On one hand my 80 year old house is only about 1500 square feet, with 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths and a lot size of 110 x 60.
On the other we bought it for $289k three years ago and my best estimate is that we could easily get at least $450k for it in this market.
Nah. I’m still annoyed. Property taxes go up every year around here. I cross my fingers I won’t wind up with a reassement like Loach and find they’ve jumped to 8k one day.
It’s the worst aspect of living in this state.
1682 sq over an unfinished basement of the same size, 3 acres, southern Md - somewhere around $1800/year, if I recall the closing documents correctly.
2000 sq. ft. on a 10,000 sq. ft. lot in Boulder County, CO.
$2000 a year for a $400K value. Some of the numbers thrown around in this thread are just amazing. What kind of services do you get in NJ or WI that I don’t?
2000 square feet, 1/10 acre, small town Ohio, $1000.
California property tax is capped at 1% of home value + the cost of bond measures that must pass referendum. That’s the good news. The bad news is that homes are really freaken highly priced, so I’m still paying $4,000.
-lv
Woof. Are you a shrink or a urologist? 
Lexington KY, 4 bdrm 3 bath 2700 sq ft 1/2 acre of land with mature trees and creek - $1500/yr.
But we have two different payroll taxes just for the city… one to work here and one to live here.
$4K on a 1250 square foot house, built 3 years ago (we paid about $180K). Real estate and property taxes are ridiculously high here–the one down side to being a Madisonian.
Don’t you also pay property taxes on things like cars and boats?
I pay $120 give or take a year for my car. I don’t have a house yet, so none there.
1700 square feet at foot level, 1625 square feet at head level*. Up on a 300’ ridge beautiful view of eastern TN + 17.6 acres…
$417.00 a year. 
*A frame
Property taxes take about 1.4% of the market value of my Wisconsin property per year. This is about 10 times the tax rate of property I used to hold in California. Both are/were residental, as the tax rate varies according to land use in many places. Farmers in Wis get a big tax break and the feds pay them $ as well just to be idylic farmers, even if they grow or produce nothing. Some of them get back more than they pay.
We in Tennessee also have no income tax. What we do have is a high sales tax. In my county the sales tax is 9.25%.
I have to say that although here people complain about taxes constantly, I’ve not felt unduly taxed in TN.
StG
The property tax millage rate in my county is 18.11 (property taxes per $1000 of nonexempt assessed value).
No state income tax, sales tax is 7% including local options, no sales tax on groceries or medicines.
Well, here in WI they plow snow (usually into the driveway approach) and salt the roads (autos rust at an alarming rate), collect garbage (but leave some in the can to ripen), and we do have a nice and extensive public park system (but because taxes aren’t high enough they don’t get maintained much anymore) and we have a nice new stadium for the Brewers (but there was a special tax for that too). Because of the snow plows, the harsh winters, and the salt, we have rebuild our highways like every six months, so we always seem to keep the highway crews working. I can’t wait 'till they rip up the Marquette interchange and foul up the main highway through the city for four years.
Other than that stuff there isn’t much. :rolleyes:
We bought the house 5 years ago. Taxes were $2600. Two years later it jumped to $3500. This year it jumped to $6000. So not quite double but close enough. This is on a small Cape Cod with no garage, basement or attic. I don’t have the property dimensions with me but I know its less than an 1/8 of an acre.
In NJ we get the honor of paying the highest car insurance rates in the country along with one of the highest costs of living. I happen to be paying for a very good school system in my town so I guess I am lucky.
$325,00 property on 3/4 acre, 3000 sq’ ft’ and I pay 6,400 a year and I am way UNDER taxed in NJ.
If I were re-assessed, I’d be facing 7500-9000 dollars per year.
Taxes tell only part of a story. “Cost of Living” would tell the whole story.
If my house were in Deleware and still near the Philly burbs, it would be worth 500,000 dollars and wouold be about 1800-2000 dollars in taxes.
New Jersey is in the North East, has a shoreline and two major league suburban area/metro areas, Philly and New York. It provides services to all those consumers, but so much business lies just over the rivers in other states. It is becoming more and more liberal and is acting like a little California in terms of programs, taxing, consumer laws, and regulations on corporations. Expect similar problems in NJ that CA has had. This is not a poltical statement, but youn can only add so many layers of consumer laws, worker laws and programs before people ‘opt out’ of your state.
I want to head back to PA. My company found NJ cost of living too high and found and unfriendly envirnment for biz, so we settled in PA, just two miles from NJ. Yet everyone commutes from NJ.
'Burbs NE of Houston 2,400 sq. ft. built in 1999.
1999 772.38
2000 840.35
2001 996.48
2002 999.46
2003 1,012.46
I just purchased a home in Levittown PA (about 20 minutes outside of Philadelphia PA) for $181,500, the taxes are $3300 a year for 1600 square feet. Damn that’s high compared to some of you guys.
2,150 sf 7years old about $420K (per the realtor who lives next door) and my taxes went down about $200 this year to $1,950. No state income tax either - half hour to Lake Tahoe.
There’s some real advantages to living in a state where gambling and prostitution are legal.
Humph…just got my bill
$453.00
Oh well… :dubious:
2100 sq.ft. house on 160 acres. Just got my tax bill and it went up to $510 from about $350. I’ll go tomorrow and file for current use evaluation, which should knock a hundred or so off.
It would hurt my heart to pay what some of you are having to pay. Oh yeah, I’m 12 miles from a traffic light so maybe y’all should try the joys of country living.