Welcome to John Silvestri and Barbara Stern's "Cut your real estate tax" web site.
The lowest level of real estate taxation is attained when you successfully appeal your real estate tax assessment, or when you successfully defend a school district, city, boro or township appeal to increase your property assessment.
To learn of our services to cut your year 2013 assessment issued now, click here. We will review your assessment situation and either accept or reject your case. We will advise you without charge to you. Barbara Stern and John Silvestri utilize different skills. John Silvestri provides legal representation and Barbara Stern, a non-attorney, provides data analysis and information which hearing officers and the Court uses to re-assess your property correctly.
John Silvestri has been licensed as an attorney in Pennsylvania since 1975. Over the years, his real estate related practiced areas included, e.g., zoning, land development regulations, acquisitions, sales, financing, construction disputes, real property casualty and liability insurance. From 1978 to 1997, he worked as a solicitor for the Allegheny County Board of Property Assessment, Appeals and Review. He is also licensed as a Real Estate Broker in the States of Pennsylvania and Florida, which qualifies him to appraise real estate in Florida for real estate tax assessment purposes.
Barbara Stern is experienced as a real estate developer, and was licensed as a real estate sales person in the State of Pennsylvania. She is a mathematician by education, and she is skilled in the methods of collecting evidence of market value for John Silvestri to present at assessment hearings.
You may contact Barbara Stern by phone at 412-999-2087 or John Silvestri at 412-391-0958, or both of us by e-mail with your questions or comments at cutmyrealestatetax@gmail.com,
Our mailing address is: 1000 N. Negley Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
