Ownwell- protest property tax. Is this company legit?

[Allen Wu]

All - received a marketing mailer today for my SA properties. They essentially protest your property tax and then you just pay 25% of savings. Is this legit? Or is this company a scam?

[Keaton Frieberg]

Clients of mine have used https://hometaxshield.com/ and been fairly happy with their services. They do the same thing as the company you posted about. 

[Sattir Bitti]

Quote from @Allen Wu:

All - received a marketing mailer today for my SA properties. They essentially protest your property tax and then you just pay 25% of savings. Is this legit? Or is this company a scam?

 I received similar mail from them. Did you do your protest through them? 

[Alex K.]

I am curious as well if these type of companies provide any value?  I filed a protest on my own and got it reduced a bit....

[Manju Nat]

Did you end up using ownwell? I'm considering using them this year

[Kristi K.]

@Manju Nat

I got the same mailers on several properties and the value that they said my properties were worth were no where near accurate. I personally protest my own using the CMA data my realtor provides for free and have had very good success over the years.

[Manju Nat]

I think the market value is higher than my tax assessed value so that might not help me.

[Steve Tse]

Has anyone had any success with Ownwell.com ?

What do they charge if they are not able to reduce your taxes ?

[Jeff Stone]

Quote from @Steve Tse:

What do they charge if they are not able to reduce your taxes ?

Their 25% fee is based on the actual property tax savings.  If they aren't able to reduce your taxes then they don't get paid.

I assume they are selective about which appeals they will take on since there is no benefit to them or the homeowner to not be able to win an appeal, but I have no knowledge of their internal business logic.

[Ellen Cheng]

As of this year, Ownwell also charges a $100 property tax freeze fee. So, for example, they reduced my taxes by $126 this year but I paid more than that because the 25% plus $100 freeze fee added up to $138 (but at least the assessment is frozen for the next two years).

[Steve Tse]

@Ellen Cheng

What kind of personal info did you give up to Ownwell for them to protest on your behalf ?