The Real Scoop on Texas Property Taxes: Notes from the Bullard Town Hall
If you’ve spent any time looking at the real estate headlines lately, you know that property taxes are the number one thing making everyone sit up a little straighter. Between managing our own household and helping clients navigate the Tyler market, keeping up with these numbers is practically a part-time job. So today, Marcus and I decided to get the scoop firsthand. We took a quick trip down to Bullard to attend a town hall meeting with Governor Greg Abbott. For me, these meetings always come with a side of nostalgia. Long before he was Governor Abbott, he was just a kid growing up in Longview, which is where I grew up. Our families spent a ton of time together back then before his family moved away. To this day, my mom still calls him “Greg,” which always makes me smile. East Texas really is a tiny world. Once a Lobo, always a Lobo! The main event of the afternoon was the "Texas Taxpayer Empowerment Pledge" Let’s look at what these proposals would mean for your wallet if ...

