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by: v1kings28 Active Indicator LED Icon 2 OP 
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 11:23am  
They keep emailing me and based on research of their website seems like an easy way to reduce my taxes possibly. Has anyone else used them or similar company.  I know I could do this myself but honestly don't feel up to the hassle with my busy schedule. Thoughts?  4951
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Ebola Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 11:32am  
Yes they get 50% of your 50% and another 50% for fees. 4951
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v1kings28 Active Indicator LED Icon 2 OP 
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 11:36am  
Yes they get 50% of your 50% and another 50% for fees.

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So not worth it 4951
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ctl74 Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 11:37am  
I did it myself last year and won. Saw a nice reduction in my monthly mortgage payment last month! 4951
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sweetie Active Indicator LED Icon 11 Forum Moderator
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 11:42am  
I use O Connor for all my properties. They manage to get my property taxes down most of the time on most of my properties. If you save $500 in taxes you pay them $250. 4951
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v1kings28 Active Indicator LED Icon 2 OP 
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 11:46am  
I use O Connor for all my properties. They manage to get my property taxes down most of the time on most of my properties. If you save $500 in taxes you pay them $250.

@sweetie: And I don't pay any additional fees?  So Win or lose I wont' pay anything out of "pocket" that is not subtracted from the tax savings?  4951
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ET Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 11:48am  
I have used them for years. Sometimes I win (this year) sometimes I lose (last year). Can't say if I would have fared better on my own, but I didn't have to prep anything or go to a hearing with knuckleheaded bureaucrats.
The whole system pretty much sucks.
There are others that do this but I have not talked to them. Think they are probably all the same. You pay half of the first year's tax savings, if any. 4951
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sweetie Active Indicator LED Icon 11 Forum Moderator
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 12:01pm  

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>> I use O Connor for all my properties. They manage to get my property taxes down most of the time on most of my properties. If you save $500 in taxes you pay them $250.
 
@sweetie: And I don't pay any additional fees?  So Win or lose I wont' pay anything out of "pocket" that is not subtracted from the tax savings? 
 
@v1kings28:
 
Right. You only pay 50% of the taxes saved. You pay that one time. No fees. If the properties value stays the same then you pay nothing. You have nothing to lose. 4951
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Ebola Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 12:08pm  
1% guys if homes are renting above 1% doubtful if you will see a reduction.
 
Unless you can prove deterioration. 4951
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HollyHobby Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 1:00pm  
We did our own last year. We missed a couple of deadlines and ended up having to present our case to the 3-person panel. They were very nice, but I did spend a lot of time preparing for it. When the Harris County person presented his rebuttal, he based it solely on one page that we had seen but didn't realize would be the only source of their argument. Now we know better and will be prepared. 4951
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Steven H Active Indicator LED Icon 4
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 1:02pm  
Curios, my protest is  Thursday, what page are you referring to? 4951
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lisapisabobisa Active Indicator LED Icon 8
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 1:05pm  
We did our own last year. We missed a couple of deadlines and ended up having to present our case to the 3-person panel. They were very nice, but I did spend a lot of time preparing for it. When the Harris County person presented his rebuttal, he based it solely on one page that we had seen but didn't realize would be the only source of their argument. Now we know better and will be prepared.
 
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Help! I'm submitting my protest today. They want to go up $27k. Did you include comparable houses for sale that are listed at much less than what they want to go up to? Any tips you can provide? I've never done this and need all the help I can get. Thx! 4951
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~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 1:17pm  

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>> We did our own last year. We missed a couple of deadlines and ended up having to present our case to the 3-person panel. They were very nice, but I did spend a lot of time preparing for it. When the Harris County person presented his rebuttal, he based it solely on one page that we had seen but didn't realize would be the only source of their argument. Now we know better and will be prepared.
 
@HollyHobby:
 
Help! I'm submitting my protest today. They want to go up $27k. Did you include comparable houses for sale that are listed at much less than what they want to go up to? Any tips you can provide? I've never done this and need all the help I can get. Thx!

@lisapisabobisa:  Unfortunately, on the form you fill out, there's very little room for an argument, right? As I recall, just a couple of lines. That 27K is probably 10%, which is their standard increase. Here's the thing. They ONLY consider homes within the tiniest radius from your home. You would think that all of Kingwood, more or less, would be comparable, but that's not how they do it. They pulled up comps (not real estate comps but the ones on their Harris County tax pages online) and those were the only valid comps, to them. Like .2 miles from your house. They presented that as a sort of trump card -- a-ha!! See?? This house is just .2 miles from you and has a value of $... and this one is just .4 miles and here's the value.We had asked for comps from our real estate agent, but those aren't what they go by.
 
 
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HollyHobby Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 1:23pm  
Curios, my protest is  Thursday, what page are you referring to?

@Steven H:  It's on their website and is the home values/market values on the Harris County website. They do NOT accept real estate comps in their considerations. LMK if you don't find it and I'll hubby when he gets home.
 
 
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mommyof5 Active Indicator LED Icon 2
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 1:24pm  
We were going to use them a couple years ago but they kept saying they were missing forms we emailed, faxed and mailed them and we kept sending the forms they claimed they were missing we ended up missing the deadline. So we just file our own, last year we got a nice reduction this year We got Ours lower than last year. We will never hire someone to do it 4951
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Ray Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 6 years ago   May 30, '17 2:26pm  
I have been using them the last 20 years. FAR better than putting up with the BS and doing it yourself. Well worth it IMO 4951
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