TurboAppeal – which launched earlier this year, and pitched at Tech.Co’s Tech Cocktail Startup Celebration at SXSWi 2015 – brings together Big Data, analytics, and data mining to create a technology solution that greatly streamlines the property tax appeals process. Typically, consumers must go through a tax attorney in order to sift through all the paperwork and work their way through the appeals process. With TurboAppeal, homeowners simply have to fill out a short form on the company’s website in order to file and process and appeal. In the short, few months since its launch, TurboAppeal has seen more than 4,000 homeowners sign up to use its property tax appeals technology. According to CEO Badal Shah, they’re currently the number one property tax appeal service for single-family homes in Cook County. Because of the success they’ve seen there, they plan to expand their services to Florida later this year. This past February, we interviewed TurboAppeal COO and cofounder John Guidos, where he shared with Tech.Co the significance of property tax appeals and how they can save many homeowners thousands of dollars.
