Any experience dealing with LA County Tax Assessor

[Elizabeth Lee]

We placed our multifamily into an LLC and did a what we thought a proper title transfer. The county asked for a copy of the operating agreement - the request we never received. Fast forward four years later, the property went through a tax reassessment and we have penalties on top of the new reassessment.

1. I had no idea, nothing was posted online on the tax assessor’s site; assessed in the winter of 2019 with back penalties and all going back to 2016, and I found out while looking something else up. I do feel that we did not have due process but do you all feel differently?

2. Should I pay it then fight or just fight it? In the past they seemed reasonable but not sure about now with the county offices shuttered.

3. Anyone else have a similar story? I feel like an idiot, this seems like my dumb tax.

Thanks a lot everyone!