Appealer AI lowers commercial property taxes. You pay only if it works.
We read your assessment the way an appraiser would, check it against your rent roll and recent sales, and file the appeal when the county’s numbers don’t hold up.
Office of the County Assessor
Notice of Assessed Value
- Parcel
- 14-208-0031-00
- Property class
- Industrial / warehouse
- Building area
- 312,000 sf
- Market value
$48,200,000$39,200,000- Tax rate
- 1.75%
- Estimated tax
$843,500$686,000
County capped the $2.94M NOI at 6.10%. Nine Class B industrial sales in the last 12 months traded at 7.50%.
Overpaying by $157,500 a year
Appeals must be filed within 45 days of the mailing date shown above.
Assessors value thousands of properties with one model. Yours deserves a closer read.
Mass appraisal is built for speed, not for your building. These are the errors we find most often, and each one is worth real money at commercial tax rates.
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The cap rate
A single county-wide rate applied to every property in a class. A rate 100 basis points too low can inflate a value by 15% or more.
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The income
Assessors often assume market rent and stabilized occupancy. We use your actual rent roll, your T-12, your concessions and your vacancy.
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The comparables
Sales from a different submarket, a different building class, or a different interest-rate environment. We pull the sales that actually match.
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The building itself
Deferred maintenance, functional obsolescence, low clear heights, an empty anchor box. The county’s record rarely knows about any of it.
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The paperwork
Wrong square footage, wrong property class, missed exemptions, personal property counted as real property. Small entries, large bills.
From notice to lower bill, without pulling your team off their work.
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Send us the notice, or just the address
We pull the assessment record, recent sales, market rents and the jurisdiction’s appeal rules. Add a rent roll and T-12 if you have them. We’ll ask for anything else we need.
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Get a written opinion of value
We run the income, sales and cost approaches and tell you what the property should be assessed at. If there’s no case, we say so, and the review costs you nothing.
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We file and argue the appeal
We build the evidence package, file before the deadline, and handle informal reviews and board hearings, working with licensed local representatives where the jurisdiction requires them.
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Your tax bill goes down
We invoice only after the reduction is final, and only on the savings it produced.
If your taxes don’t go down, you don’t pay us.
Our fee is 25% of the first year’s tax savings. That means no retainer, no hourly billing and no charge for the review. In years two and beyond, while the lower value holds, the savings are all yours.
Here is the warehouse from the notice above, worked through.
| County’s market value | $48,200,000 |
|---|---|
| Value after appeal | $39,200,000 |
| Reduction | $9,000,000 |
| Tax rate | × 1.75% |
| Annual tax savings | $157,500 |
| Appealer AI fee (25%, year one only) | − $39,375 |
| You keep in year one | $118,125 |
Built for income-producing property.
- Office
- Industrial and logistics
- Multifamily
- Retail and shopping centers
- Hospitality
- Self-storage
- Medical office
- Mixed-use
One building or four hundred. Portfolio owners send a property list and we review every parcel on it.
Questions owners ask us
What do you need from me?
To start, just the address or parcel number. For the appeal itself, a rent roll and trailing twelve-month operating statement make the strongest case. We’ll tell you exactly what each jurisdiction asks for.
Can an appeal raise my assessment?
In some jurisdictions the review board can raise a value on appeal. We check that rule before we recommend filing, and we won’t file a case where the risk outweighs the expected savings.
Where does the “AI” come in?
Software does the reading: assessment records, sales data, rent comparables and appeal rules across jurisdictions. That lets us review every property in a portfolio, not just the obvious ones. Experienced people check every opinion of value and argue every hearing.
We already use a tax attorney. Does that conflict?
No. Many clients have us screen the portfolio and prepare valuation evidence, then hand selected cases to their counsel. Tell us how you work and we’ll fit around it.
Is my financial information kept confidential?
Yes. Rent rolls and operating statements are used only to prepare your appeal and are shared with the assessor or board only as part of the evidence you approve.
I missed this year’s deadline. Is it too late?
For this tax year, possibly. Send it anyway. Some jurisdictions allow late or mid-cycle appeals for changed conditions, and we can prepare the case now so you’re ready the day next year’s notice arrives.
Send us one property. We’ll tell you if it’s overassessed.
You’ll get a written answer by email. If we don’t think there’s a case, we’ll tell you why.
We use what you send only to review the property and reply to you. See our privacy policy.