We bought a house last year. The market value came in under what we paid for the house. I understand that if they came in over, I could just take my closing papers and get it knocked down to what we paid, but now I'm wondering if I should get a little greedy and see if I could get them to go even lower through protesting.
On our old place, the last 3 years I put down for an in-person informal hearing (vs. iSettle), but still received an email offer each year that I ended up accepting. I'm thinking that if I do the same here, I may get an email offer to knock a bit more off, and in the event I don't get a lower offer, I'll just decline the emailed offer (if one comes) and then withdraw my protest before the informal hearing.
Am I playing with fire trying to get a bigger reduction and should just take the win and be ready to fight next year once my sale is off the table? Or is there low risk to my plan?
I didn't get my notice until April 19th, so I have a few more days before my protest deadline hits.