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Why protest? Why not use property tax firms?
Property tax consultants may have an “understanding” with the county – this may not necessarily benefit you and your property. Also, often agents use a generic argument for a neighborhood, not individual arguments for each house. While we can’t guarantee you win (no one can) – we can guarantee this won’t happen with us!
Homeowners already outperform agents (82% wins vs 53%) in Houston. An agent losing once can cost you big – why gamble on them?
Tax agents often can’t know your neighborhood in detail. But without details, how can they adjust for home differences? They can’t. We help you combine strong homeowner arguments with a better-than-agent quality presentation.
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Why EZPropTax?
- Regain your life: Finish a great property tax protest in 80% less time (~1-2 hours vs 20!)
- Improve your case’s details, arguments, and style: Potentially boost your win rate and savings
- Get all the property differences together in two easy charts for the ARB to understand quickly
How it works:
Step 1: Sign up above for free to our newsletter – we’ll keep you posted so you don’t miss deadlines.
Step 2: Take pictures of your house ASAP, ideally on January 1, but as soon as you read this. Take at least 1-2 good photos per room, and pictures of the entire property. Remember the date!
Step 3: Sign up to protest (it’s free) on your county website or mail your protest in by May 15.
Step 4: Request the informal hearing with evidence with your county website. (Travis will send you the data automatically – if you didn’t get it within 3 weeks, contact them.)
Step 5: Sign up for EZPropTax. You will get a “Your EZPropTax order has been received!” email. Scroll to the bottom, where there is a link to a Google Form. Open it, fill out, and submit! (2minutes).
Step 6: You will get another email (Part 2). Correct the data we send you in the Google Form link with your knowledge of your area and our guidance (30min – 2hrs) and submit.
Step 7: You will get a final email with a generated PDF containing:
1) descriptions of each property
2) comparisons and charts of the differences between your property and the rest
3) a simple market valuation
4) a comparable valuation you can consider as well
If you don’t get the generated PDF email within a few minutes, it is likely that some data was not entered correctly, so you will have to redo the form! Follow the instructions and check carefully so you don’t have to resubmit Part 2.
Step 8: Review the document to edit anything you don’t like, attach pictures of all properties and which category of problem they fall into at the end. Follow your county’s submission procedures. Now you’re ready for the ARB formal hearing!
How You Win
Our strategy relies on 3 separate “ways to win” the property tax protest for you. Therefore, if you convince the board that any of the 3 following methods is valid (and it’s hard to dispute them because they are valid methodologies), you automatically win. Below are these 3 strategies.
Method 1: The simple market valuation is easy to understand. It is based on last year’s assessment, adjusted for the market change over the last year. Hard to argue against – IF you have the proof of where the market is.
Method 2: Take 3 comparable houses from the county’s valuation, adjusted to reality, and average them. This method is more or less what the county does, but more detailed. Because you are using their comparable properties, it’s hard for them to argue against this.
Method 3: If all else fails, the 3 non-comparables are used to break down the county analysis by showing how they are comparing apples to oranges. For example, usually houses that sell are newly built or remodeled houses, and the county tries to use these to raise the value of older houses. Obviously, this is not correct. If you are successful here, the board may accept your evidence (depending on state). This is the most critical method – if you disprove their comps, they have no case – so you win by default!
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