I recently decided to submit a tax abatement form and protest of my home's tax valuation and it worked!

Most counties send out assessments every 2 years and you are given a period of time to protest the assessment in writing, if you are between tax assessment periods you can also send in an abatement request for any year.

The best way to do this is:

1.  Determine if the county's assessment is actually high.  (this is easy to find, ask me!)

2. If it is, send a certified letter to the county listing out your reasons and include comparable sales to back it up.  The comparable sales need to be from the tax assessment period.  

3. Wait for a response!

In many cases, the home is actually assessed correctly, however if you do feel it's high go through the process!  After you send in your protest or abatement request you will receive a letter back with a date and time for a hearing (mine was an online conference) where an arbitrator, a county representative and you each get a chance to present your data.  Then a month or so after that you'll get a formal answer!

In my case, after presenting some sales and what some of my neighbors were paying for taxes they agreed and lowered my value and I'm getting a refund check for the overpayment of 2019 taxes.  

I'm here for any real estate questions you have!  Please feel free to reach out any time.