How it works
You send an address. We do the reading. You get an answer, and the answer is sometimes that there is nothing here.
How it works
The first three cost you nothing. The fourth only happens if you decide it should.
We confirm the parcel and the taxing jurisdiction. No cost, and no obligation to go further.
Assessed Value, Taxable Value, classification, and the comparable evidence the assessor relied on.
Including when the numbers say there is nothing worth appealing. That answer is free too.
If you engage us, we prepare the case, appear, and review the assessment again each year of the term.
What you might hear back
These are the exact outcomes our system can produce. There is no fifth one, and there is no version of any of them that promises you a reduction.
The property is inside our current service area and the initial information supports a detailed assessment analysis. That is a decision to analyse the numbers, not a prediction about the outcome.
What happens next
We review the assessment record and the comparable evidence, then we reply with the numbers. There is no upfront fee and no obligation.
We need additional property information before the numbers can be evaluated. Until we have it, we cannot tell you whether an appeal would change your bill, and we are not going to guess.
What happens next
We will send a secure request for the specific figures we are missing, usually the assessment notice for this parcel.
The available information does not indicate actionable first-year tax savings. In Michigan the bill is calculated on Taxable Value, and on this parcel a lower Assessed Value would not currently bring that figure down.
What happens next
Nothing further happens, and nobody will follow up to sell you an appeal. If your assessment changes next year, check again then.
Rollworth is not currently accepting properties in this area. We work in seven Michigan counties today, and we would rather tell you that plainly than take your details and go quiet.
What happens next
If you would like to hear when we open your area, you can ask us to tell you. Nobody will call you in the meantime.
The part most people are never told
Michigan calculates your property tax on Taxable Value, not on Assessed Value. They are two different numbers on the same notice, and for most property that has not changed hands recently, Taxable Value is the lower of the two. It is capped, and it rises slowly.
After a successful appeal, your Taxable Value becomes whichever is lower: what it already was, or your new Assessed Value. So winning a reduction in Assessed Value only reaches this year's bill if the value we can justify falls below your current Taxable Value.
If it does not, the appeal is real and the saving is zero. That is not a fine-print exception. It is the ordinary case for a property somebody has owned for a while.
What we check before we encourage anybody
The assessment we can support must be lower than your current Taxable Value.
If that is not true for your parcel, we tell you there are no first-year savings. We do not put you into a follow-up sequence and we do not show you a hypothetical.
There are still reasons to correct an assessment that is wrong — a sale, a transfer, or an uncapping can make today's Assessed Value tomorrow's Taxable Value. But that is a different conversation from first-year savings, and we will not blur the two to keep you interested.
If you decide to go ahead
An engagement is a written agreement, not a form submission. Sending us an address does not create one, and neither does us telling you there is a case.
We are not implementing electronic signing in this phase. When you engage us, the authorisation and the engagement letter come to you directly.
Free initial assessment. No upfront fee.
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