Brooke Walters tells her students at Sarasota High School that a big part of success in life is knowing the rules and then following them. The veteran Spanish teacher sees herself very much as a rule ...

Sarasota County Property Appraiser Bill Furst's office will no longer increase a homesteaded property's taxable value for routinely replacing a roof after two homeowners successfully challenged the ...

Furst also wrote that such maintenance activity increases the assessed value of a home, irrespective of the homestead exemption – and he boldly declared that state laws "don’t give a property ...

I can fully understand Joseph McCarthy’s frustration about his fully homesteaded property losing the Save Our Homes protection simply because he replaced his aging roof (“Sarasota retiree hits the ...

Property owners who suffered damage from Hurricane Debby may be entitled to reductions in their property taxes, according to an email from Sarasota County Property Appraiser Bill Furst's office.

Florida homeowners have increasingly been forced by insurance companies to replace their roofs under threat of huge spikes in premiums — that is, if they can get coverage at all. At the same time, in ...

A pair of out-of-state buyers paid $18.42 million for 18.42 acres of land just west of Palmer Ranch where a 325-unit ...

In an Oct. 8 guest column, Sarasota County Property Appraiser Bill Furst attempted to justify his position that repairs to or replacements of worn-out roofs, not due to a calamity or misfortune, ...