property tax is ridiculous. How do I lower it?

[Paul Kit]

Hi Folks,

If the property tax deemed ridiculously expensive and I want to appeal the county to lower it, Can I delegate this task to a third party?

If so, Is there any company out there that doing this?

[Brian R.]

Is this a commercial or residential property?

I got the 2019 proposed value of one of my residential properties (a 20 foot by 130 foot vacant lot) cut in half this year.  I had to go to the board of appeal and equalization meeting that took place in May. It was made of the city council members and the property assessor for the county.  I explained why I thought the proposed value was too high. A few days later the assessor came out and met with me at the property.  About a week later he called me and said yep, we are lowering it to this value, which was less than the 2018 value.

If I didn't agree with his new value, I could have appealed that to the county board, then to tax court.