Property Tax Assessment Adjusters, LLC is a property assessment reduction firm that specializes in single family homes and condominiums. We help the homeowner in the process of review and appeal of an assessed value for property tax purposes.

• Our office starts with a detailed analysis of comparable home sales in your neighborhood to accurately estimate the current market value of your home.

• With this opinion of value, we complete all necessary paperwork and submit it to the appropriate county office in accordance with county and state law.

• We handle all communications with county appraisers that call and negotiate on each individual property.

• We then keep track of the appeal or review submission and maintain communication with the homeowner until final resolution.

We also actively notify homeowners when:

1. When your Agency Authorization form and check are received and processing begins for your application.

2. The county requests additional information.

3. The county reduces the assessed value of property.

4. When, if necessary, we file an Assessment Appeal on your behalf.

In summary, our objective is to achieve an assessment in the best interest of the homeowner, and we guarantee a reduction in assessed value or your money back.

We pre-screen for eligibility, and send a letter to everyone we believe we can help. Please look for our letter in the mail.

Yes, consumers who feel their assessed value for property tax purposes is too high may challenge the assessment on their own. We know how valuable your time is, so PTAA provides an all-inclusive service for this low upfront fee. We will initially submit an application for review of assessment with your county assessor's office. If this review is unsuccessful, we will file an application for appeal of assessment on your behalf, which may result in an over the phone negotiation or in person hearing in front of your local assessment appeals board which we will attend on your behalf. If this is unsuccessful, you are eligible for a full refund.

The sale value of a home is set by the market. This process will only lower the assessed value that is used by the county to determine the property tax you will have to pay.

Your current assessed value is located on your current property tax bill.

This is located in the top right corner of our letter, and also on your tax bill.

This form is required by the county assessor's office for us to work on your behalf.

Please submit the agency authorization form (page 2 of our letter) and payment to our office by the date provided on the letter. We must adhere stringently to the county deadlines, and require 1-2 weeks before the county deadline for us to perform our analysis and prepare the necessary paperwork. Please refer to your local assessor's office for official deadlines. The deadline on your letter may be well before this deadline; however, the earlier you get the agency authorization to us, the earlier we will submit your application to the county assessor's office. The specific county deadlines are as follows:

The fiscal year for property taxes begins July 1st and ends June 30th the following year. When submitting during the review period, the application applies to the following tax year. When submitting during the appeals period, the application applies to the current tax year.

If the county assessor determines that the market value of your home has increased, the county may reassess your property at a higher amount for the following year. If at that time you feel they have reassessed your value too high, you may contact our office and we will be happy to see if we can help you again for the next tax year.

According to Proposition 13, the county may raise your assessed value back to the 'trended base value', which is the price you originally paid for your house, plus 2% per year. Below is an example of a property purchased for $500,000. During a three-year period, the real estate market declined and recovered. The property owner filed for a decline-in-value reassessment. The following table shows the trended base value of the property, the market value of the property, and the assessed value of the property.

Source: Los Angeles County Assessor's Office website

Review: We process your application and submit the necessary paperwork to the county roughly 1-2 weeks after receiving your agency authorization form. The county normally takes 8-10 weeks to review the application and provide a response for an application for review of assessed value, but it may take up to several months. The county assessor's office tries to get these review applications done before the new fiscal property tax year, July 1st.

Appeal: Appeals normally take longer, as they may require an over-the-phone negotiation, called a 'stipulation' or an in-court hearing in front of the Assessment Appeals Board. The county legally has up to 2 years to respond to an application for appeal, but most respond in a few months. Any savings will be credited to you retroactively. No matter how much work is required, we will never charge you more than our initial low upfront fee.

We will inform you as soon as we receive information from the county, and you can always contact us by email, phone, or postal mail with inquiries.

We will notify you of progress by email unless you prefer to be contacted by postal mail or you have no email address. Please be sure to provide your email address on the agency form.

No, as part of our low upfront fee, PTAA will attend a formal Assessment Appeals Board hearing on your behalf, if necessary. However, by law, the Assessment Appeals Board will send the homeowner a notification of hearing. We also get this same notification and will attend if necessary. Please note that most appeals will be negotiated and resolved before the hearing date, and it is likely that attendance will not be necessary. If you plan to attend the hearing, please contact us to ensure that your assessed value has not already been reduced.

Yes, always pay your current property tax bill on time, even if you have a review or appeal application submitted.

Yes, PTAA also does work for commercial properties, however our fee schedule is different. Please contact us with a commercial property inquiry.

We accept checks, cashier's checks, or money orders, payable to Property Tax Assessment Adjusters, LLC.

Please notify us in writing of any change in address, and we will ensure to send all communications to your new address.

PTAA can perform work for all the single family residences and condominiums you own. Contact PTAA via email at questions@ptaaonline.com with the APN and address of each residence you would like PTAA to consider. We will mail you an agency authorization form for each property eligible.

Before mailing to you, PTAA did a preliminary analysis of your property and determined that we could save you money on your property taxes. Your property tax is based on approx. 1.1% of your assessed value.

The amount we can save you depends on the difference between your assessed value and the current market value of your home. For example, if your current assessed value is $50,000 more than the current market value of your home, you could save approx. $550.00 in property taxes for the next tax year. If we do not reduce your assessed value, we will refund your fee in full. After receiving your signed agency form and fee, we will perform a detailed analysis of your property and submit our findings and substantiation to the County Assessor for reevaluation. We will not know the exact amount you will save until we have completed the analysis and negotiated with the county for a reduction on your behalf.

We think we can save you money based on a preliminary evaluation of your property. We do NOT mail to everyone.

Our refund policy is available directly from our Policies page.

PTAA is a privately owned California Limited Liability Company (LLC).

PTAA is based in San Diego, California, but we do business throughout the state of California.

This information is also available directly from our Contact page.

No, we are a private California Licensed LLC that provides a service in assisting homeowners in the process with the county to reduce the assessed value of their property. We offer a full refund if your assessed value is not reduced. We are also licensed with the city of San Diego to do business - Certificate #B2008006939.

PTAA is a proud member of the Better Business Bureau. For more info, please click here.

Key members of PTAA were leaders in helping reducing assessed values of property for thousands of homeowners in the 1990’s. In 2007, in response to the downturn in real estate values across the county, PTAA has been formed to provide residential property assessment services to aid homeowners in reducing the assessed value of their property.

Please send us an email at dev@ptaaonline.com with your APN# and your request to be removed from our mailing list, and we will ensure that you will not receive any further mailings from us. You can also send us a written request to our mailing address, or call us. Please refer to the contact page for contact information.