My dad owns over a million dollars of property in Chicago. You might think the property taxes are pretty expensive for so much real estate, but for my family, that’s not really the case. See, Dad just appeals his assessments with Godfather Joe’s office. He’s gotten over ten reductions on his properties since 2012. Here’s the one I’m most proud of (the pic isn’t too clear, but we went from a $56k assessment down to $31k):
They tried to raise the assessment back up to $41k in 2015, but Joe came through for us again. We got it back down to $32k:
