HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Lynder Whittington said she had been helping take care of and living with her parents for years before her dad died in 2018.

The southwest Houston house was in her dad's name, and when he died, any exemptions on the home that would lower those property taxes went away.

Exemptions can lower the value of your property and limit the increase of your property value, but Whittington said she didn't know about them and wasn't familiar with the process of protesting her property value with the appraisal district, which ultimately determines how much she owes in taxes.

The property value for the home rose from $132,000 in 2021 to $205,000 this year, and her taxes increased significantly.

"A lot of us need to be educated, and we're not educated a lot with the property

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