Property Tax update on 770 KKOB AM

Thanks to Bob Clark and 770 KKOB for hosting Stephanie Dzur and I last week.
We fielded dozens of calls about the property tax lightning and other property tax issues.
If you aren’t familiar with Stephanie’s name you should be. Stephanie is a local attorney won the case last year against the Bernalillo County assessor’s office [...]

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The passing of an era

Posted in our sister blog, Todd Clarke’s Technology Corner, is an obituary of the man who developed the hardware for the first personal computer.
His fulltime job was as a scientist at Sandia National Labratories, but his interests were in developing computers that the public could use.
His company, MITS, developed the hardware, but he needed a [...]

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NM Notices of property tax value are being mailed out

Bernalillo County is mailng out notices of value on April 1st, 2010 and the deadline to file a protest of value will be 30 days after that.
The remaining 32 counties have indicated that this is there mailing schedule:

Our firm offers three options to assist you in property tax protests:
1. buy our 250+ page, fourth edition [...]

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Another Albuquerque historic landmark gone…

Albuquerque, History, Housing Comments (0)

Almost a year ago, I wrote about the devastating fire at the Castle apartments. Located on Central Avenue at about 15th street, the apartments were incredibly well built, had an appealing interior design and finish and were well loved by anyone who has ever lived there.

Although several local developers looked at ways to save the structure and renovate the building, it was demolished this week. The following photos are pictures I took when I toured the property with the owners a few years ago and/or recent photos of the demolition.

KRQE website has coverage of the fire and the demolition.-

All that remains today are the original carriage houses, now car garages to the south of the original structures.

As one of Albuquerque’s finest apartment structures, you will be missed.

Todd Clarke @ July 24, 2010

Honey, where did we park the house?

Believe it or Not!, Location, Redevelopment Comments (0)

I could have sworn we left it right here on the corner of Sinkhole Avenue and Dropoff Blvd…

This first appeared on one of my favorite gadget blogs, Gizmodo, and then was followed by a posting with more photos on the National Geographic website.

Before my friends in Albuquerque chuckle too much about those crazy places (like California) that seem to suffer from too many of these natural disasters, a few years ago, an Albuquerque sink hole swallowed up a Albuquerque Fire Department truck.

Latest update - we now have video.

Too my friends in the development business, how would you value a site like this?

Todd Clarke @ June 4, 2010