Property tax assessment notices, decoded
Your county says your house is worth more. Make them prove it.
Paste your assessment notice. In a minute you'll know what changed, what you're actually taxed on, your exact appeal deadline — and whether an appeal is even worth your weekend. If it isn't, we say so. That part is the point.
Read once, then discarded. Not a law firm. Information, not advice.
What we read
Assessment notices, value-change notices, appraisal-district notices, tax statements — the once-a-year envelope that decides a four-figure bill and gives you a few weeks to object.
The deadline — the hero feature
Every county hides it differently: December 31 in Oregon, 60 days from a mailing date in King County, May 15-or-30-days in Texas. We extract yours and rank it CRITICAL, because missing it ends the conversation.
What you're actually taxed on
Oregon's Measure 50, Texas's homestead cap, California's Prop 13 — in cap states, the headline 'market value' often isn't your tax base, and appealing it can be a waste of a weekend. We decode which number matters.
The appeal ladder
Informal review → board of equalization or appeals → state level. Who hears it, what it costs, what evidence each rung expects — from versioned, source-cited county rules.
How it works
Decode — free
Paste or upload your notice. You get the values as printed, what changed, every deadline, the right appeal body, and findings ranked by severity — each one citing the exact line of your document it came from.
The worth-it check — free
Enter what you honestly think your home would sell for. We run the jurisdiction-aware math — shown, not hidden — and give you a straight answer: appeal, borderline, or skip. If savings are ~$140/yr, we'll tell you to skip it.
The appeal package — $25 flat
Only if the math says it's worth it: the evidence checklist, the property-record-card error walkthrough, a comp adjustment grid structured the way boards expect, your statement draft, and hearing prep.
Built to be on your side — verifiably
Your document is read once and discarded
Processed in memory, never stored, never sold, never used to train anything. We keep payment records and opt-in email signups. That's it.
We never take money from the institutions we critique
No county contracts, no assessor partnerships, no referral fees from tax consultants. Our only customer is you.
Money never changes what the tool tells you
Free and paid users get the identical analysis and the identical recommendation. Payment unlocks action artifacts — never a different answer.
Grounded, or it doesn't ship
Every finding cites the line of your document it came from. Every county rule carries its official source and a last-verified date. When we don't know, we say 'not stated — confirm with your county.'
Honest pricing
The decode and the worth-it check are free for everyone, forever. The appeal package is $25, flat — no subscription, no percentage of your savings, no upsell. Contingency firms take 30–50% of your first year's savings for assembling roughly this packet. You can do this yourself; we just hand you the structure.
And if our own math says your appeal isn't worth it, we tell you to keep your $25. The honest no is the brand.
Start with the free decodeQuestions, answered straight
Is this legal advice?
No. Reassess explains what your assessment notice says and what your county's published appeal process is. It never tells you what you legally should do, and it tells you plainly when your situation needs a real professional.
What happens to my document?
It's read once, in memory, and discarded. Never stored, never sold, never used to train anything. The only things we ever persist are payment records and — if you opt in — your email and county for deadline alerts.
Why is the analysis free?
Because the honest answer for many homeowners is 'don't appeal' — and we refuse to be paid for telling you otherwise. Free and paid users get the identical analysis. The $25 only unlocks the action artifacts: the evidence checklist, comp worksheet, statement draft, and hearing prep.
Will appealing raise my taxes?
In most places a residential appeal can only lower or confirm your value, but in some jurisdictions boards can raise values. Our analysis flags this where our seeded rules cover it — and when your own estimate comes in above the notice value, we tell you to stop and check.
My value jumped 20%. Isn't that automatically appealable?
No — and walking into a hearing with 'it went up 20%' is the classic losing argument. Boards care about whether the new value exceeds what your home would actually sell for, or whether the record contains factual errors. That's exactly what the decode and worth-it check sort out.
What if my county isn't covered?
We seed deeply verified rules for Oregon (Clackamas, Multnomah, Washington), Washington (King, Clark), California, and Texas. Outside those, the decoder still reads your notice and extracts what's printed — and tells you exactly what to confirm with your county instead of guessing.