their home’s facts and those updates will be factored into the Zestimate value when it’s next recalculated.