Our Maryland focus

How property taxes, assessments and appeals work vary dramatically between states. As a result, what might be appropriate or effective for a property tax assessment appeal in another state might be very problematic in Maryland.

For example, in many other states, you could argue that your property has an "unequal assessment" compared to your neighbors' properties. In Maryland, however, the law does not allow for an appeal on this basis—your appeal would be summarily rejected. In Maryland, the only argument you can make for an appeal is that your property's market value is less than its property tax assessment value.

By focusing on Maryland, we're able to provide property tax assessment appeal services that are tailored and optimized for Maryland's law, rules and procedures. More critically, we're able to make use of large datasets, specific to Maryland residential properties, which we are able to obtain. This gives us the ability to provide the most comprehensive analyses and best results possible for Maryland homeowners.

Our data analytics infrastructure

Mounting an appeal is challenging, at best, for the average homeowner. On one's own, identifying nearby, similar properties to use as comparables is hit-or-miss and time consuming. Determining which of those are most relevant to use as the basis of an appeal is guesswork. And then accurately adjusting the sale price of each is essentially impossible—how is the average homeowner to know the marginal value of each of the many potential differences between a comparable property and their own?

This is why Property Tax Pros can help. We have built the infrastructure needed to tackle these analytic challenges and make effective assessment appeals available to Maryland homeowners.

In order to help Maryland homeowners who want to appeal their property tax assessments, we have developed:

• Multiple, large databases containing over 500 different pieces of information for each of the nearly two million residential properties in Maryland, which we maintain on an ongoing basis
• Sophisticated computer programs which quickly and accurately perform the thousands of calculations needed to identify and adjust the most relevant comparables, in order to estimate your property's market value
• A computer program and appeal template to instantly generate a well-organized, compelling appeal document (the Pro Appeal) that is ready for you to print, sign and submit to the state government
• A user-friendly, interactive, web-based interface (the Appeal Navigator) which provides instructions and guidance across the appeal process, so you can manage your own appeal with confidence

This analytics infrastructure can be thought of as a cost-effective, shared resource available to Maryland homeowners. For most people, the cost of our Self Service Appeal is less than the value of the time they would have spent attempting to research and prepare an assessment appeal on their own. The added bonus is the Pro Appeal we provide is more rigorous, thorough and effective than what most homeowners could be expected to generate without help. Plus, it comes with the Appeal Navigator to further boost your probability of success.

Our values

When we created Property Tax Pros, we thought it important to explicitly define the kind of organization the company would be. We are committed to:

• Be expert in what we do.
• Be unrivaled in our innovative, effective use of data analytics.
• Be entirely fact-based, objective and honest.
• Provide the highest quality service.
• Constantly strive to deliver greater value to our customers.

Core to Property Tax Pros' highly-data driven approach are rigorous analytics and a consistent commitment to evidence-based objectivity.

All of our work at Property Tax Pros is anchored in these values.