Marysville neighborhoods, in the city's own words
Marysville's 2024–2044 Comprehensive Plan divides the city into eleven neighborhoods: Downtown, Jennings Park, Sunnyside, East Sunnyside – Whiskey Ridge, Getchell Hill, Pinewood, Kellogg Marsh, Marshall – Kruse, Shoultes, Smokey Point and Lakewood. Its housing chapter shows detached single-family houses as the large majority of the city's 2021 housing stock. The plan's neighborhood descriptions also point to the features that set one home's value apart from another's:
- Sunnyside and East Sunnyside – Whiskey Ridge: westward views and ravines, with steep hillsides in East Sunnyside – Whiskey Ridge and the Ebey Slough floodplain in Sunnyside.
- Jennings Park: shaped by Jennings Park and by Allen and Munson Creeks and their wetlands.
- Getchell Hill: Cedarcrest Golf Course, and views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains.
- Shoultes and Kellogg Marsh: mostly single-family neighborhoods; Kellogg Marsh also has a significant commercial center at 100th Street NE and State Avenue.
- Pinewood: on the northern edge of Downtown, the first area the city grew into in the 1960s.
- Smokey Point: nearly all of it lies within the Cascade Industrial Center.
- Lakewood: a large retail and commercial center on both sides of 172nd Street NE, west of Interstate 5.
A view, a slope, a creek or wetland edge, or a commercial or industrial neighbor can separate two houses of the same size, so comparable sales are picked with those features in mind.
Common reasons Marysville owners order a private appraisal
- Setting a price before listing a home for sale.
- Asking a lender to remove private mortgage insurance; check the lender's requirements first.
- Planning a renovation and wanting a current value to start from.
- An estate, divorce or tax matter; the estate, divorce and IRS step-up pages explain those.
- Appealing the county's assessed value, as described below.
Appealing a Snohomish County assessment
The Snohomish County Assessor values property at its market value as of January 1 of the assessment year (RCW 84.40.020). An owner who disagrees petitions the Snohomish County Board of Equalization. The deadline is whichever comes later: July 1 of the assessment year, or 60 days after the date printed on the value notice (RCW 84.40.038; the county's appeal FAQ). A petition sent by mail needs a postmark no later than that deadline. The assessor's value is presumed correct, and the owner has to overcome it with clear, cogent and convincing evidence (RCW 84.40.0301). The county lists independent appraisals among helpful evidence, but its appeal guide also says an appraisal is not required for a successful appeal and may cost more than the tax it saves. A board decision can be taken to the State Board of Tax Appeals within 30 days of its mailing (RCW 84.08.130).
An appraisal for an appeal looks at the value on January 1 of the year being appealed, so tell us that year and the date on your notice when you request the scope, fee and delivery date in writing.