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Montgomery County · MCAD · The Woodlands / Conroe

Montgomery County property-tax protest packet

The Woodlands, Conroe, and other Montgomery County owners protest with Montgomery Central Appraisal District (MCAD). KeepTheCut is a $99/year DIY evidence packet. You file. We do not represent you, negotiate, attend, or file for you.

Get my packet — $99/year

Same $99/year packet. You file with MCAD.

What this is

A $99/year DIY packet. The owner files.

KeepTheCut sells a document packet so you can protest Montgomery County yourself. We are not a registered property-tax consultant under Texas Occupations Code Chapter 1152. We do not represent you, negotiate with MCAD, attend informal conferences or ARB hearings, take a power of attorney, or file Form 50-132 for you. We do not guarantee a reduction. County appraisal districts — not KeepTheCut — set the values on notices and bills.

Official MCAD

File with Montgomery Central Appraisal District.

MCAD’s owner path is Online Protest when the Notice of Appraised Value includes an Online Protest ID. Start at mcad-tx.org. If there is no Online Protest ID, use Form 50-132 and mail or deliver it to MCAD in Conroe — not the county tax office and not the Comptroller.

  • Appraisal district

    Montgomery Central Appraisal District

    MCAD · The Woodlands / Conroe

    Official MCAD website

  • Comptroller forms

    Form 50-132, Property Owner’s Notice of Protest

    Use Form 50-132 (counties with population greater than 120,000). All KeepTheCut launch counties qualify. File with the appraisal district, never with the Comptroller.

    Form 50-132 (PDF)Comptroller protest instructions

The math

Agents bill a cut of the save. We bill a document.

About 3.00 million Texas protests were filed in 2024 (3,004,940), from Comptroller figures compiled by O’Connor.[1] The market is real. The fee structure is the fight. These are other companies’ published figures, not KeepTheCut results.

Ownwell (their figures)

25%

of first-year savings in Texas, per Ownwell’s own cost-breakdown writing.[2] They market ~$774 average annual savings[3] and other Ownwell pages cite ~$606 median.[4]

25% of $606 is about $152 — more than $99.

O’Connor (their terms)

~50%

of first-year savings. O’Connor’s site: pay half of first-year property tax savings; they file and attend the hearing.[5]

Half of $606 is about $303.

KeepTheCut

$99/year

per property. You file. You keep 100% of any savings. SquareDeal DIY comps are $69[6] — we charge more because the packet includes the filing worksheet, county portal steps, and deadline-reminder workflow.

SquareDeal has published Harris County figures claiming a 2025 DIY median assessed-value reduction of $20,640 versus $13,202 for agent-represented protests. That is their claim from their dataset, not a KeepTheCut finding, and it is not a prediction for your house.[7]

Other launch counties

How to file yourself · October tax bill · Property tax bill · October bill-shock · Share pack

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Sources

We cite other companies’ published figures. We do not adopt them as our results.

  1. 1.About 3.00 million Texas property-tax protests filed in 2024 (3,004,940), from Texas Comptroller data compiled by O’Connor. Source
  2. 2.Ownwell markets a 25% contingency on first-year savings in Texas (rate can vary by region on Ownwell’s pricing materials). Source
  3. 3.Ownwell homepage markets “$774 avg annual savings” among its advertised customer results (not a prediction for your home). Source
  4. 4.Ownwell’s Texas protest guide cites an approximate $606 median annual savings for a typical successful protest in major metro counties. Source
  5. 5.O’Connor & Associates states clients pay half of first-year property-tax savings (about 50%). Source
  6. 6.SquareDeal DIY comps reports are priced at $69, with a money-back policy if there is no reduction (SquareDeal’s terms, not ours). Source
  7. 7.SquareDeal’s Harris County analysis claims a 2025 DIY median assessed-value reduction of $20,640 vs $13,202 for agent-represented protests. That is SquareDeal’s claim from their dataset, not a KeepTheCut finding. Source
  8. 8.Texas Comptroller: how to protest, Form 50-132, and typical May 15 / 30-days-after-notice deadline. Source
  9. 9.Texas Tax Code §41.47: the ARB generally may not set a protested appraised value higher than the value in the appraisal records submitted by the chief appraiser, unless the owner requests and agrees. Exceptions exist for certain exemption and special-appraisal disputes. Source
  10. 10.Texas Occupations Code Chapter 1152 regulates property-tax consultants. KeepTheCut is not a registered property-tax consultant and does not represent owners. Source