I used to set property values. Now I make them suck less.
I’m David Carpenter. I spent six years inside the Guadalupe Appraisal District. Now I sit on your side of the table, and I read your file like someone who used to write them.
Protests across Texas. Based in New Braunfels. $100 a year plus 25% of what I save you.
Most tax firms read a spreadsheet.
I read the details.
The district values thousands of properties with one model. The model’s wrong a lot. Nobody checks.
I know where it’s wrong because I used to run it. I know which comps a district accepts, which ones it ignores, and which appraiser will actually pick up the phone.
That’s not a pitch. It’s just the job, done by someone who’s seen the other side of it.
The photo everyone scrolled past
A Fredericksburg house had its garage counted as living space. For years. Every firm that looked at it saw a number and moved on.
I zoomed in on a thumbnail photo in the district’s own evidence and saw a garage door.
off the value. The district’s evidence packet is where the errors live.
One house or one hundred. Same guy.
I own my home
Sign up in about two minutes. I file the protest, build the evidence, and handle the hearing. You don’t show up. You don’t fill anything in. I re-file every year.
I own a portfolio
Rentals, commercial, land, a pile of LLCs. You get one person who knows every file, one report back to you, and nobody learning your properties on the morning of the hearing.
Built for owners with more than one tax bill.
National firms push your files through a queue and send whoever’s cheapest to the hearing. I’m a former appraiser who reads every file. That’s the whole difference, and it shows up in the final value.
Portfolio Protests
Every account, every district
Residential, commercial, and land across Texas districts, protested as one book and reported back as one book.
Business Personal Property
Renditions done right
Rendition filing and the new $125,000 BPP exemption, including the related-entity rules that trip people up.
Builders and Developers
Inventory valuation
Section 23.12 inventory filings so unsold product isn’t taxed like a finished sale.
The Weird Stuff
Things other firms won’t touch
Combining tracts into one account, fixing district records, and prior-year corrections where the law allows it.
Hearings
Someone who’s sat on both sides
ARB panels listen differently when the agent used to be the appraiser. I bring paper, not a screen share.
Confidential Accounts
Quiet when it needs to be
Accounts flagged confidential get handled that way, start to finish.
Send me your list of properties. I’ll get every one of them protested, then report back on the whole book.
- Six years as a county appraiserGuadalupe County Appraisal District, 2016 to 2022. I mailed the notices you’re mad about.
- MBA. Texas Business Hall of Fame.Yes, the property tax guy has a business degree. It helps when one client’s book runs past 100 properties.
- The hairTall, blond, sometimes dyed red. The red matches the logo. I’d love to say that was planned.
- The gold sequin tux jacketFor black tie events. It’s the only tux in Texas with opinions about appraisal schedules.
- Based in New BraunfelsLocal guy. Statewide work.
Four steps. You do one.
Enter your address
Sign up all your properties in a couple of minutes. I pull your current appraisal.
I build the case
Comps, equity, and a hard look at the district’s own data on your property.
I file and fight
Filed before the May 15 deadline. I handle the informal review and the ARB hearing.
You pay less
If the value doesn’t come down, there’s no savings to share. I re-file every year.
- Protest filed every year
- Hearing representation
- Online account to track it
- Texas-based chat, email, and text support
- Multi-property and multi-entity
- Commercial, BPP, land, inventory
- One report for the whole portfolio
- Direct line to David
Don’t take my word for it.
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FAQ
Do I have to show up to the hearing?
No. I handle it. You’ll get updates, and the final number when it’s done.
When’s the deadline?
May 15, or 30 days after your notice is delivered, whichever’s later. Sign up now and I’m watching for your notice the day it lands.
Where do you work?
Across Texas. I’m based in New Braunfels, and I protest wherever your property is. Same Tax Code, same process, same price.
Didn’t you work for the appraisal district?
For six years. Now I use everything I learned there for the other side.
What if you don’t save me anything?
Then you pay the $100 and none of the 25%.
Your property taxes suck.
Let’s fix that.
Two minutes to sign up. I take it from there.