Chinese Drywall and Property Assessments

If your home has Chinese drywall, you may be able to get a revised assessment of its value from the Hillsborough County Appraiser's Office. This could reduce your tax bill. The county plans to have comprehensive set of guidelines for adjustment in a week or so.

It asks that individual homeowners not contact the office directly right now because it will create a backlog that will bog down efforts to create the assessment guidelines.

One of our HOA board members, Beth Burns, is collecting the names and addresses of affected homeowners here in St. Charles Place. She will forward your information to the county, which will send you information about the new assessment guidelines once they have been established.

Contact Beth at atlarge@stcharlesplace.us. She will also entertain any questions you have about the the county's action. That reminds me. Below is a list of your St. Charles Place HOA Board of Directors. Click on their names to send an e-mail to them.

• David Hey, President


• John McQuiston, Vice-President


• Ed Palmer, Secretary


• Melissa Larson Cosby, Treasurer


• Beth Burns, Director at Large

If you have a question for the entire board, or want to be sure your message reaches all of us, you can use the contact page on the community's website, http://stcharlesplace.us.