Got the full yearly 10% again in 77018

You and I are in the same boat

Up 9%

713_Ag said:

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13% increase in 77096. Filing our Homestead Exemp now, so that should drop it 20% right? Can I also fight the appraisal with the exemption?

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1) If you didn't own the house on 1/1/2020, you aren't eligible for HE this year. You will file HE this year, but it won't go into effect until 1/12021.

2) That's not how HE works. HE does not affect your assessed value as reported by HCAD. SOME (not all) taxing authorities will use your HE to lower the amount that they base your tax bill on. For example, if your house is assessed at $100k, some taxing authorities will use HE to only charge taxes on $80k. But as I said, not all tax entities give the full 20% "discount", and some give no credit at all (meaning you pay tax on the full assessed value).

Flat in 77055

0% in spring branch. They upped the land and dropped the improvement.

Up 12% in 77450.

Ours went down 3% on a two year old home in 77007

Up 21% in 77008. Had a similar increase last year and successfully protested it down to 0%, looks like I'll be fighting again. 100% of the increase in the improvement value, land value stayed flat to last year.

Improvement value up 10% in 77043.
Land value flat.

0.0% in 77019

Still going to fight it down because those pig f***ers at HCAD screwed me last year.

Up 6% in 77024.

I also tried to iFile today and it said my account wasn't eligible. Never had that message before.

2.9% in 77079, and luckily well under the sales price from last summer.

Land up almost 10%. Improvement over 20%. **** this will be a *****.

77598

Dang I think you're winning so far. Did you remodel last year?

I put down new flooring in all upstairs and stairs themselves. Also a new back fence.

Didn't know that was worth so much.

Up 3.6% in 77005.

Up 20% in 77007.

We listed for approximately 11% above last years appraisal and house is under contract for 8% above.

It's been a crazy month so praying hard the sale still goes through.

Up 4% in 77450. Improvement value went down but land value went up over 25%

No change in 77450 but several of my neighbors got max increases. Fought and won last year with a slight reduction so guess they decided to leave me alone this year.

What's a "max increase"?

Up another 8.5% in 77008.

Up 23% total in two years.

Dropped 7% in 77018. Improvement drop which is interesting

I think it's time to finally start fighting back with someone other than my wife and myself.

Last year we did hours of research and had a rock solid case for our house to stay as is, but they basically completely disregarded it and stayed with the 13% increase.

Any recommendations on who to use to fight this for us?

E said:

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Got the full yearly 10% again in 77018

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11%+ in Shepherd Park Plaza

Diggity said:

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What's a "max increase"?

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10% on the appraised/homestead capped value.

For this conversation, is that a useful number? The market value is all that matters.

Diggity said:

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What's a "max increase"?

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I believe the max is 10% and is what I am considering the max.

Diggity said:

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For this conversation, is that a useful number? The market value is all that matters.

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I think a lot of people are referring to the number. I agree market value is all the matters because the "appraised" value will go up 10% every year until it reaches market.

Seems to be a consistent trend in 77008 - 9% increase here.

I get what you're saying. I just think we need to make sure people use market value. Otherwise, we have no method of comparison.

Diggity said:

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I get what you're saying. I just think we need to make sure people use market value. Otherwise, we have no method of comparison.

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This issue bit me when I first moved here because I didn't realize appraised and market could be different (previously lived in a county where they were always the same).

The first couple of years I lived here, my market value increased by a lot more than the appraised value. I think even at least one year, my market value went up but my appraisal value didn't change at all. I ignored it because I thought all that mattered was the appraised value, since that's what taxes are based on.

Then I got a big increase in one year to bring appraised up to market. I protested and got both values lowered, and that's when I finally understood why you want both values to be the same.

Diggity said:

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I get what you're saying. I just think we need to make sure people use market value. Otherwise, we have no method of comparison.

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I agree, when I see 10% mentioned it makes me think people are only looking at the appraised value. Besides market value is what you protest.