Just in case

I just received a nice awakening. I was randomly perusing the Bossier Assessor's site and noticed that our house had not claimed homestead exemption. I immediately called Randy who made a bee-line to the assessor's office to straighten out the matter. He explained to them that our title company had filed the forms for our homestead exemption. She said, "they tell people that all the time, but they don't even have the forms!" After a little sweet-talking (which is Randy's forte') she backdated our homestead exemption and is crediting our escrow account with the overage that was paid last year (a pretty nice chunk of change!). Thank you, nice assessor's office lady! If you didn't receive a homestead exemption card in the mail last month, you might want to check and make sure yours is filed correctly.