This year, Warren Leisenring, Jr. was involved in five SCAR cases in upstate New York. He writes about them here, to show why there is a critical need for change. In all five SCAR Hearing cases, true justice for the property owner was not served. None of these grievances should have gone to Small Claims. He has argued grievances over the past few decades and have seen an ever-increasing need for better training of Assessors, Boards of Assessment Review and even Hearing Officers. The solution to this problem is simple but no one seems to want to fix it. Read more