Apply proven effective strategies when handling an assessment appeal, a classification appeal, a tax foreclosure challenge, or any other real property tax matter. With this award-winning* book, you will:

• Persuade the local assessor and board of review with the best evidence
• Avoid triggering an uncapping of a property's taxable value
• Structure transactions to avoid or minimize transfer taxes
• Protect your client's interests in real property subject to a lien
• Defend a tax lien foreclosure

*Winner of an Association of Continuing Legal Education Administrators Best Award for Outstanding Achievement in Publications.

Highlights of the latest update include:

• Discussion of a Michigan Supreme Court case on the principal residence tax exemption
• Expanded discussion of the holding in Rafaeli, LLC v Oakland Cty, 505 Mich 429, 952 NW2d 434 (2020)
• Statutory amendments concerning principal residence exemption claims and appeals and the presumptive true cash value of transferred nonprofit housing
• Court of Appeals decisions on the principal residence exemption, redeeming property, and industrial processing
• A new section discussing tax foreclosure issues for mobile homes