DALLAS — Someone recently told me they forgot to take advantage of one of the strongest and most valuable protections you can have as a Texas homeowner: a homestead exemption.
The homeowner who had forgotten to get theirs says they were inspired to do so following my last reminder about this. That felt good.
But this doesn’t — I just checked around with the biggest central appraisal districts (CADs) in North Texas. They tell me hundreds of thousands of residences here are without homestead exemptions. Here’s each CADs breakdown of the number and percentage of properties without homestead exemptions:…