1. Web Tutorial Using the Assessor’s Site May 27, 1999

2. Polk County Assessor Home Page URL = www.assess.co.polk.ia.us

3. Bookmarking the Site

4. Moving Around Use the ‘Tab Key’ to move from field to field (shift tab to move to previous field). OR Use the mouse to click from field to field.

5. Query Options for Property Search Homeowner Query General Query Legal Query Commercial Query Photo Search Skip to next subject

6. Home Owner Query Query by –street address and/or –jurisdiction (optional) –owners last name and initial of first name (optional) Enter what you know. Partial information is acceptable. This is an intelligent query capable of interpreting the users request. See Example Back to index

7. General Query Powerful query capable of identifying combinations and/or ranges of data. Query by –Property Address Use 2nd House # field to search for a range of addressesrange of addresses Exclude direction (NW, S, SE, etc) and suffix (ST, AV, CT, etc.). Query will NOT work with these qualifiers. –Ownership Enter exact or partial spelling of name –District (Requires 3 digits) / Parcel (do not need leading zeros) –GeoParcel Actual Match Back to index

8. Legal Query Back to index

9. Commercial Query Back to index

10. Photo Search Back to index

11. Query to Vague

12. Report Options

13. Assessor Navigation Bar

14. Actual vs. Match

15. Home Owner Query

16. General Query

17. Township Range Link

18. The End

19. APPENDIX Examples

20. Example - Home Owner Query [ Index ] [ About Query ]IndexAbout Query

21. Example - General Query [ Index ] [ About Query ]IndexAbout Query

22. Example - Legal Query [ Index ] [ About Query ]IndexAbout Query

23. Example - Commercial Query [ Index ] [ About Query ]IndexAbout Query

24. Example - Photo Query [ Index ] [ About Query ]IndexAbout Query

25. Address Range from General Query [ About Query ]About Query