Are you paying higher property taxes than your neighbors?

[rsm]

Is your county property tax regressive?



https://propertytaxproject.uchicago.edu/data/

 

[Monkey Man]

This'll be like flypaper to bots bro'.

 

[rsm]

This'll be like flypaper to bots bro'.

Most likely. We probably have some here that enjoy taxation without actual representation, and want to pay higher taxes - or want to make others pay higher taxes.


Well the info is dated (2017?) but I found it useful; I'm in one of the higher tax neighborhoods in my county, unfortunately; not sure how mine compare to my neighbors' taxes as it doesn't get more granular...and our property taxes have gone up thanks to government incompetence, mismanagement and likely some corruption and malfeasance.

 

[Monkey Man]

Sounds familiar.

 

[Ben Waylin]

Negative.

I pay far less property taxes than all my neighbors around me, due to rainwater harvesting.

Follow me for more tips on keeping the government's hand out yo pocket.

 

[Monkey Man]

Yep. The infrastructure's part of their justification, so the less of it you can get by with, the better-off you are.

 

[70 Mach 1]

Paying $12k for a 70x120 lot with 2 story colonial house
That's considered cheap on long Island

Have friends Paying 20k and more

The knucklehead politicians cant figure out why there is a mass exodus leaving New York

 

[dcburn]

Paying $12k for a 70x120 lot with 2 story colonial house
That's considered cheap on long Island

Have friends Paying 20k and more

The knucklehead politicians cant figure out why there is a mass exodus leaving New York

My wife still has friends and family on LI.
I cant believe some of the housing prices/costs/taxes I hear about!

Her aunt and partner are retired and own their home outright, bought in the early 80's.
Should hopefully clean up when they sell?
They want to retire and relocate directly under us in NY, but be in PA.
We are roughly an hour or so from the PA border going south thru Watkins Glen.

 

[Ben Waylin]

Yep. The infrastructure's part of their justification, so the less of it you can get by with, the better-off you are.

What's ridiculous about that is.. it technically isn't about the State's infrastructure.

I'm totally rural, so I'd have to drill a well.

That's what would skyrocket my property taxes.

 

[84superchamp]

I don’t know how you go about finding what your neighbors pay in property taxes but mine are pretty low, about $1,500 per year but it goes up EVERY year. They make up for it in taxing my retirement income, sons a bitches.

 

[WEF Chairman]

Part of the reason I live on this island is the tax structure.

 

[Ben Waylin]

I don’t know how you go about finding what your neighbors pay in property taxes but mine are pretty low, about $1,500 per year but it goes up EVERY year. They make up for it in taxing my retirement income, sons a bitches.

It's public record.

 

[JackBootedThug]

Paying $12k for a 70x120 lot with 2 story colonial house
That's considered cheap on long Island

Have friends Paying 20k and more

The knucklehead politicians cant figure out why there is a mass exodus leaving New York

that's insane.

 

[JackBootedThug]

I don’t know how you go about finding what your neighbors pay in property taxes but mine are pretty low, about $1,500 per year but it goes up EVERY year. They make up for it in taxing my retirement income, sons a bitches.

mine are pretty cheap but luckily my retirement is exempt from state income tax.

 

[VonBonfire]

Here if you can afford 10 acres you can get the ag exempt and barely pay 5 years after you've had your plan approved or buy a place where it is already ag exempt. So the 10+ acre lots have that additional value to them, just for the tax savings potential. I get hit hard enough but Id be paying triple for the same thing I have here if I was in NY or NJ and unfortunately I do not have a 10 acre lot.

 

[dcburn]

Here if you can afford 10 acres you can get the ag exempt and barely pay 5 years after you've had your plan approved or buy a place where it is already ag exempt. So the 10+ acre lots have that additional value to them, just for the tax savings potential. I get hit hard enough but Id be paying triple for the same thing I have here if I was in NY or NJ and unfortunately I do not have a 10 acre lot.

In my neck of the woods it is 7 acres.
Don't you know, I go looking into it, and realize I was sold 6.79 acres...

I could easily sell off a chunk though, as long as it is at least 2 acres.

 

[84superchamp]

In my neck of the woods it is 7 acres.
Don't you know, I go looking into it, and realize I was sold 6.79 acres...

I could easily sell off a chunk though, as long as it is at least 2 acres.

Where I live the ag exemption is available but the acreage has to be in crops. It’s now 6 acres of goldenrod, IMO more desireable than $100 per acre rent and the invasion of farm machinery, I have enough of that all around me.

 

[rsm]

I don’t know how you go about finding what your neighbors pay in property taxes but mine are pretty low, about $1,500 per year but it goes up EVERY year. They make up for it in taxing my retirement income, sons a bitches.

talk to them? I talk to my neighbors regularly, about local gov BS. Otherwise we have nothing to talk about, except when I neglect my lawn...that's what the HOA is for. Oh wait, I don't have an HOA on purpose. My boat is parked on my front lawn, too bad, so sad.

 

[Ben Waylin]

talk to them? I talk to my neighbors regularly, about local gov BS. Otherwise we have nothing to talk about, except when I neglect my lawn...that's what the HOA is for. Oh wait, I don't have an HOA on purpose. My boat is parked on my front lawn, too bad, so sad.

Yep.

My neighbors started this crap about wanting to create an HOA out here several years ago.

I laughed, and told them getting away from HOAs was one reason I bought land and moved to the country.

 

[rsm]

Where I live the ag exemption is available but the acreage has to be in crops. It’s now 6 acres of goldenrod, IMO more desireable than $100 per acre rent and the invasion of farm machinery, I have enough of that all around me.

get a few chickens, or goats? I had a friend that did that. got a few goats and chickens, boom, agriculture!