Assessor’s Deaf Ear

Attorney Janice Fogg stated in “Trading Down May Boost Value” (Letters, Sept. 30), “. . . an increase in property taxes can be avoided by filing a claim with the assessor’s office under Proposition 60. . . .” Legally that’s sound advice.

However, senior citizens who qualify may be faced with the assessor’s total disregard. For example, more than two years ago, this reader qualified for Proposition 60 tax benefits. Following innumerable telephone calls, personal visits and certified mail to the assessor’s office, the only response was last June when I received an election folder stating the great job accomplished by the tax assessor. Other than that, a total bureaucratic deaf ear to my claim.

Perhaps the tax assessor reads your newspaper. For sure, he does not read my letters.

DANIEL RASHALL

Los Angeles