Say What?

Wow. I got a letter from the town I live in today.
All the houses in town have been re-assessed over the last 6 months or so, and they finally shared the assessed value with me - just in time for my biannual tax bill. I am surprised, yet not surprised.
I have to wonder how they truly arrived at said value without doing any more than walking around the outside of the house when I wasn't even home (footprints in the snow gave them away). Seems a bit odd.

The end result - the town's gonna get a lot more tax money out of me. And I still don't have trash pickup. Hmmmm.