Be prepared to show a lease, some utility bill, or credit card statement showing you live somewhere else.

You could read 100 books and still need to learn more because certain things must be learned through trial and error.

Quote from @Alan Mills: Yes, I would agree with Chris and Bill, but if you have an option to get around this by putting it inside the house?

They are a horrible company with unethical billing practices.

However, just to set expectations, they most likely won’t make any changes unless there’s a clear error in the valuation.That said, since the $1,000 increase works out to about $83 per month, I’d suggest checking what the market rents are in your area.

I WAS going to say you’d be setting yourself up for a large tax bill on that $200k, assuming investment.

This year I paid around 7k out of pocket which I’m attributing mostly to her error and my naivity.

Quote from @Richard Volkov: Quote from @Bill B.: So the property owner can never sell?

Account Closed I have had tremendous success using direct mail and mailing the owner of record where the tax bills get mailed to.Generally, property management companies don’t pay the real estate taxes so this gets me right to the owner.Targeting wise, I would just do a zip code filtered by unit count using a service like listsource.  

Toss in a month or vacancy, a high repair bill, a remodel or what have you and they are making just as much as you are.