Why and How to Use Property Tax Reduction Consultant Reviews

Posted by Jill Noelle Olandria on Apr 12, 2017 11:30:00 AM

Dozens of websites offer property tax reduction consultant reviews written by property owners and tax lawyers, among others. These reviews are useful for people who want to find the best property tax consultants for their wants and needs. Their services are considered crucial in achieving a favorable outcome for property owners during the administrative and judicial phases of the assessment appeal.

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Why Read the Reviews

A few reasons to read these reviews:

  • Get information about the tax consultants working within your area. You will likely want a tax consultant within driving distance from your home or office for obvious reasons. You may be able to communicate via emails, calls and texts but face-to-face interactions may also be important to you.

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  • Determine the tax consultants that can address your needs and wants in the profession. You may, for example, want a tax consultant with specialization in the tourism industry.
  • Pick the tax consultants with satisfactory to very satisfactory performance according to their past and present clients. You should look beyond the professional qualifications of these professionals into their personal work ethic. You want a tax consultant that you can actually work well with and gets good results.

The bottom line: Be sure to read the property tax reduction consultant reviews first before hiring a consultant. These reviews should be part of your selection process including considering the education, training and success rate of the consultants.

How to Read the Reviews

These property tax consultant reviews are a dime a dozen. You must then be careful about using these reviews for your own needs for various reasons. You will find that many of them are self-serving reviews, such as made by bogus persons to promote the tax consultants.

A few tips in reading these reviews are then necessary in separating the wheat from the chaff:

  • Read reviews from reliable sites only. Better Business Bureau (BBB), Angie’s List, and Yelp may have these reviews so start with them.
  • Check that the reviews cover both the positive and negative aspects of the tax consultants’ practice. These aspects should include the prompt delivery of services, reliable information provided to clients, and favorable outcome of the appeal.
  • Decide whether the positive aspects address your needs in the services and the negative aspects are within your tolerance level.

Basically, you have to be wary about property tax reduction consultant reviews that swing to the opposite ends of the spectrum – too positive and too negative. Your best bets are the fair reviews from real people, but how do you know these are legitimate reviews? Some sites, like Yelp, will only show reviews from registered users of the site that are following other reviewers and being followed for the quality of their reviews.

Conclusion

In the end, reading the property tax reduction consultant reviews is just one part of your selection process. You should put a premium on the tax consultants’ education, training and experience, as well as their area of specialization, states they work in, and appeal success rate. You can then factor in their professional and personal work ethic, particularly as these apply to their client interactions. 

After doing all of these steps, you will find that Fair Assessments are among the best property tax reduction consultants in Georgia!

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