About

About

A free, plain-language library of letters and evidence packets for appealing your property tax assessment.

Property assessments are produced in bulk with imperfect data, so over-assessments are common — but the appeal process is bureaucratic enough that most owners never push back. This site collects the letters and evidence packets that actually move an assessment: record-card requests, factual-error disputes, informal reviews and formal protests, comparable-sales and unequal-appraisal arguments, condition write-downs, and exemption claims — each with what to attach, the deadline to watch, and the argument it makes.

Every letter is a starting template, written to be edited with your own facts and evidence. Property tax is intensely local: deadlines, forms, board names, valuation dates, assessment ratios, and exemptions differ in every state and county, and the deadline on your own assessment notice is what controls. Nothing here is legal, tax, or appraisal advice, and using a template creates no professional relationship.

For help specific to your property, your county assessor's office can explain its process and forms; licensed property-tax consultants and attorneys (often working on contingency) handle higher-value or complex cases; and a licensed appraiser can provide a formal opinion of value.