Full interview: Dallas realtor shares how to protest your tax property appraisal

this video was so informative and answered all the questions I had written down! I feel confident tackling this myself now and moving forward. Thank you please keep up the great work!

Stop arguing the amount! Learn your rights people. You have both state and federal constitutionally protected rights to own property. Your home is a Non Commercial Property. THE ONLY TAXES THAT CAN BE IMPOSED ARE IMPOST, EXPOST, AND EXCISE. You home is being taxed under excise, which is a privilege tax. Owning a home to provide shelter where no business is being conducted is a right! Not a privilege!

Tax Assessors office should also understand other outlier issues such as one income in home, so while there is a willingness to pay, there may be an inability to pay the higher taxes.

We got our first property tax statement after buying our home last year and the assessed value went up $65,000 seems super high to me

Great video. Thank you both.

here are two stories that no one is talking about.... I know of a neighborhood in North Texas where the appraisals went up so high and fast that they went to protest and the appraisal people told them the high valuations was due to the fact that those homes have private pools.... so this weekend there are people in the neighborhood draining their pools and are saying they are going to be filling their pools in with dirt and grass.... water has been running thru the streets all day long today... sad day but why have a pool if it puts you into bankruptcy from the tax bill... I talked with another owner and they said they just went and got a resale license and are now claiming their home as a business ... DayCare Center.... they will pay their taxes and write them off at the end of the year as a business.... they say they will show some profit on the business so it looks like they are actually running the business out of their home.... they removed the homestead exemptions to allow them to do this... they said there are a lot of tax advantages once they turn their home into a business... I never thought of it like that but I know there are a lot of people who run DayCare out of their homes...

Do you provide tax dispute services within the San Antonio area?

Do you have anybody from the appraisal district that is a broker join your MLS? We do in Bay City

One thing I don’t understand. I live in Westchester County, NY; a notoriously high tax area. Our assessment goes up every year. Not only for our house, but for all houses in the town just because of the nature of the real estate market. However, since the town’s budget was not substantially increased, the tax rates were adjusted such that the actual taxes did not increase significantly compared to the previous year. What are the actual tax bills in Texas?

Appraisal districts are not your friend. Past years the 3 person panels have been decent, but in 2022, they completely ignored all our evidence, which was overwhelming in our favor. We are now headed to a SOAH appeal because there are countless homes in our area that have much better amenities and have a market value $100++/sq ft less than ours.

We did this and appraiser refused to acknowledge our home size was inaccurate. They stated our home was 300 sq feet larger than it is. Adjusted during protest but took our homestead exemption cap down by 30k and brought us back to basically where we were prior. Help

Thank you!!

So I challenged my property valuation this past year and got it reduced along with many others around me. Great, right? Now this year, my home has actually gone down in value while the land has gone up considerably in value. Any advice for how I can challenge the land valuation?

Wellllll. You have not mentioned the 'taxx authorities ' that use this as a windfall by not reducing taxx rate.

is this only in Dallas Tx. ? What about Houston tx?

How do we win?

Mine just went up over 70k this year! This is crazy.

Please provide contact info for Cypress TX area. Thanks

Real estate taxes are direct taxes upon the property owner. According to the Supreme Court, isn't the state government limited as to the amount they can demand?

Why would an owner protest if they have an exemption (with the cap) and very little value adjusting arguments to support a lower value ? I struggle with this when the mkt value is up 50% and the cap for the value that drives what we pay in taxes is capped at 10%. It seems protesting is a complete waste of time. Am I missing something? Great video too.