Greater New Orleans · Property Tax Appeals
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The Representative
Karas Realty Advisors Ltd. handles property tax appeals and real estate tax matters across the Greater New Orleans area. Paul Karas has been doing tax appeal work since the Great Recession, the last time valuations were in this much flux, and became a credentialed valuation expert in 2016.
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Here Is The Bad News
If you are new to property valuation, there is no shortage of content out there, and no way to know which of it applies to your parcel. You find out when you appeal on your own, which costs time and money. So the consultation is free. In one call you learn your deadlines, whether a refund is even possible, and what is worth pursuing.
Property tax is different from the rest of real estate. If you do nothing, you guarantee your result: no reduction.
The Free Consultation
A simple fact finding procedure. By the end of it you know whether you have a deadline coming, a possible refund, or nothing worth chasing this year.
The essentials: which properties you are responsible for, and where each assessment currently sits.
How to look up the dates that matter in your jurisdiction, so nothing lapses while you decide.
How to judge whether the current assessment is defensible, or whether the record card is simply wrong.
What an appeal actually requires, and what happens after it is filed.
Where the results usually come from, and which evidence tends to move an assessor.
If no appeal is warranted, you hear that. We can always circle back next year.
Where To Start
Every engagement starts the same way, with a free consultation to find out whether there is an opportunity at all.

One to four units. Your assessment reviewed against the property record card, then appealed if the numbers do not hold up.
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Five units and up, plus industrial. Income and market evidence assembled, filed and argued on your behalf.
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A fact finding call: your properties, your deadlines, whether an appeal is even worth filing this year.
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Processes and arguments built over years of appeal work, so the filing is streamlined and the argument is already tested.
For agents and investors, property tax is one more real conversation to have with a client, and one more reason they call you first.
Current data, current strategy, and a direct read on whether your case is worth filing.
The data sources, reports and subscriptions a credible appeal needs cost hundreds on your own. They come with the engagement.
Fit
Property owners at any level who want to understand property tax appeals, and owners who would rather hand the whole thing over.
Straightforward pricing, no gimmicks. The fee is a share of the first year of tax savings, so we are paid when you save.
Free Consultation
If you do nothing, you guarantee the result: no reduction. Find out in one call whether you have a case.
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