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Absolutely, continue paying until notified otherwise by your local tax authority. It will be reflected in your property tax invoices.

Our service for data gathering, analysis, review and document generation can take as few as 5 to 15 business days, depending on the homeowner's scenario and their responsiveness. After Filing the Appeal, local tax authorities and may move faster through an informal process over a period of 3 to 6 months, or as long as 24 months depending on the case. In the event the wait is 24 months or longer, you may be eligible to receive a lower opinion of value until your case is heard. The sooner you file, the sooner you'll satisfy the administrative requirements that open the door for pursuing court actions.

We do not offer legal services nor legal advice. We recommend seeking a licensed attorney if you have specific scenarios or legal concerns you'd like to explore.

Denial is a possibility, but the good news is that win or lose, you have satisfied the key condition of a CA Court of Appeals ruling, stating that PACE property owners who first "exhaust all administrative remedies" (aka, File an Appeal) are then eligible to pursue court actions to seek relief. The courts offer a much wider range of judicial consideration, whereas local tax administrators are narrow in their scope and authority. Prior to the 2023 Court of Appeals ruling, most PACE court claims were being dismissed. That's different now (see Morgan vs Ygrene).

PACE stands for Property Assessed Clean Energy (more familiarly known by financing programs operating under the PACE legislation, infamously known as: HERO, Ygrene, CalFirst, and PACEFUND (among many others). In short, it was government sponsored subprime lending, deceptively pushed on homeowners by unqualified troops of door-to-door contractor sales reps. With a simple e-signature on an iPad, homeowners were mislead into 20 year, 9%+ interest rate loans levied in the form of a tax assessment. Not to mention this was at a time when mortgage and other lending rates were at all-time lows, but the facts weren't clear and many homeowners got pushed aside with no recourse or path for relief, even for the most egregious of wrongful lien cases. Senior citizens on fixed incomes have lost their homes, yet local government agencies were resistant to helping, and still are. Fortunately for a recent ruling by the CA Court of Appeals, CA homeowners have a path forward - first through the local Appeals process, then no matter the outcome of their Appeals ruling (win or lose), homeowners become eligible to seek relief through court actions; whereas they were unable to proceed with their cases before the 2023 Morgan vs Ygrene ruling.