It seems to be a proven fact that once the population reaches a certain level a state income tax is not far behind. It just takes getting the right people in office. The disease is spreading.

Take pictures of anything that devalues your home. Say you have a small crack in a wall or garage floor. Take that pic so it looks real bad and plead your case. Any cracks outside like, grout in a brick wall or anything like that. Show a couple pics when you plead your case and save some pics for next year. From the mouth of an appraisal district employee (not me) "take pictures"!!

This can actually work out well for us olds. Valuations effectively frozen for much of the taxes and authorities reducing rates due to much higher valuations. Helps reduce the pain of terrible CD rates.

As bad as I hate to say it ours is probably fair. We could see the house for around $100k higher than the appraisal. Also the smaller house across the street sold at the end the year for higher than our appraisal. We would not be able to win any protest.

Housing Bubble isn't going to pop... with all of the people relocating to Texas from liberal states things are only going to increase. You add in all of the home investors like Open Door and people just blowing money to move, it is going to grow. Hike in interest rates might slow somewhat, but what we are seeing now I think will continue for the next 5-7 years.

Again, local government and appraisal districts are not supposed to be for-profit enterprises. They aren't supposed to try to capitalize on exploding housing markets, or anything else, to see how much money they can extract from citizens. A lot of people are reeling financially from inflation but no corresponding increases in pay. Is this supposed to be public service in any way, shape, or form?

We are all rich according to our taxable property value.

I AGREE ,, THE bust I talk about is , MORE HIGH priced homes than ppl with DEEP pockets .. ... like your friend and many I know ..hope I'm wrong ..

Interesting fact. Just got mine today. My home has gone up 178% since 2017.

All 4 of our went up, but they are still assessing them slightly less than market value. I contested one a few years ago. It was easy, did it over the phone and they lowered it.

This only works in Rockwall County if you obtain repair estimates. A few years ago when protests where handled by the appraiser the process was a whole lot easier. Since they have gone to the 3 jerks on the board it has gotten a lot tougher to win. When I protested based on a neighbors house that is the same with the exception of his improvements the 3 jerks told the appraiser that his value was too low and to raise it. I slammed the door on the way out. Last year I won based on the highest foundation repair estimate I got but they would not reduce it for other things where I did not have estimates. I have tried using a service but the ones I called wanted a flat fee because of the value of my house. I think they did not want to deal with Rockwall County.

I bought my home new 4 years ago...I could make 300k on it now. I'm thinking of selling and a rental and buying when it tanks again.

The "market value" of your homestead can go up by any amount, but the increase in taxable value (i.e. appraised value) is limited to a 10% increase per year.

So suppose your homestead was appraised at $200,000 in 2021, and the appraisal district decides that the 2022 market value is now $300,000. Your appraised value is capped at 10% of the previous year, so it goes up by $20,000 ($200,000 x 10%). So your 2022 appraised value is $220,000.

When you get hit with 10% increases for several years in a row, it's rather like being pecked to death by chickens.

Being pecked to death by chickens is about the best analogy of property taxes I’ve ever heard.