By Ashley Sava

Hays County residents started seeing their annual notice of home appraisals in the mail this week. The Hays Central Appraisal District started sending out the notices — more than 76,000 of them — on May 1.

And some homeowners aren’t happy about what they read in those letters.

Yvonne Flores-Cale responded to the Hays Free Press in a Facebook post about the 2015 appraisals, writing, “Holy Guacamole! Ours went [up] 30,000. We have done zero updates to this house...