Texas Property Tax Protest Success

[Jason C.]

Hey there!

Is anyone in Texas having much luck with their property tax protests? If so, who do you use or do you handle the protest yourself?

When I say "much luck" I'll give a couple of examples of what I saw last year. I used a firm out of Houston that works in all TX counties. I am getting less than 1% reduction on my properties after protesting, and it seems like I should be getting better results.

Example 1-Bexar County, TX Appraised at 104,870, final value $104,000.

Example 2-Travis County, TX Appraised at $171,031, no reduction

Example 3-Bell County, TX Appraised at $92,635, final value $91,051

Example 4-Coryell County, TX Appraised at $48,850, final value $47,482

In most cases, I get a reduction but it's in the neighborhood of 1K so I'm saving like $20 and then I pay a fee for the protest work, so net I'm saving about $10-12. On some properties, I get nothing.

Anybody getting significantly better results?

Thanks!