Welcome to The McKinney Podcast, where we celebrate the people and happenings that make our city “Unique By Nature.”
Our guest for this episode is Michael Reeves, Founder of The Andy App.
The MCKPOD is presented by RiskWell and FredShots Photography and recorded at the RiskWell studio in McKinney. Your hosts are James Jenkins and Fred Mahusay.
Key Topics:
- Growing up in Richardson and Plano and early entrepreneurial instincts
- Selling Cutco knives and credit card machines door to door
- Growing a merchant services company to 200 employees before its sale
- Entering property taxes and building a property tax lending business
- Selling the lending company to private equity and launching The Andy App
- Using AI to file exemptions and protest property taxes every year
- Winning the McKinney Economic Development Innovation Award and North Texas Demo Days
- Why protesting every year matters, even with exemptions, and documenting property imperfections
- Ethics, hardship savings, and counties adopting their own AI
- Expanding beyond Texas and adding property tax protests to tax filing
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