Brooke Walters tells her students at Sarasota High School that a big part of success in life is knowing the rules and then following them. The veteran Spanish teacher sees herself very much as a rule ...

Property owners who suffered damage from Hurricane Debby may be entitled to reductions in their property taxes, according to an email from Sarasota County Property Appraiser Bill Furst's office.

Furst also wrote that such maintenance activity increases the assessed value of a home, irrespective of the homestead exemption – and he boldly declared that state laws "don’t give a property ...

Florida homeowners have increasingly been forced by insurance companies to replace their roofs under threat of huge spikes in premiums — that is, if they can get coverage at all. At the same time, in ...

Rejecting lower-court decisions, the Florida Supreme Court said that a Sarasota man should not have received a homestead property-tax exemption for part of his house that he rented out. The Supreme ...

In an Oct. 8 guest column, Sarasota County Property Appraiser Bill Furst attempted to justify his position that repairs to or replacements of worn-out roofs, not due to a calamity or misfortune, ...