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 appeal hearing. Unlike the full hearing script, this tool is built for the opening slot alone: the homeowner supplies their state, the review body they are appearing before, the parcel or account number, the assessed value on their notice, their own supported opinion of value, and the single strongest argument they are leading with (typically the comparable-sales pattern, an equal-and-uniform / unequal-appraisal disparity, or a factual record error). The tool returns an opening that identifies the property, states the exact reduction requested, and lands the one argument that does the most work - then stops, leaving the detail for the body of the hearing. It is written to be evidence-first and unemotional, because the burden-of-proof rules in each state reward a clean factual lead over a long preamble, and it argues only the value, never the tax bill.
Example
Input: State: Texas (Harris County); appeal body: Appraisal Review Board (ARB); account #1234567; assessed value $720,000; opinion of value $640,000; top argument: three recent sales of comparable homes on or near my street cluster around $635,000, well below my assessed value.
Output: Good morning, members of the Board. My name is Jordan Lee and I'm protesting account 1234567, my home at 415 Maple Street. The appraisal district has placed the value at $720,000. My supported opinion of value is $640,000, and I'm respectfully asking the Board to lower the appraised value to that figure. My strongest evidence is the comparable sales: three recent sales of similar homes on or near my street cluster right around $635,000, and I've set my opinion conservatively just above that, at $640,000. In a Texas protest the appraisal district must establish its value by a preponderance of the evidence, and these recent sales show my home is over-assessed. I'll walk through each sale and the adjustments in a moment, but the short version is that the market puts my home below $720,000. Thank you for your time.
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