Guides
Plain-language reads on property tax assessments, appeals, and the tools around them.
FOR FLORIDA HOMEOWNERS
How to read your Florida TRIM notice
A statute-cited guide to the seven columns, the second-page property values, the public-hearing line, and the non-ad valorem disclosure.
FOR FLORIDA HOMEOWNERS
Save Our Homes: why your assessed value is lower than market
How Florida’s annual assessment cap works, why assessed value can drift below market value, and why that gap may mean an appeal won’t lower your bill.
FOR FLORIDA HOMEOWNERS
Florida homestead portability: transfer your Save Our Homes savings
How the assessment difference moves to a new homestead, including the 3-preceding-years window, the $500,000 cap, upsize and downsize math, and form DR-501T.
FOR FLORIDA HOMEOWNERS
The Florida homestead exemption: do you qualify and how much
Who qualifies, how the base and additional exemptions reduce taxable value, why school district levies are different, and how to apply with your county property appraiser.
FOR FLORIDA HOMEOWNERS
How to appeal your Florida property tax assessment
The statewide process, in plain language and cited to the statutes: the 25-day deadline, the DR-486 petition, the fee, the value adjustment board hearing, the 75 percent payment rule, and when Save Our Homes means you should not appeal at all.
FOR REALTORS
Beyond market updates: how to build long-term realtor client engagement
How a co-branded property tax check sits alongside the tools realtors already run, and what makes an engagement tool actually work.