Everything we know about assessments, appeals, and keeping your tax bill honest — written for homeowners, not assessors.
Appeals 101 · Featured guide
Step-by-step guide to protesting your Colorado property tax assessment — from the Notice of Valuation to the assessor protest, County Board of Equalization, and beyond.
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Fundamentals
A plain-English breakdown of the three numbers behind every Colorado property tax bill — with a worked example showing exactly where your money goes.
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Appeals 101
Wrong square footage, phantom bathrooms, ignored condition issues — the most common reasons Colorado homes are taxed on inflated values, and how to spot them.
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Strategy
Comparable sales, condition documentation, record corrections — how to build a property tax protest that assessors and county boards actually accept.
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Policy
From the Gallagher Amendment's repeal to assessment-rate cuts, value exemptions, and split school/local rates — what Colorado's recent property tax changes mean for homeowners.
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Savings
A plain-math breakdown of what a Colorado property tax appeal is actually worth — how a lower assessed value turns into dollars off your bill, every year, for the whole two-year cycle.
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Deadlines
The Colorado property tax appeal calendar — Notice of Valuation, the assessor protest deadline, Notice of Determination, County Board of Equalization, and the later appeal steps — with what to do at each stage.
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Fundamentals
The real reasons Colorado property tax bills jumped — the 2025 reassessment, rising home values, mill levies, and the end of Gallagher — plus what you can actually do about it.
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Exemptions
How the Colorado senior homestead exemption works, who qualifies, the disabled veteran exemption, and how exemptions stack with a successful assessment appeal to cut your bill further.
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Appeals 101
How Colorado property tax appeals differ by county — deadlines, assessor portals, and local quirks across the Front Range and Western Slope — and how to start an appeal anywhere in the state.
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Strategy
A practical guide to finding and choosing comparable sales (comps) that actually win a Colorado property tax appeal — the right time window, what makes a comp count, and the mistakes that get cases denied.
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Appeals 101
A line-by-line guide to your Colorado Notice of Valuation (NOV) — what each number means, the difference between actual and assessed value, and the steps to take before the protest deadline.
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Free analysis from your county's actual records — see your tax-bill history and what an appeal could save.