Last year, Hall County slapped owners’ crippled Lake Lanier properties with astronomical reassessments of their homes despite a 36-plus month supply of lake homes for sale, eight years of “pingpong” water levels and an Armageddon of a national economic recession. But in the “eyes” of the Hall tax assessor and hired gun, an out-of-county consultant, lake property had been “immune” to this devastating seismic shift. Lake Lanier property was the equivalent of the mother lode of an ever-increasing property value.