House Value and searching

Now that the MLS monopoly is supposedly finally broken, check out ZipRealty, RealQuest (division of First American CoreLogic), and Zillow.

But who has the time to do property tax protests themselves?

• http://www.assessmentadvisors.com/ (35 to 50%)
• http://www.cutmytaxes.com/isignup.asp/ (50%)
• http://www.propertytaxprotest.com/ ($299.. a better deal if expecting savings is over $299*2/tax_rate. Tax_rate for Richardson is around 0.022 including homestead).
  
• http://www.texasprotax.com/ (Austin)