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Welcome
Thank you for taking the time to explore Iowa Assessment Advisors. We are dedicated to providing Iowa homeowners with a fast, easy and affordable solution to protest their property assessment that could result in lowering their property taxes. The mission of Iowa Assessment Advisors is to help Iowa homeowners who feel their property assessments are high, prepare and provide all the proper material necessary for the County Assessor to lower the assessment. Our commitment to our customers is that we will refund all charges if their assessment is not lowered except for a $50 administrative fee.
Iowa Code, Section 441.37 (Protest of assessment—grounds) allows that any property owner taxpayer who is dissatisfied with their property's assessment may file a protest with their county's board of review on or after April 16, up to and including May 5, of the year of the assessment. However, Section 441.21, mandates that the burden of proof shall be upon any property owner attacking their valuation as "excessive, inadequate, inequitable or capricious" by offering competent evidence that their assessment is too high.
How We Can Help
In Iowa, assessments are re-evaluated every odd-numbered year using real estate sales transacted during the prior calendar year. In 2007, assessments were adjusted using values calculated based on sales in 2006, which was a much better year for real estate sales than 2008. In its 4th Quarter 2008 RealTalk newsletter, the Polk County Assessor stated, “A common perception is that the real estate market has crashed, and that property values have spiraled downward. Thus many people may assume their assessment will be lower in 2009 than it was in 2007 (when the last county-wide revaluation was done). However, for most property owners, that will not be the case.” Of course, the particular challenge faced by Iowa’s county assessors in 2009 is that the market value for many properties has been reduced substantially due to the soft real estate market the past several years, which means that their assessed values should be adjusted comparably. Iowa Assessment Advisors, Inc. is a company of experienced local Real Estate professionals dedicated to helping Iowa’s home owners assemble, prepare and submit the right information for the sole purpose of lowering property assessments.
Assessments in Iowa can be contested from April 16 through May 5. That’s less than three weeks, which is not a lot of time. However, Iowa Assessment Advisors, Inc. is ready, willing and able to help. We will examine the data on your property, research the three different ways to protest your taxes, find suitable comparables and prepare all forms and supplemental forms for your protest. Finally, we will send you everything you need to protest your property assessment. All you will have to do is review, sign and submit by one of two ways: by fax or by mail (Fax submit does not apply for Story County)!
