Property Characteristic Change Form – Owner Requested Questionnaire – Alameda County, CA

The Property Characteristic Change Form – Owner Requested Questionnaire is a form from the Alameda County Assessor's Office that a property owner completes to request a change to the characteristics of a property, as its title indicates. The Assessor lists it in its Assessor Forms library under the type "Questionnaire", with no BOE form number printed beside it.

The Alameda County Assessor's Office is the county office at 1221 Oak Street, Room 145, Oakland, CA 94612. Its forms page collects the forms it offers for download, from exemption claims and change-of-ownership statements to mailing address changes. This questionnaire sits in that library next to other questionnaires, such as the New Construction Questionnaire and the Cost Questionnaire For Additions And Alterations - Residential, which are separate forms. It is also separate from the Mailing Address Change forms for real property.

The Assessor asks that every form be completed as fully as possible for quicker processing. It also asks for the owner's name or business name, the mailing address, the business location if applicable, the parcel number if known and a telephone number. Every California county has its own set of forms, so this one applies to property in Alameda County.

Property owners in Alameda County who want to request a change to the characteristics of their property are the people this form is meant for; the word "Owner Requested" in the title points to the owner as the person who starts the request. The Assessor's forms page does not describe eligibility rules or who may sign for an owner, so contact the office if you are acting for someone else.

Keep these points in mind:

• The form belongs to the Alameda County Assessor. If your property is in another California county, the Assessor's page says to contact that county's Assessor's Office, because every county has its own forms.
• Businesses can also use the Assessor's forms: the page asks for a business name and the location of the business, if applicable.
• Other situations have their own forms in the same library, such as a mailing address change, a new construction questionnaire or a change in ownership statement. Use the form that matches your request.

The Assessor's forms page sets no deadline for this questionnaire, so you submit it whenever you want to request a change to your property's characteristics. Complete it as fully as possible before sending it, because the Assessor says a complete form is processed more quickly and may not be processed at all if your name or business name, mailing address, parcel number (if known) and telephone number are missing.

The Assessor's forms page gives a mailing address and contact details for the office; it prints no separate address or portal for this questionnaire.

• By mail: Alameda County Assessor's Office, 1221 Oak Street, Room 145, Oakland, CA 94612. The Assessor asks you to write the work unit or topic on the envelope (its examples are Exemptions, Personal Property and Change of Address), so name the topic of your request.
• Questions: call (510) 272-3787 or write to [email protected].

Include your name or business name, mailing address, the location of the business if applicable, the parcel number if known and a telephone number. The Assessor warns that without this information it may not be able to process your form. FillingPDF lets you fill out and download the PDF; submission follows the channels above.