Build the 12‑slide appeal your assessor can’t wave off.
Most homeowners walk into a hearing with a Zillow printout. You’ll walk in with a parcel record, an adjusted sales grid, a uniformity study, and a documented value conclusion — the same structure that has won real reductions.
Free to build · pay only when you export · you file it yourself and keep 100% of the savings
The appeal itself is three steps — and most people never reach the third.
If you have never done this before, here is the shape of it. The names and the dates change from county to county, but the sequence almost never does.
- 1
Put the appeal together
This is the part you do here: your parcel record, adjusted comparable sales, a uniformity study and your own photographs, assembled into one document you can hand to anybody.
- 2
File it for informal review
In much of the country this is an upload, not a meeting — you submit the deck with your supporting documents and wait for the assessor’s office to answer. A great many appeals end right here, with a revised value in the mail.
- 3
Only if you need to, ask for a hearing
If the informal answer doesn’t satisfy you, you can take it to the board and walk them through the same deck in person. Most people never get this far. The ones who do arrive with their argument already written.
Every one of those steps has a date attached to it, and no two counties agree on what the dates are. Enter your address and we show you yours — your deadline, the form your jurisdiction uses, and whether the informal review can be filed online without you appearing at all.
Four steps, about forty minutes.
You supply the numbers off your assessment notice, photographs, and what you know about your own property. Everything that is arithmetic gets done for you.
Enter the record
Copy the appraised land and improvement values, square footage, lot size and notice date straight off your notice. We flag the errors worth attacking.
Run the numbers
The sales grid adjusts each comparable for size, age, lot and condition. A separate uniformity study compares your assessed dollars per square foot to your neighbors’.
Document the story
Guided prompts for build quality, deferred maintenance, and site constraints — the arguments that move an assessor once the arithmetic is on the table.
Export and file — usually without appearing
Download an editable PowerPoint and a print-ready PDF. We show your deadline, your form, and whether your county lets you submit the informal review online. In much of the country it’s an upload, decided on the documents — you never stand in front of a board.
A value conclusion, not a complaint
The deck ends with a specific number and the reconciliation behind it. Boards grant reductions to people who tell them exactly what to write down.
Your photographs stay put
The deck is assembled entirely in your browser. Photographs of your attic and your plumbing are never uploaded anywhere.
Two honest things.
Both of these come up for nearly everyone who does this, and it’s easier if you know about them going in.
You will spend an hour cataloguing what’s wrong with a house you like
This is the part that catches people off guard. You take pride in your home, and the appeal asks you to photograph the crawlspace, the shimmed rafters and the small 1950s bathroom, and then to argue in writing that the street noise is bad.
That isn’t disloyalty and it isn’t running your house down. The assessor is not asking whether you love it. They are asking what a stranger would pay for original wiring and a lot nobody can build on — and for about forty minutes, answering that honestly is worth real money. You can go back to being proud of it the moment you file.
A good appeal takes work, and nothing automated will get you there
You can buy a generated evidence packet for fifty dollars. It is four comparable sales and a cover letter. A board sees a dozen of those in a morning and grants the smallest adjustment that makes the room move on.
What actually moves a number is the specific stuff: the contractor’s bid on letterhead, the third front setback nobody noticed, the four sales you read and threw back before you found the right ones. We do the arithmetic, the adjustments and the deadlines. The observations have to be yours — that is not a shortcoming of the tool, it is the reason the tool works.
Flat fee. No cut of your savings.
A contingency firm at 35% takes $2,135 of that first-year saving — every year they file.
- Build all 12 exhibits
- Live value calculator
- Your filing deadline
- Preview only — no export
- Everything in Draft
- Editable .pptx + print-ready PDF
- Filing deadline, form and body
- Hearing script and objection prep
- Refunded if your assessment isn’t reduced
- Multiple parcels
- Re-file each year in one click
- Automated record and comparable lookup