Any Houston area folks have an absurd property tax appraisal?

Prayers for your wealth.

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I find this hard to believe as if the house sales, the jurisdictions use the sale price as the value 99% of the time. And even if it’s true, your taxable value can only go up 10% per year.

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I’m not sure how any of that works. I feel like I got a good deal on the property and got it below market value.


It’s actually 37% above what I paid for it.

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Market value is what you paid for it

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I’m going off the 2024 tax market value off the statement I got. I paid around 15% less than the 2024 market value according to the statement.

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Now you get to find out why holding onto property for it to appreciate SHOULD include increased property taxes, increased water district costs, increased insurance (both rate hikes and then adjusted rate hikes to cover the cost of repairs, etc. to match the new 'value', not to mention HOA dues which have never, ever in history gone down.

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Well yes that needs to be considered but I’m not going to throw away 4k to 5k per month to rent for the next 30 years and walk away with nothing. When that stuff goes up for landlords the rent also tends to increase.

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Do yourself a favor. Go to OWNWELL.COM. Sign up with them. They handle your property tax appraisal appeals. The fee is 25% of tax savings.

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Or just contest it and show the value is what you just paid for it 3 months ago for free.

Those companies are scam adjacent. You can contest it yourself with about 3 hours worth of work

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Property tax is nearly 10 percent of my income.

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I would guess nearly 25 to 40% of our income goes towards taxes when you factor in all with holdings on your paycheck, property tax and sales tax.

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Pretty sure I’ve seen you on here running your mouth like you some kind of baller and you don’t know how prop tax assessments work? Color me shocked

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I remember when everyone on the OT was a baller but the government has cut our nuts off. I had to sell my Rolex to buy eggs two months ago.

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Lived there for years. Place sucks.

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I actually like it. I had the option of the Woodlands, Porter, Spring, Conroe, Montgomery, Magnolia, Kingwood, Tomball and Atascocita.

Spring was best for the commute for the wife and I’m in sales so I’m a little more flexible.

I found a couple neighborhoods with under a 2% property tax rate with 1 acre lots in that area and I chose the one with the lowest at aorund 1.57%.

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You can contest it yourself with about 3 hours worth of work

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If this was a recent purchase, he has a chance. But if it's anything like Fort Bend, he has zero chance in the future. Even to me, the insufferable, the bullshite that came out of FBCAD's mouth was astonishing. When presented with 50+ pages of comps of neighbors (as in people on my street, including my direct neighbor), charts from the Houston Chronicle, etc., I got fed lines such as, "market value is not indicative of assessed value." All comps built within 2 years of each other, etc. Oil crash, tens of thousands of layoffs, f it, up 10%! They have a budget to meet for useless shite like cricket complexes & gondolas in Sugarland (for me), and the never ending black hole that are the school districts.

Unfortunately, a lawyer is probably his only hope starting next year.

OP, just imagine all the people that escrow that won't "know" their assessed value is going to cause their taxes to spike 10% each year because they have their tax statements sent directly to the escrow company and don't bother to look them up in a timely fashion. Thanksgiving surprise!