Free Property Tax Appeal Tools
These software tools help you understand your assessment, calculate potential savings, draft appeal documents, and rehearse your hearing — all before you file a protest yourself. Pick the tool that matches where you are in the process.
Understand Your Situation
- Property Tax Notice Translator — Translates the assessment notice a homeowner receives every year - a Notice of Appraised Value in Texas, a TRIM (Truth in Millage) notice…
- Should I Appeal My Property Taxes This Year? — Reads the figures off a homeowner's assessment notice and returns a plain yes-or-no recommendation on whether to appeal this year, with the…
- Is My Home Overassessed? Assessment-Ratio Check — Tells a homeowner whether their property looks over-assessed by comparing the value the county put on it against what comparable homes…
- Comparable Sales Strength Ranker — Takes the homeowner's subject property and a set of candidate comparable sales and ranks which comps are the strongest evidence for an…
- County Evidence Rebuttal Builder — Takes the evidence packet the appraisal district (or assessor) plans to use against a homeowner - typically its own comparable sales and…
- Informal Settlement Offer Evaluator — Tells a homeowner whether the informal settlement offer the appraisal district or assessor put on the table is worth accepting, or whether…
Run the Numbers
- Comparable Sales Adjustment Calculator — Builds a side-by-side comparable-sales adjustment grid the way an appraiser would: it takes the homeowner's subject home and a set of…
- DIY vs. Contingency-Firm Cost Calculator — Shows a homeowner, in dollars, which way of appealing their property taxes actually costs the least over the years they expect to keep the…
- Property Tax Savings Calculator — Shows a homeowner, in dollars, what a successful appeal would actually save them.
Build Your Argument
- Property Tax Appeal Argument Strategy Builder — Tells a homeowner which legal ground to lead with and ranks the three strongest arguments for their specific situation, instead of leaving…
Draft Your Documents
- Property Tax Hearing Script Generator — Generates a calm, factual two-minute spoken script a homeowner can read aloud at their property tax appeal hearing.
- Property Tax Appeal Letter Drafter — Drafts a formal written property tax appeal letter a homeowner can submit to their county appraisal district, assessor, or review board.
- Mail-In Hearing Affidavit Generator — Generates a sworn written affidavit of evidence a homeowner can submit instead of appearing in person at their appeal hearing, for when…
- 1-Minute ARB Opening Statement Generator — Drafts a tight, roughly one-minute (about 150-word) spoken opening statement a homeowner can deliver at the start of their property tax…
- Correction-of-Error Motion Drafter — Drafts a motion to correct a factual or clerical error on the assessment roll for homeowners whose property record is simply wrong - too…
- Equal-and-Uniform Argument Builder — Drafts a property tax appeal argument built on the unequal-appraisal (equal-and-uniform) ground rather than on market value - the argument…
- DIY Evidence Packet Outline Builder — Builds a tidy, five-section outline for a do-it-yourself property tax appeal evidence packet from a homeowner's own inputs, so the packet a…
Practice Your Hearing
- Hostile Appeal Board Role-Play Coach — Runs an interactive rehearsal in which the model plays a skeptical, time-pressed member of the homeowner's appeal board and grills them on…
- Property Tax Case Cross-Examiner — Stress-tests a homeowner's property tax appeal case before they ever walk into the hearing room.
Plan Your Timeline
- State-Specific Property Tax Appeal Filing Timeline — Builds a personalized, backward-planned calendar that takes a homeowner from the day they receive their assessment notice all the way to…
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