CLEVELAND, Ohio — Maybe it hit you when you opened the envelope and saw the new number — your home, suddenly worth six figures more. Even if you have no plans to sell, the county says that’s what it’s worth on the open market. And with it, your tax bill surged, too.
That was the reality for Lakewood homeowner Beth Blackmarr, whose modest home was reassessed overnight at $107,000 more.
“We got clobbered,” she recently told cleveland.com. It’s a sentiment echoed, no doubt, across kitchen tables throughout the state, where taxes have skyrocketed with the most recent assessment of property values. In Cuyahoga County, that increase was estimated at 32% after last year’s reappraisal…