Assessr

About this app

What Assessr does

Assessr is the pocket workbench for the US homeowner who is about to appeal — or thinking about appealing — their property-tax assessment, and who has decided not to hand 25-50% of the savings to a contingency firm. National Taxpayers Union Foundation puts the win rate for organized DIY appeals at 40-60%. The assessor's office accepts informal appeals; the formal Board of Equalization hearing accepts paper packets; the typical packet is three pages — a comp grid, a photo of one defect, and a one-paragraph cover letter. Almost no one builds the packet because almost no one has a calm tool that walks them through it. Assessr is that tool. No account. No subscription. No deal where the firm keeps a third. Free. What ships in v1: — Property register: each parcel you own — APN, county, current assessed value, market value estimate, your purchase price, your purchase year, square footage, lot size. Multi-parcel from day one. — Comp grid: enter 3-5 comparable sales the assessor used (or didn't), with their assessed value, sale price, sale date, sqft, lot, beds, baths. Assessr computes adjusted $/sqft and ranks them automatically. — Defect log: cracked foundation, deferred roof, water damage, undersized HVAC — every reason the comp-grid alone underestimates the discount you deserve. Each defect with a photo, an estimated repair cost, and a notes field. — Evidence vault: Vision OCR (on-device) lifts text off your assessor's notice, your contractor estimate, an appraisal, a CMA — all stored locally. — Deadline tracker: every state has a different appeal window (TX May 15, IL annual, NY March 1, CA Sept 15, FL 25 days from notice). Assessr ships every one of them in the bundled state catalog. — Cover-letter outline: a calm, three-paragraph structure proven to work at informal review — context, comp argument, ask. — Appeal packet PDF: one-tap export of the comp grid, defect photos, evidence summary, and cover-letter outline into a printable packet you take to the hearing. — Tax history journal: log past assessments, past tax bills, past appeals, past results. The data point that turns a one-off appeal into a multi-year argument. — No 'Pro,' no in-app purchases, no contingency cut. Assessr is for the homeowner who got the notice in the mail this week and has 25-90 days to respond, for the homeowner who suspects they've been overpaying for three years, and for the second-home owner whose out-of-state parcel never sees them in person. Assessr is documentation software. It is not a licensed appraiser, a tax attorney, or your county assessor.