Built by an attorney who reads the fine print for a living

Every number that decides your property tax appeal is sitting in a public record. What the county thinks your home is worth is in the parcel file it publishes. What it thought last year is in the prior file. What nearby homes sold for is recorded with every deed. And the deadlines that make or break an appeal are printed in the statutes. None of it should require an account, a fee, or a phone call to find. So this site pulls the counties' own data and explains the appeal routes in plain English, with the statute cited so you can check my work.

Every factual statement traces to a source you can open yourself. Values come from county parcel data published through MetroGIS, with the last-verified date shown on every result. Deadlines cite Minnesota Statutes chapter 274 and section 278.01. Where the data has limits, and it does (some counties publish values without an assessment-year label; recorded sale prices say nothing about a home's condition), the site says so next to the number, not in fine print.

MN Property Tax Buddy is not a law firm and I'm not your lawyer: reading this site does not create an attorney-client relationship, and the guides are education, not legal or tax advice about your property. The site is not an appraiser, not a county office, and not affiliated with the State of Minnesota, MetroGIS, or the Metropolitan Council. The assessment figures shown are the counties' published records and can lag your mailed notice; the notice controls.

The site is free for homeowners and always will be. If you ask to be connected with a property tax professional, we may be compensated for that referral; that is disclosed on the form, in the privacy policy, and here. What we will never do: sell your lookup history (we don't keep it), shade a number to make a form convert better, or pretend data proves more than it does.