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Find a Location

Ownwell has 2 locations, listed below.

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    • Ownwell

      1703 W 5th St Ste 650 Austin, TX 78703-5392

      BBB Accredited Business
    • Ownwell

      1639 11th St Santa Monica, CA 90404-3727

    Business ProfileforOwnwell

    Property Tax Consultants
    Multi Location Business
    BBB accredited business

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    4.5/5stars

    Average of 351 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    10 complaints closed in last 3 years

    9 complaints closed in last 12 months

    BBB Rating & Accreditation

    Accredited Since: 3/4/2022

    Years in Business: 8

    Customer Reviews are not used in the calculation of BBB Rating

    Reasons for BBB Rating

    Business Details

    This is a multi-location business.

    Find a Location

    Ownwell has 2 locations, listed below.

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      • Ownwell

        1703 W 5th St Ste 650 Austin, TX 78703-5392

        BBB Accredited Business
      • Ownwell

        1639 11th St Santa Monica, CA 90404-3727

      Location of This Business
      1703 W 5th St Ste 650, Austin, TX 78703-5392
      BBB File Opened:
      2/15/2022
      Years in Business:
      8
      Business Started:
      4/6/2016
      Business Started Locally:
      2/15/2022
      Business Incorporated:
      6/18/2020
      Accredited Since:
      3/4/2022
      Licensing Information:
      This business is in an industry that may require professional licensing, bonding or registration. BBB encourages you to check with the appropriate agency to be certain any requirements are currently being met.
      Type of Entity:
      Corporation
      Alternate Business Name
      • Ownwell, Inc.
      Business Management
      • Mr. Colton Pace, CEO
      • Ms. Caroline Riley, Head of Customer Experience
      Contact Information

      Principal

      • Mr. Colton Pace, CEO
      Additional Contact Information

      Fax Numbers

      • (512) 766-1979
        Primary Fax

      Customer Complaints

      10 Customer Complaints

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      Most Recent Customer Complaint

      06/20/2024

      Complaint Type:
      Product Issues
      Status:
      Answered
      I was initially impressed by Ownwell's claims of meticulous research and local expertise for property tax reductions and suggested it to others.For the context, we get to appeal for tax reduction with county 1 time. Ownwell filed an appeal for my house (******************) with 67 unrelated properties (Attaching PDF). Some of properties used are literally whole **** road / street. Example "NOVARA TRL " or "*************" which is ******* sq ft property compared to my 7800 sq ft house. They even used property "*********************" that was in the opposite side of the city ~25 miles away. If a genuine effort was made by the ****** agent or even generative AI was used, it would have chosen properties that are by same builder, similar size of house and lot and proxomity.I did a 10 minute search myself in County website and found few properties in my street itself valued way lower and would have been better candidate. Even I pointed a property that is by a way more reputed builder than ours, is sold at higher price and have better features and lower valuation in county. I emailed Ownwell also with the properties I found and to my surprise they didnt use properties I mentioned in email for protest. My software developer experience tells me that they hired an intern to build a database of addresses in their system and developed a random address list generator for each property that enrolls with them. They did not function in way they advertised and messed up my one and only chance with county to appeal. Had any human from Ownwell had spent 5 minutes to spot check their random address list they generated, they would have not filed with that list.Now to fix this, I need to file arbitration with the Texas state and fees for that is 500$. Ownwell should own their mistake and refund me for the arbitration fees and help me file the case. As a customer I feel cheated because they neither put any efforts nor did they consider the options I had provided them.
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      Customer Reviews

      351 Customer Reviews

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      Most Recent Customer Review

      Brian S

      5 stars

      07/20/2024

      Have used them now for two years and they have done better than I expected each year. Referred them to my family this year and they got great reductions for them as well. Simple and painless.

      Ownwell Response

      07/22/2024

      Thank you for your kind words and the referral of your family members! We truly appreciate your support and for trusting us with appealing your property taxes.

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