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Need help with your California property tax protest?
Call 713-290-9700 or 1-877-4-TAXCUT or sign up online!
Nation's Largest Property Tax Consultant
Our staff achieves better results than is typical for most firms. Do you expect the property appraiser to fully reduce the value of your property? The market value corrections have been painful enough. You do not have to also pay inflated property taxes.
We have the expertise and the manpower to help you lower your property taxes. In 2008, O'Connor & Associates filed more than 140,000 protests, effectively reducing our client's assessed values by $2.6 billion, cutting their taxes by over $85 million. We will aggressively pursue every legal avenue to protest and lower your taxes:
If you purchased your property since January 2004, it makes sense to appeal your property taxes.
Hire O'Connor & Associates to appeal high property taxes. You pay NOTHING unless we save you money! November 30 is the deadline to protest most accounts in southern California.The exception is Orange County, where the protest deadline is September 15. For us to represent you at the hearing, you must hire us and provide written authorization prior to the protest deadline.
Call Toll Free: 1-800-856-REAL or e-mail our property tax department.
Top 11 Reasons Property Owners Do Not Appeal Their Property Taxes
Property Tax- Frequent Questions
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Property Tax Myths
It's not worthwhile to appeal.
Not true. Our property tax consultants reduce property taxes for most homeowners, businesses and real estate investors every year. If we couldn't reduce your taxes, would we offer a contingency fee offer, with no flat fees and no upfront costs?
Protesting my property taxes probably will not be successful… why bother?
Most property tax appeals are successful. A survey of over 600 property owners indicates 66% of owners who appeal are successful. O'Connor & Associates' property tax consultants reduced property taxes for 75% of homeowners and 80% of commercial property owners in 2007.
Isn't it risky to appeal? What is the downside?
Most property tax appeals are successful and the value cannot be increased at the informal hearing, where most accounts are settled. The assessed value rarely increases at the Board of Equalization. The property assessor must provide advance notice if they plan to recommend an increase. We will carefully evaluate the options if this occurs. However, they rarely provide notice they willl recommend an increased assessed value.
The property assessor will retaliate if I protest.
No. We filed over 145,000 appeals in 2008.
Will the property assessor inspect my house?
Not unless you tell them that your house is smaller than they indicate and they need to measure it. The property assessor is very busy during the property tax appeal season and simply does not have the staffing to measure thousands of houses.
I don't have time to appeal!
Just call O'Connor & Associates. After a three minute phone call, our property tax consultants and support staff will handle your appeal. O'Connor & Associates is providing property tax appeal services in Los Angeles, Orange, Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, Ventura, Riverside, Kern and San Diego Counties in 2008.
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