<prompt> Human: Weve made no changes to the house at all. My mortgage has gone up 800 a month with a baby on the way. Ive read I cant fight my taxes until May and have never done it before nor know how to. Is it worth hiring an attorney to do it for me? Please adviseEDIT: Houston, TX  <response>: You should have received a notice of reassessment, which has a window for an appeal. You also may have missed your opportunity to appeal, since it seems like you missed your reassessment notice?When the tax bill was paid at the end of 2014, your mortage company disbursed the full amount due, even though they had not collected for this higher tax amount. Escrow had based on the disburement of the prior year your 2013 tax billNow you have an escrow shortgage because your 2014 bill was substantially higher than the 2013 they based it off of. It is also anticipated that your 2015 will be a similar amount.Next there will be an escrow reanalysis, it will be a double whammy.1. It will be collecting on the shortage from the Dec 2014 disbursement2. It will be collecting to disburse on the nower higher anticipated 2015 amount, of which there is already a shortfall for because we are into 2015 already. Servicers usually do this anywhere between March and May.This can destroy some people who were just scraping buy as it is. 