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Lake dwellers should brace for higher property values
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Tom and Betty Vivelo added a garage since buying their Nacoochee Trail home in 1997. The vegetable garden is Betty Vivelo’s project; the concrete blocks are for Tom Vivelo’s landscaping project behind the garage. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Lake Lanier property owners can start bracing now for sticker shock when assessment notices are mailed May 16. “Some of the increases that we are making are not going to be offset by any kind of (tax) rate decrease,” Chief Appraiser Steve Watson said. “In some cases, they may, but I’d say that would be the exception, not the rule.”Hall County’s 2014 tax digest is still a work in progress.