Asshole Appraisal District of Bexar County

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Today I took my sister to the Bexar County Appraisal District to contest her property taxes, and boy was it a waste of our time.

This year I protested my property taxes on line and saved a couple hundred dollars, but my sister missed the filing deadline, and she had to go talk to them in person.

Every year they raise our evaluation of our houses, then brag about the tax rate not going up. What a crock of shit. If they say my house is worth $250k, then they should be willing to buy it at that price.

Instead, we have to take photos of everything wrong with the property, and try and convince them that it's only worth $190k. It's a sad world we live in, where we have to tear down our home, to try and save a few bucks, so this city council won't spend another $40,000 on a rainbow cross-walk. Don't ask!

By the time we left there, I had a splitting headache and had to down three Tylenol, just so I could drive home.

I paid off my home when I retired, but I'll never own it cuz the taxes are freak'in killing me. Maybe the people with six kids should pay more in school taxes than people that have never had any kids.

What a concept! Rant over.

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