Florida property tax appeal guides
Short, practical writeups on the FL VAB process, the DR-486 form, and the statutes that govern your petition.
Step-by-step Florida VAB petition walkthrough: TRIM to magistrate decision. DR-486, comparable sales, hearing, deadlines, statutory citations.
Field-by-field walkthrough of Florida's DR-486 VAB petition form. Petitioner, parcel, grounds, evidence, agent authorization, signature.
How to pick comparable sales that a Florida VAB magistrate will actually accept: use-code matching, radius, time and size adjustments, exclusions, weighting.
Florida VAB special-magistrate hearings demystified: who is in the room, order of operations, evidence rules, burden of proof, and decision timeline.
Plain-language definitions of every term that shows up on a Florida TRIM notice or DR-486: just value, assessed value, Save Our Homes, VAB, magistrate, DOR use codes.
The August Notice of Proposed Property Taxes, decoded: what each section means, where the appeal deadline is, and what the notice does not tell you.
When to use comparable sales, when to use income capitalization, and how to reconcile the two in a Florida VAB petition. Cost approach briefly covered.
Florida property-tax appeal deadlines side-by-side: 25-day VAB window, 60-day circuit court, 4-year refund claim, 3-year back-assessment, TPP timeline.
The statute anticipates pro se filing. The hearing is short. Here is what to prepare, what the standard is, and when you actually need an attorney.
The Florida property tax cycle is statewide, but TRIM mailing and VAB deadlines vary by county. Lien date, preliminary roll, hearings, final-roll certification.