FAQ

No. Unlike others who provide this type of service, our service is very personalized. We do not use generalized information to process your appeal. We focus on your particular property and its unique qualities and condition. Where others who provide this service can prepare 5 to 10 appeals in one hour, it takes us 4 to 6 hours to prepare one appeal. That is not because we are slower – it’s a difference of in-depth preparation.

If your value is not frozen from a prior year’s appeal and your value is too high, then an appeal should be filed.

If your property has been fairly assessed and therefore a strong case for a reduction cannot be found, your property should not be appealed. 

If you have a homestead exemption on your property, an appeal may or may not achieve significant tax savings, depending on the County, jurisdiction, date you purchased the property, and the types of exemptions that have been applied to your property. 

We would be happy to review your property and answer any questions pertaining to a possible appeal. Please contact our office using the Contact link at the top of this page.

We currently file appeals in the state of Georgia.

We take your appeal all the way through the Board of Equalization hearing, unless we are able to negotiate an earlier settlement.

Together we have decades of experience filing property tax appeals and getting great results. We are acquainted with the County personnel that will be involved in your appeal and we have successfully worked with them on numerous cases like yours – we have won tax appeals like yours at both the BOE level and in the Superior Court.

Yes. The notice of assessment is required by law to be sent to you no later than July 1st of each year.

Yes. Your initial appeal is to the Board of Tax Assessors. If they do not agree with your stated value, they can send you a counter offer (new assessment value) or they can forward your appeal to the Board of Equalization.

Hire us or follow the instructions on the notice of assessment that was sent to you by the County. Filing an appeal is not the hard part – successfully handling the appeal is where “difficulty” makes its first appearance.

Yes. You have 45 days from the date of the notice of assessment that was sent to you.

Yes. You can bring as many as you like to the BOE hearing, but they will only look at three – don’t ask us why, we think more is better – especially, if “more” would show a trend – but that’s just us – they only want to see three.

Yes. That is a legal requirement.

The sale date of each of your comparables should be in the year preceding the year of your appeal.

Common sense rules here – first try to get them from your neighborhood and if that is not available, then as close as you can – the closer the better – but be prepared – the BOA does not always play by common sense rules – they have often gone as far as 2 miles away from your property to find a sale that supports their “value” even if there were plenty of lower value comparables that could have been taken from your neighborhood.

Yes. You have a statutory right to appeal to the Superior Court. We can file that appeal for you and represent you before the Superior Court but that exceeds our responsibility under an engagement we may have had with you for an administrative appeal. A separate engagement letter is necessary for us to represent you in the Superior Court.

No.

Yes. Our fee is the same.

When you hire us, YOU ARE DONE! We handle the preparation, hearing, everything… you just need to sit back and relax!

You are not required to bring a professional appraiser with you to the BOE hearing; however, the County will have a professional, licensed appraiser there to represent the County’s position against you.

No. You are not required to have an appraisal prepared by a professional appraiser but the County will have, at the BOE hearing, three professionally prepared appraisals to be used against you.

Each Board of Equalization has three members (judges) that hear your appeal and make a decision as to the value of your property.