Nassau county tax grievance - COBRA CONSULTING GROUP

1. Cobra Consulting Group,LLC QFS Needs Assessment:

2. ABOUT US • Cobra Consulting Group is a property tax grievance specialist. Cobra files your property tax assessment challenge, which is called a grievance. The grievance is to have your property assessment reduced. If your assessed value is reduced, you will pay less in taxes because your taxes are based on your assessed value multiplied by the tax rate, whether it’s the county, town or school tax rate. Since taxes are going up, you will pay more, unless you reduce your assessment. • Nassau and Suffolk homeowners can file a grievance once a year, which is your right to challenge the assessment that is set on your home. The assessed value affects your property taxes and reducing your assessed saves you money. If you do not challenge, you will be paying for Nassau and/or Suffolk county and town and school tax increases, every year. When others successfully challenge, those who do not challenge pay even more in taxes.

3. WHO WE ARE • You should not pay more than your fair share of property taxes. Taxes are going up at all levels. Make sure you are fairly assessed by challenging your assessment. There is no cost to challenge. You are protecting your rights and making sure that you do not overpay your taxes. When your neighbors challenge and win a reduction, you pay more. Protect yourself and file a grievance. • There is no risk. Cobra does all the work. There is no court appearance. There is no home inspection. A challenge is filed with the Assessment Review Commission. Any settlement offer is communicated to the client. Cobra negotiates and leads the process for you. If the challenge to the Assessment Review Commission is not successful or the offers are not satisfactory, Cobra will file a small claims assessment review, the cost of which is only $30.

4. OUR SERVICES • Property tax assessment • There is no risk. Cobra does all the work. There is no court appearance. There is no home inspection. A challenge is filed with the Assessment Review Commission. Any settlement offer is communicated to the client. Cobra negotiates and leads the process for you. If the challenge to the Assessment Review Commission is not successful or the offers are not satisfactory, Cobra will file a small claims assessment review, the cost of which is only $30.

5. OUR SERVICES • Nassau and Suffolk grievance • Nassau and Suffolk homeowners can file a grievance once a year, which is your right to challenge the assessment that is set on your home. The assessment value affects your property taxes and reducing your assessment saves you money. If you do not challenge, you will be paying for Nassau and/or Suffolk county and town and school tax increases, every year. When others successfully challenge, those who do not challenge pay even more in taxes.

6. Nassau Property Tax Reduction • In Nassau, you file with the Assessment Review Commission and the deadline is March 1, 2018! • In Suffolk, residents file with the town in which they reside and the deadline is May 15, 2018! Nassau county property tax Nassau county tax grievance Long island tax reduction Property tax reduction Nassau

7. My Nassau Property • With over 25 years of real estate experience, Cobra works with real estate owners and developers on strategies for successful real property transactions, including, but not limited to, development, redevelopment, management, purchases, sales, and leases. • Cobra’s consultants are experts in real estate transactions and can advise its clients on how best to negotiate purchases, sales, leases, mortgages, workouts, short sales and many other transactions. Cobra’s services include assistance securing funding, attracting partners, and assembling a legal, financial, and accounting team necessary to implement and complete the transaction. Cobra’s concierge consulting services put the right team together to work for its clients.

8. Nassau County Property Tax • Cobra also provides unmatched consulting services with respect to zoning, smart growth, mixed use development and redevelopment of environmentally challenged properties such as brownfields, industrial, waste disposal and superfund sites, and other listed and non-listed contaminated sites, including sites with toxic and petroleum polluted soil and groundwater. At just a fraction of the cost of assembling a team of legal, engineering, zoning and real estate experts, Cobra conducts the due diligence, evaluates the remedial and construction costs, secures the federal and state grants, and other investment incentives necessary for a successful investment opportunity. In addition, Cobra designs, plans, budgets and implements the construction, maintenance and operation of the real estate project.

9. Nassau County Tax Grievance • Cobra has created a unique model for professional consulting services. Cobra’s wide range of services includes corporate, commercial, intellectual property, real estate, land use and environmental consulting. Cobra’s model is to provide consulting on a concierge basis so that clients may have their outside business requirements efficiently and effectively met without having to retain multiple outside service providers in an expensive and inefficient manner. Cobra does not provide legal services; instead, Cobra’s model is to provide expert services that are not legal in nature so that its clients do not need to hire outside counsel at exorbitant attorney rates for work that does not require an attorney’s services. Where services of an attorney is required, Cobra refers its clients to counsel that have been fully vetted and who will provide expert legal services at competitive rates consistent with the Cobra model.

10. Long island tax reduction • Cobra provides consulting services at far more reasonable rates accomplishing most tasks that do not require an attorney. Business strategies, incorporations, workouts, etc., which are all part of Cobra’s services and expertise, do not require an attorney, and therefore, we offer efficiencies and cost savings for clients. Cobra provides a full range of environmental services and engineering and intellectual property consulting, portfolio management, licensing and evaluation and most forms of protection. • Similarly, Cobra’s services many real estate matters and business consulting and strategy. Where legal services are required, such as for litigation, patent prosecution, securities matters, or real estate transactions, Cobra refers its clients to vetted legal counsel which will effectively and efficiently provide such legal services.

11. Property tax reduction Nassau • Nassau County assesses property at a percentage of full market value. In recent years that percentage has varied from .25% to .17%, depending on whether a challenge was filed. In recent years, as much as 90% of the challenges have been successful. Therefore, it is to your advantage to challenge your assessment. Once again, you do this by challenging the full equalized market value represented by the total assessment and if that exceeds the actual market value, the property is over-assessed. For residential properties, an evaluation of comparable sales must be prepared and then submitted in support of your challenge.

12. Property tax reduction Nassau • In Nassau County, when you timely file your challenge by March, ARC will typically advise you of the result and/or seek a conference to discuss a settlement before the end of the year, but certainly no later than March of the following year. If a reduction is obtained, the reduction is reflected in the final tax role set for April 1st of the following year. As such, the reduced assessment will be reflected on your tax bills. No tax refund is necessary because you will not have over-paid. On the other hand, if the ARC decision is appealed through a SCAR proceeding, and that decision is not made before the role is finalized, a refund could be owed to the homeowner. In recent years, ARC has made most decisions prior to the tax role being finalized.

13. CONTACT US • Nassau and Suffolk Property Tax Reduction Specialist • Call Us: 516-330-9930 • 917-929-9492