Including the uncomfortable one, which is first.
It can, and we say so rather than hide it. A board reviews the assessment as a whole and is not bound by what you request. That is exactly why we tell roughly a third of the properties we look at not to file: if you are already assessed below comparable property, you are in a good position and an appeal invites a second look. Our verdict says 'do not appeal' when that is the honest answer.
The analysis and the verdict are free and need no account. If it finds you have a case and you want the filled-in document set, that is $10.99 once — not a subscription. A version reviewed by a person is $49.99. We never take a percentage of what you save.
No, and no product here includes filing. Illinois boards of review only accept an appeal from the property owner or a licensed attorney — the Cook County Board of Review's rules state that a person who is not an attorney may not represent a taxpayer before it. So we prepare the document and the evidence, and you sign and submit it as the owner. It is a form and an envelope, not a court appearance.
A firm paid out of your reduction only earns when you file, so it cannot afford to tell you not to. We charge a flat fee for a document, which means saying 'there is nothing here' costs us nothing. It also means that when you do win, you keep all of it.
The Illinois Constitution requires property to be taxed uniformly. If comparable properties near you are assessed at a lower rate per square foot than yours, that is a ground for relief on its own — no appraisal and no opinion of value needed. It is built entirely from figures the assessor published, which is what makes it hard to argue with.
Then you upload your assessment notice and we read the figures off it. Everything else works identically — the comparison, the verdict, the document. A few Illinois counties publish nothing machine-readable at all, and for those the notice is the fastest route.
Roughly 30 days from the publication of your township's assessment roll (35 ILCS 200/16-55). It is not the same date across a county, and Cook runs a rolling three-year township calendar. A late filing cannot be cured, so we will not produce a packet until you have confirmed the date against your own notice.
Not to file on your own home. You can represent yourself, which is what most successful residential appeals are. You should speak to an Illinois property tax attorney if the property is held by a company, a trust or an estate, if it is commercial, or if you are going beyond the board of review to the Property Tax Appeal Board or to court.
Yes, and without explaining yourself. There is a button on the page where you bought it: no reason required, no time limit, nobody to persuade. You keep the document.
It comes from county assessors and county GIS, and we show you which source and which tax year. County data can be stale or wrong, which is one of the things an appeal is for. Every figure is shown so you can check it against your notice before anything is filed — and where we have had to estimate a value because a county publishes nothing, it is labelled an estimate and cannot be filed on until you replace it.
No. The verdict and every figure come from an engine you can audit — medians, ratios, published rates. AI is only used to write the argument in prose, its draft is checked figure by figure against the computed numbers, and it is discarded if a single number does not match. A language model is the wrong tool for arithmetic that ends up in a filed document.
We keep your account, the case you build, and any notice you upload so we can read the figures off it. We do not sell it, we do not run advertising trackers, and you can delete a case or ask us to close your account at any time.