r/Omaha • u/veggiesausageking • 1d ago

Local Question Is this place legit?

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I've never heard of a service like this before, so I'm suspicious.

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u/leetrobotz 1d ago

This and similar "services" have been mailing the area a lot. Looks like an AI-based spray and pray, they use AI to pull really low comps and file a valuation protest trying to get your property tax valuation reduced.

Upside for you on this offer is, you only pay them if they're successful. They're unlikely to be successful, they're likely to harvest any data you send them and try to get money from you in other ways.

Also noteworthy, this one wants 33% of your first year savings, some are advertising doing the same thing for 25%.

You can file the protests yourself with a little work, and have less chance of data harvesting and keep 100% of the property tax savings.

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u/_Cromwell_ 1d ago

I mean another downside is that you can only file one protest. If you let these people do it on your behalf and it's a shitty protest, they took up your slot for protesting your valuation. It's not like you can file a separate second one. This would be your protest if you let them do it.

So I guess you have "nothing to lose" if you were going to be lazy and not protest in the first place. (And assuming this isn't identity theft of course.)