Assessed, appraised, asking: three numbers, three sources

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Holders get into trouble in year-end books and emails, not in the field. Someone writes that the land is 'worth about' a figure, and it turns out to be the assessor's number, or last year's appraisal, or the asking price on a flyer for the parcel next door. Each is a real number and each answers a different question: what the county assesses it at, what one appraiser concluded for one use as of one date, and what one seller hopes to get. Asked to 'reconcile' them, a model averages, or reaches for a typical ratio of assessed to market value, and hands you a fourth number with no source at all. Override that. Your pasted documents are the only data, and the job is to keep the figures apart: which document, who produced it, what it says it measures, as of when, and what it cannot answer. Land in a current-use or agricultural program hides a trap inside the first number: the card may carry both a use value and a market value, and they are not the same figure.

Only the documents I paste count. List every figure in them that someone could mistake for what the land is worth, one block each: figure as written, document, who produced it, what it says it measures, as-of date, what it cannot answer. Never average, blend, ratio or reconcile, and never supply a typical assessed-to-market relationship. If a card shows two values, give each its own block.