Property Taxes
We’ve heard it before — after all, when you write about real estate, you do spend a fair amount of time talking about how difficult and expensive it is to pay property taxes: It’s not always easy to be a property owner in Texas. We’ve talked about why property taxes are climbing. But Lupe Valdez, newly…
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Last month, we told you about a service that makes filing a property tax protest a ridiculously simple process. Tuesday, I road tested it myself, and it was even easier than I thought it would be. If you’ve been putting off filing because you’re worried it won’t be worth it, or because the idea of…
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Whenever property taxes are spoken about, residential usually gets the most ink. The reason is simple. The commercial market offers a fraction of the data available to a residential assessor. In the residential world, similar homes are typically clustered together, placing them in the same valuation realm. There aren’t a lot of crackerboxes on Strait…
Read MoreFirst, the bad news: A very important property tax deadline is coming up, and not many people are aware of it. But the good news is that one company has created a way to make meeting that deadline so much easier. PropertyTax.io was developed by Goodrich Realty Consulting, first as a tool for their tax…
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Yesterday morning, the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees met for several hours to review next year’s proposed budget. It ain’t good. And yes, being able to maintain the great strides the district is making is going to cost money that may only be available through a tax ratification election — meaning superintendent Michael Hinojosa is…
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