Engaging in a property tax appeal for clients can earn you loads money. Real estate property taxes are sky high and are not going to go away. When you find areas to contest in the property assessment arena, you and your client win. You'll save your client thousands and you'll earn thousands in contingency fees. This is one of the best home based business opportunities that most have not heard of.

A home base business that hones in homeowner property tax reduction is one of the few businesses that will proper in good times and even better in bad times. And when assessments are out of whack, you appeal that property tax!

When you win a property tax appeal you get paid a contingency fee from the client. If you save your client $1,800 you get paid those savings in contingency fees. Generally you spread your fee over 2 or 3 years so the homeowner sees some of the money you saved for them. For everyone, it's a win, win situation.

Nationwide, local and state government statistics show increased hiring's and spending. Government spending is on a upward spiral with little in the way of brakes while private firms are focused on reducing overhead expenses and operating more efficiently to survive. How is government excess paid for? Property tax increases.

State and local governments are in a budget crisis. You would know it when you looked at the payrolls. 338,000 new jobs have been created in the past 12 months. That's far more than the 195,000 jobs in the 12 prior months. Result: many disgruntled taxpaying homeowners.

With the fall in real estate prices, it pays to scan the horizon to see if a potential clients home valuation compares to the assessed price the tax assessor placed on it. All one needs to do compare recently sold homes.

The National Taxpayers Union writes that as many as 60% of all homeowners are over-assessed and not in line with their home value. ("How To Fight Property Taxes" 2004 p.1

What you need to do in this business is finding the value of residential real estate by comparing your client's property with similar sold properties. You'll look for comparable sales or properties in similar neighborhoods that sold for less than your clients assessment breakdown.

It's a good idea to cooperate with the tax assessor. It makes no difference what the tax assessor finds. What counts is market value. The way to reduce your clients property tax is through comparing recently sold homes.

Considering the over abundance of lower market priced comparable home, property tax consulting is an extremely high paying, easy sell business proposition. The cost to get into this home base business is low and the potential profits high.