Centuries ago tax assessors didn't have the real estate records to compare house values, much less the computers to crunch the numbers, so a few simpler tricks were tried.

几百年前，估税员可没有房地产记录来比较房屋价值，更别说用电脑处理繁杂的数字，于是他们就动了点小脑筋。

And I ran the Mass real estate records round here.

我查看了许多在这儿的房产记录。