Thanks Aaron.
jbryan10 said:
I actually ended up a bit dissatisfied with Jullably a couple years ago. It was advertised as an "Excellent" case for whatever their valuation was, but when I bought the data they only had 2 recent sales comps and I found out at the informal that one of them was marked by HCAD as not being valid for comparisons for whatever reason. Thankfully I was still able to reduce it, but not by nearly as much as their "Excellent" case value.
I just started building my own case after that experience. In fact for this year, I built a nice little spreadsheet tool for myself to pull in recent sales comps from my realtor buddy and the HCAD public data (which took forever for me to wrap my head around) for a uniform/equal comparison. I was almost excited about bringing that in to the informal/formal to argue my case, especially if I needed to go to the formal to argue uniform/equal. I would have argued to take off another $5k off what they ultimately offered based on the 98 other houses in my neighborhood within 10% of my sqft.
Exact same for me. The Timbergrove equation must be spot on.Lupac said:
Got my settle offer back from HCAD today as well. I'm in 77008 and the appraised value was 8% higher than last year. I asked for 9% and they gave me exactly that. All I did was upload similar properties from HAR showing list prices this year. Very easy.
12thAngryMan said:
I filed my iProtest a few weeks ago and and got an email this week from HCAD offering an appraised and market value below what I had prior to any increases.
Prior year appraisal = x;
Current year appraisal from HCAD = x + 25,000;
Email offer from HCAD = x - 10,000 (both market and appraised)
I think what they offered in the email was in the neighborhood of the preliminary estimate Jubally calculated. Don't know if I left money on the table or not, but I'm going to look a gift horse in the mouth. Seems like HCAD is ready to make some deals.