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You need to call your local assessor's office. My homestead exemption was canceled because although I still owned the property, I was temporarily staying in another city, so they assumed on their own that since I was no longer living there, it no longer qualified (it should have never been dropped. The property never changed character, I only moved temporarily to help nurse a relative back to health.)

My guess is yours also changed based on an address change, such as having your mailed forwarded to that address. It seems that we no longer need to fill out forms, we only need to change our address to have the assessors change the character of our homes.

Call the assessor and see if this is what happened to you. Regardless of whether or not this is how the homestead exemption was changed, you can petition them to change it back.

I hope this helps.

Expert:	Anne
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Answered:	9/18/2009

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