To file a protest related to your property in Dallas County by mail, simply follow the steps below: If you received your 2020 Notice of Appraised Value from the Dallas Central Appraisal District (CAD) in the mail, you may use the protest form provided on the third page and you can skip straight to Step 5. If you do not have or did not receive a 2020 Notice of Appraised Value, follow all of the steps below.

  1. To retrieve your property protest form, enter the following URL into your internet browser. This opens the Dallas CAD Property Search webpage. http://www.dallascad.org/SearchOwner.aspx
  2. Click the link at the top of the webpage that describes how you would like to search for your property. The options include by “Owner Name”, “Account Number”, or “Street Address”. “Owner Name” searches must be done with your last name. You only need your property address or your name (your account number will not be necessary).
  3. Select your property from the results by clicking on your address.
  4. You are now on your property’s “Residential Account” page. To access the protest form for your property, click on either “Print/Mail Account Protest Form” or “2020 Current Appraisal Notice” (the protest form is the third page of the 2020 Current Appraisal Notice). You may print this form to mail in your protest.
  5. Once you have your protest form handy, it is time to fill it out. An example protest form is shown below. On your protest form, in the middle of the page on the left and right are boxes you may check to select the reason(s) for your protest. Some of the most common reasons for protesting include:


    Value is over market value    : DCAD’s proposed market value for your home is higher than the recent final selling price of comparable homes. If this applies to your protest, you should mark the box on the form, “Value is over market value.”

    Value is unequal compared with other properties: DCAD’s proposed market value for your property is higher than the market values DCAD proposed for other houses that are comparable to yours. If this applies to your protest, you should mark the box on the form, “Value is unequal to other properties.”

    Errors in DCAD data: For example, DCAD may be overestimating your home’s value if the number of bedrooms or other characteristics are incorrect on their website. It is possible more than one of these protest reasons applies, in which case you should check all that apply.

  6. Before you mail your protest, you must include in the envelope any supporting evidence you would like the county to consider for your protest. This may be a simple hand-written explanation. If you wish to receive an informal settlement offer from the county, you must at least include a brief explanation for your protest on a piece of paper in the envelope.
  7. On the line marked “Opinion of Value”, write the value you believe your property was actually worth as of January 1st, 2020 (this is the date the county’s proposed value is for). The county will take your opinion of value into consideration when it makes its informal settlement offer. You must include your “Opinion of Value” on your property to qualify for a settlement offer.
  8. Complete the rest of the lines asking for your personal information. Be sure to provide your signature on the line provided.
  9. Mail your protest to the following address:

    Appraisal Review Board of Dallas County
    Residential Division
    PO Box 560348 Dallas,
    TX 75356-0348

Note the envelope must be postmarked by the June 15th, 2020 deadline.