I have just received an escrow analysis statement, and it indicates that's my property taxes for the year will now be $6,839.

Is the same thing happening in the neighbor's homes? 

It's a fairly unregulated space (charging grandma $750 to puts around for 3 hours, after moving the old box from the horizontal sensor, which was the only problem with the garage door to begin with), so some combination of carefully reading reviews (you have to actually read them to make sure it's not 200 fake reviews), and maybe not giving them the full contract all at once, is in order. 

And again, you'll get advice from posters that could not care less whether you follow it to the "T". 

Are you in the Atlanta Market?

We just have to follow along.

This just seems crazy - must be new councilmembers running the show. 

I listen to the problem solving episodes for the same reasons I read forum posts.

I know many people who own real estate that are not citizens of the US.

We have the highest Realtor count per capita is the U.S.