Property Taxes Sucks!

[Sam Leon]

It's property tax time again.

I don't have many properties, so far including my primary residence I have six.  But the property tax bills add to more than $20,000.

On the bright side, it's still less than my insurance.

So my question is, I have seen those ads where you hire someone and they go and try to get the property taxes reduced, if there is a reduction you pay them a fee if there isn't you owe nothing.  They claim a high success rate.

Does that really work?  How does it work?  Can one do it yourself?  and if it does work, does it get "depressed" that one year only and next year it's back and you have to do it again?

In order to save a few pennies to pay for my property taxes, I will be eating ramen noodles for dinner tonight.