Hood County CAD – Property Search

Use esearch.hoodcad.net. Do not begin at the privately sponsored hoodcad.org website.

Use 2026 for the current appraisal cycle. Select an earlier year when comparing values or exemption history.

The account number from an appraisal notice or tax statement normally provides the cleanest match.

Try the surname first. Then test the trustee, estate, company or previous owner if the full name fails.

Use the street number and main street name. Remove city, punctuation, directions and road suffixes when necessary.

Try the owner, abstract, survey, subdivision, lot or tract information and compare the result with GIS.

A property may have separate land, home, mobile-home, business-personal-property or mineral accounts.

Do not rely only on the owner name or mailing address.

Check land details, structures, market value, appraised value, taxable values and exemption codes.

Print the property record or save it as a PDF before filing a correction, exemption, agricultural application or protest.

Copy the Property ID, legal description, subdivision and acreage.

Use the Hood CAD interactive GIS map.

This helps with Lake Granbury property, rural acreage and subdivisions with several related lots.

A home, vacant lot, shoreline parcel or agricultural tract may be assessed separately.

Hood CAD publishes a large plat-file library that can provide useful recorded-map references.

Add the Property ID and date. Do not describe the GIS image as a legal survey.

Confirm the owner, Property ID, physical address and legal description.

Use the residence-homestead form linked on the official Forms page.

The driver’s-license or state-ID address generally must match the residence unless a statutory exception or waiver applies.

Heir property, trusts, life estates, manufactured homes and address differences can require affidavits or other proof.

Use Hood Central Appraisal District, P.O. Box 819, Granbury, TX 76048-0819. The district warns that mail sent to the physical office will not be delivered.

Submitting an application does not prove that the exemption was granted.

Do not assume one application automatically covers adjoining family or company parcels.

Separate residential, recreational and idle acreage from qualifying production land.

Open-space land generally needs qualifying agricultural use during five of the preceding seven years.

Attach leases, receipts, maps, photographs, livestock records, crop records or beekeeping documents.

Ask immediately about late-filing procedures when the normal deadline has passed.

Hood CAD may verify livestock, hives, orchards, land condition, production activity and other qualification facts.

Separate inventory, furniture, machinery, computers, vehicles, tools and leased equipment.

Keep invoices and proof of assets that were sold, retired, damaged or moved.

The official business-personal-property page provides current schedules and rendition resources.

Qualifying income-producing tangible personal property with a total taxable value of $125,000 or less in a taxing unit may be exempt.

Save the form, schedules, asset list and delivery confirmation.

Mark the Property ID, proposed value, exemptions and exact deadline.

Examples include excessive market value, unequal appraisal, wrong acreage, incorrect improvements, denied exemption or denied agricultural appraisal.

Locate the correct account and use the enabled protest option when available.

Save the online confirmation or other proof showing the filing date.

Ask for comparable properties, schedules, photographs, measurements and other material Hood CAD plans to use.

Hood CAD provides a separate Comparable Sales Request Form on its Forms page.

Use dated photographs, repair estimates, measurements, adjusted comparable records, leases or agricultural documents.

Write the district value, your requested value or record correction and the evidence supporting it.

Present the strongest evidence first and keep every agreement or order in writing.

Post-ARB appeal routes have separate eligibility rules, payment requirements and deadlines.

Copy the Property ID, owner and legal description from esearch.hoodcad.net.

Open the payment information page and follow its link to the third-party eNETPAY checkout.

Paying the newest year does not automatically clear an older delinquency.

Hood CAD collects for the county and numerous school, city and municipal utility district accounts.

The payment instructions say to omit dollar signs and commas.

The payment provider states that the address must match the card and that P.O. boxes are not accepted for card verification.

Online and in-person electronic payments include third-party processing fees.

Electronic payments can take several days to deposit and post.

Save the current owner, previous owner, Property ID, legal description, subdivision, lot and acreage.

Use the land-record service linked by the Clerk or contact the records office for current access instructions.

Include spouses, trusts, estates, companies, heirs and previous owners.

Look for deeds, deeds of trust, releases, liens, easements, plats, mineral deeds, leases and assignments.

A matching name is not enough when an owner has several parcels or mineral interests.

A current deed may refer to an older plat, restriction, easement, mineral reservation, deed of trust or release.

Ask whether an ordinary or certified copy is required for the lender, court, probate matter or legal transaction.

The County Clerk records documents but does not guarantee title, interpret legal effect or resolve ownership disputes.