Home Tax Guide

Nationally syndicated talk show host and consumer guru Clark Howard recently took a question from a woman regarding her property taxes.  Although I may be paraphrasing this somewhat, the gist of her question had to do with a company that offered to reduce her $7000.00 annual property tax bill for $250.00 as well as getting a percentage of her tax savings.

We, at the Home Tax Guide, believe this is a pretty steep price to pay for this service but also understand people’s desire to pay less for their over-assessed properties.  Fortunately, there are more reasonable programs that can assist homeowners on doing this.

Howard explained the concept very well as he gave a history lesson to his audience and told them that past programs dealt primarily with the commercial real estate market.  This is due to the fact that securing an advisor for this was costly and it made sense to do this on commercial properties that were over-assessed as the savings could be very significant.

With the falling residential market, more and more homeowners are seeking relief as the assessors are not voluntarily looking to to bring their taxes down.

We applaud Clark Howard’s addressing of this issue as well as putting light and taking away the mystery on how to get your property taxes reduced.  Knowledge is not power, specialized, applied knowledge is power!