Texas Property Tax Protest Resources
for Property Managers
📍For Texas Property Managers | Updated March 2025
How Property Managers Can Lower Ownership Costs
🟧 Overview: Help Your Owners Lower Their Tax Bills
Managing rental properties in Texas means staying ahead of rising costs — and property taxes are one of the biggest ones.
Each year, thousands of investment properties are over-assessed, especially since typically they’re not able to qualify for the Texas Homestead Exemption. This guide gives you everything you need to support your owners and strengthen your management value.
As a Texas-based property manager, you’re already helping investors and homeowners protect their properties — but what about helping them lower their property tax bill?
Property taxes are one of the largest costs of owning rental real estate in Texas
At Texas Tax Appeal, we partner with property managers like you to offer property tax protest services that are risk-free and revenue-generating — all without adding to your admin load.
📌 Important: The protest deadline is May 15, 2025 in most Texas counties.
📊 Quick Facts for Property Managers
✔ Texas ranks 6th highest in the U.S. for property tax burden
✔ No Homestead Cap on assessed value increases for rental properties
✔ Investment properties often see inflated taxable values
✔ Most investors don’t protest — or don’t know how
📚 Trusted Resources for Texas Property Managers
We’ve compiled helpful links and official resources to assist you and your clients in navigating Texas property tax laws, exemptions, deadlines, and the protest process:
📎 Texas Comptroller – Property Tax Protest Process
📎 Texas Property Tax Exemptions (Homestead, Over-65, Disabled)
📎 Texas Property Tax Deadlines & Calendar
📎 Texas Property Taxpayer Bill of Rights
📎 Texas Comptroller – Property Tax Main Page
🗺️ County Tax Protest Guides
Use these local resources to see what your owners are up against in your key markets. These pages include market trends, property tax rates, and how to protest step-by-step.
🔗 Fort Bend County Property Tax Guide
Don’t see your county listed, check here for more Texas County specific guides.
🧠 Tips for Rental Properties & Property Managers
📌 Non-homesteaded properties have no 10% cap — values can spike 20–40% in a single year.
📌 Recent purchases are frequently over-assessed due to inflated sale comps.
📌 Older or lightly renovated homes often get taxed like new construction.
📌 Deferred maintenance and condition issues aren’t reflected unless you protest.
📌 Protesting doesn’t raise values — CADs are not allowed to increase values due to appeals.
📌 Offering tax reviews builds owner trust and positions you as a proactive manager.
📌 We provide everything you need to offer this as a value-add service.
🤝 Streamline Tax Protests Across Your Entire Portfolio
Want help managing tax protests for your owners? That’s exactly what we do.
From individual owners to full portfolios, we make the protest process easy, accurate, and completely hands-off.
🏘️ Example:
An owner in San Antonio had a rental property valued at $325,000.
After our successful protest, it was reduced to $280,000 — lowering the tax bill by $990.
That adjustment significantly reduced the owner’s annual property tax burden — improving cash flow without any upfront cost or time commitment on their part.
As a preferred partner, your company is credited for bringing this value-add solution to the table, strengthening client trust and retention.
🤝 Partner With Texas Tax Appeal
✅ Full-service property tax protests — start to finish
✅ No upfront fees for owners
✅ 25% contingency fee only if we save money
✅ 10% referral bonus to your company
✅ Co-branded or white-labeled materials
✅ Owner-ready sign-up forms & flyers
✅ Seamless integration with your vendor model
📬 Let’s Get Started-— Before the May 15 Deadline
Want to become a Preferred Partner or discuss how to roll this out to your clients?
🟧 We handle the entire appeal process — start to finish
🟧 No upfront cost to owners — we only get paid if they save money
🟧 Your company can offer this as a vendor service or white-label
🟧 We’ll give you branded sign-up links, flyers, and owner materials
🟧 You can refer owners one at a time — or send your entire portfolio at once
🟧 Optional: Your company earns a referral bonus on successful savings