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Old 04-17-2016, 02:00 PM
 
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I just purchased a new investment property on April 12, 2016 and want to protest the property value completed by HCAD. My question is: Can I protest the property taxes in the same year that I purchased the house or do I have to wait till the next year to protest?


If I can protest, how do I protest without the Ifile info and account number since this was sent to the previous owner and I am yet to be named on HCAD and probably wont be named until after the May 31st deadline? If I contact the previous owner are the obligated to give me that information?


Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you for your help in advance.


-BRCRKG
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Old 04-17-2016, 03:34 PM
 
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Mail in form is at http://www.hcad.org/pdf/41-44.pdf. Regardless of what it says on HCAD, you should be able to protest as long as you can show the deed was recorded. HCAD takes a while to get all of the data from the County Clerk's office into their online system.
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Old 04-17-2016, 05:50 PM
 
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Does the HCAD show a market value more than what you paid?
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Old 12-08-2016, 03:42 AM
 
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I just purchased a new investment property on April 12, 2016 and want to protest the property value completed by HCAD. My question is: Can I protest the property taxes in the same year that I purchased the house or do I have to wait till the next year to protest?


If I can protest, how do I protest without the Ifile info and account number since this was sent to the previous owner and I am yet to be named on HCAD and probably wont be named until after the May 31st deadline? If I contact the previous owner are the obligated to give me that information?


Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you for your help in advance.


-BRCRKG
I am in the same exact boat as you. Did you file a protest? Any tips or lessons learned?
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Old 12-08-2016, 04:23 AM
 
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I believe that you have to be the record owner on January 1 of the year. If you purchased after Jan 1 but before the protest deadline, then ask the previous owner to assign the rights to protest the eval to you. There is a form for the owner to authorize a professional firm to protest such as O'Connor. This is the simplest way that I can think of.

If you are asking this now, then the deadline to file a protest probably had past.
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Old 12-08-2016, 09:22 AM
 
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I believe that you have to be the record owner on January 1 of the year. If you purchased after Jan 1 but before the protest deadline, then ask the previous owner to assign the rights to protest the eval to you. There is a form for the owner to authorize a professional firm to protest such as O'Connor. This is the simplest way that I can think of.

If you are asking this now, then the deadline to file a protest probably had past.
Yeah, that's what I figured. Just want to get my ducks in a row for next year. I guess will just hand it over to Bettencourt.
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Old 12-08-2016, 09:35 AM
 
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I'm going ahead with a formal judicial review on mine. HCAD did not reduce it under normal methods and i'm the highest value house on the street by $20k+ and not even the biggest square footage on the street. I don't understand how they think that's OK.
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Old 12-08-2016, 10:02 AM
 
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I'm going ahead with a formal judicial review on mine. HCAD did not reduce it under normal methods and i'm the highest value house on the street by $20k+ and not even the biggest square footage on the street. I don't understand how they think that's OK.
What is a formal judicial review?

Mediation? Lawsuit?
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