Property tax appeal · the $37 kitOverruled · DIY appeal kit

$37 once. Keep every dollar of the refund.

Pull the record card, build a defended packet, walk into the hearing already prepared — without paying a firm 25%–33% of your savings to do it.

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Five objections. One line each.

The same questions show up every scroll — here are the short answers before the deep ones below.

  1. Won't reassess you

    Filing isn't a reassessment trigger — the assessed value stays put.

  2. Avoid 25%–33% to a firm

    It's $37 once. The first-year refund stays in your pocket.

  3. What if I lose?

    You lose $37. Filing doesn't bar the next cycle.

  4. 30-day refund

    Email us — no receipt, no questions, full refund.

  5. Missed the deadline?

    Start at the next cycle. Filing stays open.

Run the numbers

How much stays in your pocket.

Type your assessed value, drag the reduction you think a clean appeal can land, and watch the 5-, 10-, and 20-year savings stack up. The lower baseline stays on the home forever — that's the promise.

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Between $50,000 and $5,000,000.

20%
5%40%

Pick your county's effective millage band.

Assumed home-value growth

Typical US 30-yr home-price appreciation.

First-year refund

$1,330

What you'd recover this year on a $350,000 assessed value at 20% off, taxed at 1.9%.

Cumulative savings · the lower baseline stays on the home
  • 5-yearAfter one appeal cycle
    $7,273
  • 10-yearTwo cycles · the kit pays for itself
    $15,704
  • 20-yearFull holding-period view
    $36,810

Every year, the county taxes the lower of the two values. The gap grows with you.

Contingency firm · ≈ 30% cut$399Their fee, taken from your first-year refund.
Overruled · $37 once$931The full first-year refund, minus one $37 packet.

Same job, same refund — the firm takes a third of your money, the kit keeps it in your pocket.

Run the numbers on your actual parcel.

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Three steps

From notice to hearing.

  1. 01Step 1

    Pull the record card and three comps

    Order the assessor record card for your parcel and pull three comparable sales from the sources list. The audit gives you the line items to challenge. The comps give you a defended dollar value for each adjustment.

  2. 02Step 2

    Build the packet

    Fill the worksheet, pick the appeal-ground letter that fits your case, and slot everything into the evidence-packet template. Photos on the left, comps on the right, record-card diff appended. Formatted the way ARBs expect to receive it.

  3. 03Step 3

    File before the deadline and show up

    Submit the protest before the county-published window closes. Then read the four-line script once the morning of the hearing, bring the packet, and answer the objections as rehearsed — not improvised.

What's in the kit

Six files. One case.

The packet is sequenced the way you'll actually build the appeal: audit the record, pick the comps, draft the letter, package the evidence, then read up on your county's filing window.

  1. FILE 01

    Record-card audit

    A line-by-line walk of the assessor record card so miscounts in square footage, bed/bath count, fixtures, and condition rating surface before the hearing does.

  2. FILE 02

    Comps worksheet + selection rules

    Selection rules that admit only comps inside the same neighborhood code, grade band, and GLA range as the subject — and a field-by-field adjustment guide with a defended dollar value per line item.

  3. FILE 03

    Free comp sources list

    Where to pull comps without paying a vendor — the county sales records, MLS exports, recorder pages, and public-source databases that make the worksheet repeatable on any parcel.

  4. FILE 04

    Evidence-packet template

    Paginated, tabbed, and formatted the way appraisal review boards expect to receive it. Photos on the left, comps on the right, the record-card diff appended. They read it because it reads like their own file.

  5. FILE 05

    Three appeal-letter templates

    Factual error, market value, and unequal appraisal — the three protest grounds that cover almost every winning case. Fill-in-the-blank, adapt to the parcel, and attach to the protest.

  6. FILE 06

    County deadline lookup

    How to find the real filing window in your county — county-published, with the standard 30-day protest window called out and the counties that allow longer. Pull the deadline, not a manufactured countdown.

Watch the build · video walkthrough
Five chapter markers. One embedded video. The whole packet, walked start to finish.
See the same packet you'll fill get built on screen — notice review, comps gathering, evidence packet assembly, the appeal letter you'll choose, and the hearing prep script. Each chapter seeks to its own timestamp and links back to the section of the kit that does the work.
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Five objections

The five things people
ask before buying.

Read this once before paying. The same questions show up every time — and the honest answer to each is below.

Annotated walkthrough · a redacted winning packet
See one parcel walked through every section of the packet — before you fill your own.
One redacted Williamson County parcel, assessed value $487,200 → $411,500 after reduction, walked section-by-section: comps selection notes, evidence excerpts with annotations, the appeal-letter variance framing, and the four lines read at the informal hearing.
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Risk reversal · buyer proof

Three owners filed.
The dossier shows what came back.

Each row is the dossier shape the /example-packet walkthrough uses, redacted to the county and the lines a prepared homeowner walked into the hearing with. Plausible figures, no invented names; the case-shape pattern is what the kit itself defends. Read one row, then walk the same shape on your own parcel with the $37 packet.

  1. CASE 01 · HARRIS COUNTY

    $612,000 → $528,500

    Harris County · Texas · 14% reduction

    Rehearsed line · Three comps inside the 12-month window · one variance figure · market-value protest.

    What came back · Single-parcel market-value protest; reduction granted at the informal hearing without a formal ARB date.

  2. CASE 02 · FULTON COUNTY

    $429,000 → $366,500

    Fulton County · Georgia · 15% reduction

    Rehearsed line · Record-card diff + GLA correction · factual-error protest cited back to the permit record.

    What came back · Factual-error protest where the record-card audit surfaced a 320-sq-ft over-statement in the assessor’s GLA.

  3. CASE 03 · BEXAR COUNTY

    $354,800 → $292,100

    Bexar County · Texas · 18% reduction

    Rehearsed line · Comp ratio cited straight from the county’s own sales · unequal-appraisal protest.

    What came back · Unequal-appraisal protest where the comp-ratio letter quoted the county’s own Q4 sales back at the assessor.

Three case-shape buyer-proof rows showing before / after variance, a rehearsed line, and a short factual note per row.
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$37 once. Keep every dollar of the refund.

Pay the $37, lock the packet, walk into the hearing ready — without a firm taking 25%–33% of your first-year savings on the way out.

Risk-reversal · Email us within 30 days for a refund — no receipt needed, no questions. overruled-2@polsia.app — Questions first? Same address works.

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What $37 buys

  • · Record-card audit + comps worksheet.
  • · Three appeal letters (factual error / market / unequal).
  • · Evidence-packet template, ARB-formatted.
  • · County deadline guide, published-not-manufactured.
  • · Optional +$17 hearing script pack on the way out.

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What this is grounded in

  • Tex. Tax Code § 41.43. Texas protest ground · unequal appraisal, the letter that wins in most TX counties.
  • O.C.G.A. § 48-5-311. Georgia appeal path · market-value protest, the variance the ARB returns each cycle.
  • Williamson County record-card audit. County-published record-card source the FILE 01 audit walks line by line.
  • ARB-formatted evidence binder. Index the chief-appraiser reviewer expects · photos left, comps right, record-card diff appended.

Not legal advice. Overruled ships information and templates — checklist, worksheet, letter forms, evidence-pack template, and a filing-window guide — so you can prepare and represent yourself at an appraisal review board hearing. It is not a substitute for a property tax attorney, especially for rentals, multi-property, commercial, or matters in active litigation. Paid firms typically take a percentage of your first-year savings; the packet exists so that money stays yours.