so he got off the exemption before he became the mayor...."After opting out of the program in 2012, taking only the $80,000 owner-occupant exemption, they paid $6,088 in taxes on an assessed property value of $1.81 million."......."When Caldwell again ran for mayor in 2012 — after the city tightened rules for the deduction — they opted out, as did several other owners of historic homes." or you counting when he was "acting"?