Own a Texas rental property, duplex, or investment home? You can protest your property taxes just like homeowners — and without a homestead cap protecting you, protesting is even more valuable. TaxAppeal: $89 ready-to-sign kit.
Non-homestead investment properties — rental homes, duplexes, multi-family units, vacation rentals, land, and commercial-residential properties — are assessed at full market value each year with no annual increase cap. There is no 10% homestead protection. If the appraisal district decides your rental property increased 25% in value, your taxable value increases the full 25%. This uncapped assessment exposure makes the protest process even more valuable for investors than for homeowners.
The same comparable sales evidence that works for homestead protests works for investment properties. However, investment properties have an additional argument available: the income approach. For income-producing properties, the appropriate market value can also be argued based on net operating income and market capitalization rates. While this approach requires more documentation, it can be highly effective for multi-family or commercial-residential properties.
At a 2.5% effective tax rate, a $30,000 over-assessment costs an investor $750 per year — every year the property is held. On a 10-year hold, that is $7,500 in unnecessary taxes paid. A single $89 protest can recover that ongoing annual loss. For multi-unit investors, the stakes compound: an investor with 10 rental properties each over-assessed by $20,000 is paying $5,000 per year in excess property taxes. TaxAppeal prepares one protest kit per property at $89 each — total cost: $890, annual savings: $5,000+.
TaxAppeal USA prepares Texas property tax protests for investment properties with the same flat $89 fee per property as homestead protests. Investors with multiple properties can order a kit for each one. We check each property first, then pull its CAD record, build the comparison, fill in Form 50-132 and mail you a ready-to-sign kit with a return envelope addressed to the appraisal district. You sign each one and mail it before the deadline. No percentage fees. Every dollar saved is yours.
We check first. If an appeal will lower your bill, we mail you a ready-to-sign kit for $89 flat. You sign it and mail it, and you keep 100% of your savings.
TaxAppeal USA is a self-service document-preparation service. We prepare a ready-to-sign appeal kit and mail it to you; you sign it and mail it to the county yourself. In every state we serve, including Florida, we are not property tax consultants, agents, or representatives, we do not provide tax or legal advice, and we do not file appeals or represent customers before any appraisal district, board of assessors, board of equalization, value adjustment board, or review board. Every appeal, protest and petition is prepared for the property owner, signed by the owner, and mailed by the owner in the owner’s name. In Florida your petition is signed by you as the property owner under section 194.011(3), Florida Statutes, and the county’s Value Adjustment Board filing fee is paid by you directly to the county. TaxAppeal USA does not sign as your representative, does not appear before the Board, and does not present evidence or argument at a hearing.