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Cuyahoga County loves 1/1/75 #9

Closed walinchus closed 5 years ago

walinchus commented 5 years ago

For some reason, a lot of data seems to have the tag date of 1/1/75. First of all, that's a holiday, second, I doubt so many places were all sold on that day. So We need to find out why that is the default.

sam-raudins commented 5 years ago

I may be able to provide some insight here. My understanding from my field trip to the fiscal office is that it is a dummy date. When the office combined multiple Mainframe systems into one Windows system, some of the dates on the same transactions/parcels did not match, and apparently the solution was a dummy date. I believe that is for older properties.

If you see dates of 1/1 after the year 2000 (the year they went digital), 1/1 indicates a split bill. Here is what a split is: it takes two years to process a new parcel of land. 1/1 indicates one year into processing (a default date), but the amount it is listed for is not correct; it is an estimate based on square footage. The next year, the land will be processed with a market value from the county with the correct dates.

I hope that was somewhat helpful. Let me know if you want me to look into this further.

walinchus commented 5 years ago

Looks like 1/1/75 is just the default start of their computer system.