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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Hi All,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">I was checking the state department of assessment & taxation website.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">The website is
<a href="http://www.dat.maryland.gov">www.dat.maryland.gov</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">The website is easy enough to navigate, I went to the link Real property
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Then I went to the search real property page. It has a few combo boxes, the first one is for the county and the second is search by, combo box and then it has a continue
button. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">I put in Montgomery and then my street address and hit the continue button.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">It did not work.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">I could not get info about my own property.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">The websites are fine when you want general info but when you try to get the real info, they do not work.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Same is true for the
<a href="http://www.mydhrbenefits.maryland.gov">www.mydhrbenefits.maryland.gov</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Black",sans-serif">Another factor is that the website encourages people to upload their personal info on the page, however the workers are not very good in taking the info. Documents are
lost or never get to the right worker. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Yasmin Reyazuddin, Customer Service Representative II<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">MC311 Customer Service Center<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Office of Public Information <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">1401 Rockville Pike., Suite #300<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Rockville, MD 20852<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">phone: 240-777-0311<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">email: yasmin.reyazuddin<a href="mailto:your%20name@montgomerycountymd.gov"><span style="color:#1F497D;text-decoration:none">@montgomerycountymd.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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