1. Product Work Log
Name__Nathan Hayenga___________________________________ Date __April 18th, 2012
Product _A Submittable appeal to the County Board of Assessors____________________
Date/Time: Activity: Comment/Suggestions:
2/21/2012 Finding the correct form for Cherokee
90 minutes County houses.
Commentary:
I can’t believe that I made the mistake
of getting the wrong areas form, honest
mistake with my address being
Alpharetta, which is primarily in
Fulton county. Easy fix once Mrs.
McCord stopped laughing at me.
2/23/2012 Activity:
180 minutes Finding comparable property’s on
Zillow.com to show the value of mine.
Commentary:
Found five almost perfect houses, This
is fairly easy to navigate. Zillow is
really slow though and keeps crashing.
Found homes all over with almost
identical traits as mine.
2/24/2012 Activity:
90 minutes After Mrs. McCord corrected my
mistake of using different locations I
got to find three new properties.
Commentary:
As it turns out, much of a home’s value
is dependent on location, go figure. So
to get an accurate read taking location

2. into account I used homes in my
subdivision (I probably should have
led off with that, but what can you do).
3/2/2012 Activity:
60 minutes I searched for the official record cards
which are available online in Cherokee
county.
Comments:
Searched, didn’t find. I wandered
through the county website, to no avail.
Now I understand why no-one really
does this, I seem to run into a problem
every step of the way.
3/3/2012 Activity:
180 minutes Getting the actual property cards
online, (with the help of Mrs. McCord)
and deciding on the most important
features of the cards. Then we went to
the homes in my subdivision and took
pictures of features to compare that
highlight similarities.
Comments:
It was right under my nose the whole
time, another of my proudest moments.
If I had just asked my project
facilitator for help to start with this
would have gone much smoother. I
also learned that the most significant
things to mention are square footage,
lot size, and the number of bathrooms.
3/10/2012 Activity:
90 minutes I made a spreadsheet of the most
important aspects of the homes,
bedrooms, bathrooms, size, and then

3. found the amount of property taxes
paid per unit using x-cell’s functions.
Comments:
I didn’t know that x-cell had the ability
to do automatic functions, and I had a
forty five ish minute lesson with my
dad, I guess that that is just another
skill I got to learn during this project.
3/11/2012 Activity:
90 minutes Filled out the form for the appeal
(which I had lost).
Comments:
This probably would have taken half of
the time it did if I had kept up with the
form, I guess there is something to say
for organization.
3/14/2012 Activity:
150 minutes Final organization and putting together
of the project.
Comments:
Explained the math that I did to come
up with my final estimate. And just
made everything all pretty and stuff.