Delinquent Invoice File Request from Real Estate Services

Whether or not you have already sent out your Delinquent Notices, Real Estate Service companies (e.g. CoreLogic, Wells Fargo, Lereta, etc.) will soon be requesting that you send delinquent invoice files to them.

Keeping with the theme of reduce, reuse, and recycle, the following links will take you to:

As always, you can bookmark our FAQs page, and check back regularly as we are continually updating.

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Delinquent Notices, Liening, and Deeding Reminder

Happy New Year! What goes best with the new year? A new schedule of dates for Delinquent Notices, Liening, and Deeding. Whether you are brand new to the position, or you are a seasoned Collector, this information can be very helpful in setting yourself up for a successful 2024.

Below is a link to a blog post we sent in January 2023. This blog post contains a brief description of each process as well as the RSAs that govern said process. For details on how to complete the steps in Avitar Tax Collect, select the link provided (within the blog post) in each of the processes.

Delinquent Notices, Liening, and Deeding.

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Collect Year End

As we receive a higher volume of calls this time of year assisting Collectors in their Year End Close, we want to supply you with some additional resources to provide you some extra guidance.

Once you are finished entering payments for the year, you will need to print your reports and balance for the month of December. Then you will be able to move on to running reports and balancing for the year. Keep in mind, you CANNOT post any transaction/payment for 2024 until your 2023 fiscal year has been closed in collect.

Previously, if you posted a transaction (payment, abatement, refund) after year end but before you closed the fiscal year, you had to call Avitar for a script to update the monthly balance report. With our 7.0.4 update, if you post a transaction after year end but before you close, when selecting the Monthly Balance or Lien Redemption report, a message box will display notifying you that “You are currently past the end of FY2023, but not yet into FY2024. The effective dates for transactions done in this period will be modified to be included on this report.” This process will eliminate the need to call Avitar for a script.

Since there are many reports that need to be created/printed, we have several Year End Tips and Tutorial topics with more detailed instructions for:

  1. Year End Zoom Webinar
  2. FAQs for Year End Process
  3. Monthly Balancing
  4. List of reports that are necessary for most audits.
  5. Reviewing, understanding, balancing, and submitting your MS-61.
  6. Creating a backup of your data.
  7. Performing the actual Close Period.

If you encounter any issues, or have any questions, please feel free to call us.

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Registration Renewal(s) and Decals Lost-in-the-Mail

A resident renewed their registration(s) online or via mail. You processed the transaction(s), mailed out the decals and registration(s), and thought all was well and done. A couple weeks later, the customer calls because they still have not received their documents in the mail. What do you do?

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Archive Database Reminder

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (a Blog Post)

Look, just because we originally sent this out years ago doesn’t mean it’s not still a good idea…

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Mailing Addresses on the Assessing Internet Kiosk

Did you know your municipality can opt to display owner mailing addresses on the Assessing Internet Kiosk?

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Assessing Internet Kiosk – Assessment Card PDFs

Did you know that your municipality can display PDF Assessment Cards on the Assessing Internet Kiosk?

Earlier this year, we relased a new PDF add-on feature for the Assessing Internet Kiosk which gives your municipality the ability to upload PDF copies of individual assessment cards to the Assessing Internet Kiosk for online users to print and/or download actual assessment cards in PDF format.  Keep reading for more details on the features and requirements for implementation.

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Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) & Axles

It has been brought to our attention that when processing new title(s)/registration(s) for vehicles with a Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW) over 26,000 lbs., the Town-only transactions will not make it to MAAP if you do not answer the prompts correctly. This short blog post will help you take the correct course of action during the processing of these transactions.

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Post Script: 2023 MS-1 Report Information

A few days ago we posted some information regarding the 2023 MS-1 and evidently one item in particular caused some confusion. Let me try to rectify that.

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2023 MS-1 Report Information

For the second year in a row, there are no changes for 2023 to the MS-1 Report file specification. See below for what this means for you with respect to generating your 2023 MS-1 Report and submitting it to the DRA:

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