The deliverable
What's in the packet
Side-by-side comparable analysis
Up to 15 neighboring properties, sorted by appraised dollars-per-square-foot, each appropriately adjusted for effective age — and, where the district publishes them, lot size and its own condition grade (§41.43(b)(3)). The single most damning comparison gets its own page. Your appraised premium over the neighborhood median, calculated to the dollar.
The district's own numbers, against them
Where the county publishes it, we surface the appraisal district's own Equity Indicated Value — its internal equal-and-uniform estimate. When that number sits below what they appraised you at, it's the assessor's own file conceding your value is too high. The one argument they can't rebut without contradicting themselves.
Your district's own numbers, working for you
Where the state's appraisal-district survey covers your county, the packet includes a section built from the district's own published data — how many protests were filed there, how many go through paid firms (so you know you're not alone, and you don't need one), and where available the district's own uniformity study (COD) and equal-and-uniform figures. Their own numbers, used for you.
Homestead exemption audit
If your homestead exemption lapsed (extremely common after a property sale), the packet detects it and tells you exactly what to file to restore it — often worth more in tax savings than the protest itself.
Owner-supplied evidence — often the nail in the coffin
This is the argument the appraisal district cannot see and cannot rebut. Foundation problems, a leaking roof, deferred maintenance, a recent purchase price below the appraised value, adjacent blight, contractor quotes for needed repairs — these are real, depreciating conditions the county has no way of knowing from a desk. The comps prove your value is out of line; your evidence proves why, with a number the ARB has to weigh. There's no counter-argument to a documented defect.
How it gets into your packet: at checkout, an optional guided section asks about condition issues, repair estimates, and your purchase price. We render each one as an itemized, dollar-quantified evidence exhibit inside your packet — and tell you exactly which photos and contractor quotes to attach when you file, so the ARB sees a complete, documented case.
Verbatim hearing scripts
Word-for-word phrases to use during your informal review and formal hearing. Cite the relevant Texas Tax Code sections. Rebut the appraiser's most common pushback patterns. Know what NOT to say.
Filing instructions
Your county's protest deadline, the exact Comptroller form (50-132), and your CAD's phone and mailing address — now on file for all 254 counties — plus the online-protest portal and ARB email where the district offers them. What to expect in the days after.
See exactly what you get
Don't take our word for it. Here's a complete, real protest packet — condition-adjusted comparables, the equity-indicated-value exhibit, the district's-own-data section (protest volumes, paid-firm share, and uniformity figures pulled from the county's published records), the hearing scripts, and filing instructions — all built from public records with the owner's identity removed.
View the example packet (PDF) →
24 pages · illustrative sample · watermarked
On page count
Depth, not page-padding
Some protest reports run 35–40 pages. Look closely and most of that heft is layout: one comparable per page, repeated twenty times. It reads impressive across a desk. It isn't more evidence — it's the same table, spread thin. Our packet puts up to 15 adjusted comparables on a single, board-ready page, then spends the rest of the document on evidence those thicker reports never include:
- Federal market data — HUD Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis and the FHFA House Price Index, showing when your appraisal outran the market the U.S. government itself reports.
- A market-reality check — your appraised value against independent AVM and Redfin ZIP-level medians, with the burden-of-proof challenge (§41.43(a)) the district has to answer.
- A property-characteristics audit — the county's own listed square footage, room counts and features, flagged for §25.25 correction where they're wrong.
- The homestead-exemption audit and the district's-own-data section — evidence built from the assessor's published records, pointed back at them.
Fewer pages. More kinds of proof. Every one of them something an Appraisal Review Board can act on.
