Good luck. Unless you have the right comps, you won't get much. I tried fighting it a couple years ago. Before the hearing, they offered a 1% reduction; I thought I had evidence to warrant a reduction of about 8%. After politely listening to me, their case was presented using comps I considered highly unreasonable, and the panel voted to approve the 1% reduction.
This was in Collin County. Our 1:00 appointment consisted of 20 people being ushered into the room to await their turn. I was first; perhaps they wanted to make an example of me in hopes that some of the others would give up and leave before their turn came up.
They get you coming and going. Try to refinance and your house won’t appraise. But it will still be appraised higher than it is on the tax roles.
I’ll have to admit my taxes have decreased over the past two years. In an “up” market my payments would have gone up. Instead they stayed the same and I actually got a $32 refund this year.
But I won’t be surprised when the rate is increased to pay for all the new schools that were built over the past few years.
Thanks for the post. I’ll be sure to get all my ducks in a row and go in loaded for bear....so to speak.