Monday, January 5, 2009

Tax Fax

SOME AMAZING FACTS ABOUT PROPERTY TAXES
And Why You're Paying TOO MUCH!

  • 60% of Property Owners are over-assessed and pay too much in property taxes.
Are you in this 60%?
If you don't know, keep reading.

  • Less than 2% of Property Owners challenge their property taxes.
Are you a member of this insightful 2%?
If not, keep reading.

  • More than 70% of the resourceful 2% get a refund and annual reductions of
  • 5 - 20 % or more off their property tax bill.
Do you want to be a member of this insightful 2% and pay less?
If so, keep reading; if not, send this to a friend.


If you're like many homeowners, you're OVERPAYING property taxes and you've been doing it for years! A major tax consulting organization conducted a national homeowner's poll and the results were shocking at best: Most homeowners were overpaying property taxes by 5 - 20% That's between $200 and $2,000 per year in unnecessary taxes!

Are you paying too much?
Do you want to reduce your property taxes and save $200 to $2,000 per year while avoiding the outrageous fees charged by professional appraisers and attorneys?


Here are just Nine of the more than Forty Deadly Errors That
Could Be Costing You A Fortune In Unnecessary Property Taxes


How many of these typical errors are costing you hundreds or thousands of dollars a year?

1. Inaccurate property descriptions.
2. Clerical errors.
3. Mathematical errors.
4. Failure to consider needed repairs.
5. Failure to consider value-killers like easements, drainage problems, heavy traffic areas, nearby railroad tracks, freeways or industry.
6. Lower assessments on similar houses in the neighborhood ( by law, taxation must be fair and equitable).
7. Failure to depreciate for negative factors ( age and quality of materials, electric heating instead of gas or oil, shoddy workmanship, cracks or deterioration, chronic defect, high tension wires and toxic waste sites, etc.
8. Failure to recognize decreased value due to slump in the real estate market.
9. Illegal assessments and unrealized exceptions.

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