Scad Property Search

[Emerenciana Mcgreal]

AccountNumber Account numbers can be found on your Tax Statement. If you do not know the account number try searching by owner name/address or property location. Example: 126058600010

Property Location This is the actual property address. Enter the street number followed by a space and the street name. Do NOT enter street type or direction such as: Ave., Ln., or Dr. Example:100 Weatherford

The Cherokee Central Appraisal District welcomes you to our website. We hope you will find the information contained here to be useful. At this site, you may search the appraisal roll data, look at a copy of The Taxpayers Rights, Remedies and Responsibilities, and browse related sites that we thought might be of interest. Be sure to bookmark this page for future reference.

Cherokee Central Appraisal District is responsible for appraising all real and business personal property within Cherokee Central. The District appraises property according to the Texas Property Tax Code and the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practices (USPAP).

The District also collects taxes for jurisdictions within Cherokee County. However, we do not collect for the following taxing authorities:

There are several ways to file an administrative complaint. The following links describe each method. A person should carefully review those options in deciding the best avenue for filing a complaint.

Bull City Public Investigators is launching a new collaboration, BCPI Open Sources or BCPI.OS that will leverage public data to help Durham residents better understand our city. The new team is dedicated to uncovering trends and patterns hidden in the incredible trove of data maintained by local, state and federal government agencies. The BCPI.OS team is made up of Lucia Constantine, Chris Fedor and Tate Halverson.

Both sides have expressed their views on SCAD though public hearings, at community engagement sessions and across online platforms. Using speaker lists from three public hearings and top advocates on neighborhood listservs, 23 proponents and 20 opponents were identified and included in this analysis.

The proponent with the most extensive property holdings is Thomas Hennessey, the co-founder and manager of West 4th LLC, a real estate investment company. According to Durham County tax records, West 4th LLC has 94 properties in the county that add up to over $16.5 million of tax value and over 18 acres of land area.

Tax valuations typically run short of market valuations. According to their own website, West 4th LLC holds assets totaling over 170 units and $35 million in holdings, more than twice the value demonstrated by tax valuations alone.

Hennessey has been purchasing properties in Durham since 2012 when he began purchasing courthouse mortgage foreclosures and bank-owned properties. A closer look at West 4th LLC properties on the map shows a tendency to cluster ownership on similar blocks.

He is not alone in that approach with some proponents purchasing entire city blocks. Approximately 130 out of 218 known SCAD proponent investment properties are contiguous to at least one other SCAD proponent owned investment property. Assembling contiguous parcels allows developers to envision larger projects that can have a transformative effect on the surrounding neighborhood.

Among the public SCAD proponents, business and property records show 70% own rental or investment properties. The majority of those properties are owned by Limited Liability Corporations (LLCs), a type of business structure that provides limited liability, tax benefits and in some cases, anonymity, for owners. In total, there are 23 SCAD proponents who have documented affiliations with at least 142 unique active organizations (LLCs or other corporations) filed with the North Carolina Secretary of State. There are three instances of multiple SCAD proponents jointly owning a real estate-related company.

Only 10% of SCAD opponents own investment properties for a total parcel count of three rental or investment properties among the 20 opponents who have spoken against SCAD at public hearings or who signed up to speak March 20. Collectively, the SCAD opponents are affiliated with a total of six unique active organizations registered with the State. None of those six are known real estate companies.

Of the 142 unique business registrations for the SCAD proponents, 125 are registrations for Limited Liability Companies (LLCs). LLCs are an increasingly attractive vehicle for small-scale owners and private equity firms alike to acquire properties across Durham. By using an LLC, an individual owner or group of investors can access certain tax and liability benefits. But from the perspective of residents, researchers and city officials trying to understand who owns properties, the LLC structure can obscure the individuals behind them.

Disclosure: Several members of the BCPI.OS team have expressed public views in opposition to SCAD. This article was researched and written by the BCPI.OS team with contributions from Brian Callaway, who has also spoken publicly against the SCAD amendments.

Thanks for researching and putting together this highly pertinent and informative article. This is just another example of those with means trying to manipulate a situation for the purpose of serving their own interests, rather than to "solve a problem" as they so claim. It was just posted on the Morehead Hill Neighborhood list serve. As I commented, Hennessey exemplifies the phenomena that's the subject of a "how to" book titled: "Long Distance Real Estate Investing: How to Buy, Rehab, and Manage Out-of-State Rental Properties" by David Greene. These are folks whose only roots lie in profit with no authentic ties to community or social equity.

I really like seeing this kind of thing, but what is the source of data for "proponent" or "opponent"? This is the type of analysis that's easy to spoof in either direction without a clear understanding of what data is used and how it was gathered. The links just generally point you to a list of tax records and then pins on a map. How specifically were the "proponent" and "opponent" determined and who are they?

On the heels of yet another delayed Council vote on the proposed changes to Durham\u2019s development code billed as \u201CSimplifying Code for Affordable Development,\u201D or SCAD for short, a detailed assessment of public records found proponents of SCAD are much more likely to own investment properties and register businesses related to real estate than opponents of SCAD. And if SCAD were to pass, proponents would stand to make significant returns on those investments, based on potential for redevelopment and rise in land values.

The gulf of ownership stake is especially evident when the affiliated properties from the two groups are mapped. Relying on tax records available from Durham County, BCPI.OS created interactive maps showing which parcels are owned (excluding primary residences) by proponents versus opponents. Selecting a marker shows the individual, any affiliated business registration and the parcel\u2019s tax value.

\u201CSCAD will be a great benefit to Durham,\u201D he wrote in an email to the Cleveland-Holloway listserv, \u201CInfill standards have been very troubling to the growth of Durham and I\u2019m glad to see SCAD address that.\u201D

3a8082e126