2017 DFW County Appraisals & Assessments Thread (Irving, Denton: home, schools, property tax)

[Katana49]

I think a lot of us in the northern suburbs are going to be pleasantly surprised by how little, if any, increase has been assessed. I think they are afraid of a greater percentage of homeowners protesting. We all know how much prices have increased in reality, and so does the tax assessor's office, but I bet they are wary of pricing too many people too high and having us all complain and protest.

[stephwin]

Originally Posted by Katana49

I think a lot of us in the northern suburbs are going to be pleasantly surprised by how little, if any, increase has been assessed. I think they are afraid of a greater percentage of homeowners protesting. We all know how much prices have increased in reality, and so does the tax assessor's office, but I bet they are wary of pricing too many people too high and having us all complain and protest.

I've honestly been very surprised at the small amount of people in my neighborhood that even bother protesting. We've been in our house 7.5 years and I know for a fact that the people on either side of us have never protested, despite their values going up anywhere from 5-10% every year. I feel like everyone complains about it, but no one bothers to actually protest or follow through with providing evidence.

Whenever I've protested in the past either online or in person, the CAD's offer has always ended in "000", so $450,000 as an example when it was $462,711. Using that numbering format, I searched all 2016 values and there were only 18 (mine included) out of 188 houses in my phase in my neighborhood. So less than 10% of people protested and were offered a settlement. I was told once that they will typically offer you something for just protesting, even if you don't have much backing up your claims.

[TurtleCreek80]

Originally Posted by Aggielina

Far North Dallas - no change. I'm shocked! Since it's valued just a little bit over what we paid for it three years ago, I'm going to keep quiet. Nothing to look at here...

We are in North Dallas with no change this year - after a 10% increase last year! I spotted checked around our neighborhood and Preston Hollow and looks like 2017 values are flat unless the house was renovated this year.

UP values looked to be flat to 2016, too.

[BigDGeek]

Originally Posted by octo

Mine went up 25%. DCAD. Homestead -> capped at 10%.

I'm wondering if it makes sense to protest? I plan on building an addition this year so the 10% cap won't apply next year and it will be appraised "from scratch" next year.

I don't think I can get it down below the capped value so with the new addition coming, would it even make sense to try to protest this year?

No idea; I wish I could help but this isn't my area of expertise. I'm sure other posters will chime in though.

[stargirl007]

Originally Posted by Katana49

I think a lot of us in the northern suburbs are going to be pleasantly surprised by how little, if any, increase has been assessed. I think they are afraid of a greater percentage of homeowners protesting. We all know how much prices have increased in reality, and so does the tax assessor's office, but I bet they are wary of pricing too many people too high and having us all complain and protest.

Yes, I'm in (barely) West Plano and they only gave us a 5% increase. We had a 17% increase the year before. As of today, our valuation is 15% higher than what we bought our house for. I'll take that.. not bad at all if they think our house only has increased in value 15% in the past 3 years, especially when the city has come to inspect some of our improvements.

[serger]

Originally Posted by Katana49

I think a lot of us in the northern suburbs are going to be pleasantly surprised by how little, if any, increase has been assessed. I think they are afraid of a greater percentage of homeowners protesting. We all know how much prices have increased in reality, and so does the tax assessor's office, but I bet they are wary of pricing too many people too high and having us all complain and protest.

Well, my went up about 12% last year (after electronic protest) and is up about 7% this year. So I'm going to do the online for sure, this time probably based on unequal appraisal or whatever they call it. I personally don't think it can sell for what they claim, but that's a different story.

[Laminate7]

Originally Posted by Katana49

I think a lot of us in the northern suburbs are going to be pleasantly surprised by how little, if any, increase has been assessed. I think they are afraid of a greater percentage of homeowners protesting. We all know how much prices have increased in reality, and so does the tax assessor's office, but I bet they are wary of pricing too many people too high and having us all complain and protest.

up 10% in Frisco again *sigh*

max increase and not pleasantly surprised

[stephwin]

I looked up my childhood home in Prosper. The appraised value has increased 58% since 2014. How is that even realistic? And this is a small 3/2 home built in the mid-1980s with no updates. Even though it is on 1.5 acres, it has power lines running through part of it that render the land useless as you can't build anything underneath it.

And I thought my house going up 45% since 2010 was insane.

[oldoak2000]

Originally Posted by stargirl007

Yes, I'm in (barely) West Plano and they only gave us a 5% increase. We had a 17% increase the year before. As of today, our valuation is 15% higher than what we bought our house for. I'll take that.. not bad at all if they think our house only has increased in value 15% in the past 3 years, especially when the city has come to inspect some of our improvements.

It's ALWAYS worth it to file to protest;
tip - every house 'depreciates' year after year (look at your appraisal when you bought (used) home.
Is your AC unit, dishwasher, range/oven, waterheater, roof, flooring, siding, brick, driveway, sidewalks... NEW ? if not, why pay taxes as though it was. Take pics of EVERY little blemish, print 2 copies in color, and haul a stack of papers in there - also print out copies of any nearby comparative properties that are valued lower- go in there with a huge stack of papers, speak real slow and deliberate going over every detail, and they'll BEG you to accept a lower appraisal just to get you out of there . . . !!!!

IF you do NOTHING (this year), it will STICK ( with almost NO chance to drop it next year to the new value), and NEXT year they'll hit you AGAIN, and again, and again, always going up up up.

[Acntx]

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