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Property tax
« on: Oct 10th, 2007, 12:42pm » |
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Well I am off to the town boards open book sesion. The friendly assessor was at my house and the bottom line was a 54,000 dollar increase in value. That is a 40% increase. I know they have not re-assessed in quite a few years, but 40% is a big hit.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #1 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 12:51pm » |
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Man is that outragious. I would be doing alot of talking and making some heads roll. Good luck.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #2 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 12:52pm » |
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4o % is a huge hit, and the problem is there aint much you can do about short of choking the not a very nice person,best of luck to you.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #3 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 12:53pm » |
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on Oct 10th, 2007, 12:42pm, lashultz wrote:Well I am off to the town boards open book sesion. The friendly assessor was at my house and the bottom line was a 54,000 dollar increase in value. That is a 40% increase. I know they have not re-assessed in quite a few years, but 40% is a big hit.
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Just another reason that we are seriously contemplating a move out of this state and westward.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #4 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 1:00pm » |
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but think about all you get for that money........
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #5 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 1:08pm » |
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Protest the hell out of it.
Ours was in June -- Got mine lowered about 100K by just being my sweet loveable self. Don't think they want to see me again for a LOOOONG time to come. My taxes were cut in half from last year. For some reason, they just don't like a lot of noise in their quiet little offices.. 
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #6 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 2:16pm » |
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I just got back and have to fill out a form as to why I feel the assessment is flawed. My only prayer is that I have a earth berm home that has limited market appeal. One guy in front of me has his house for sale for 449,000 and he was assessed at 446,000. His argument was he would never sell it for that.The guy does't have a leg to stand on.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #7 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 2:26pm » |
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In Vegas they really hit us hard. The only saving grace was that we got enough people at the Board of COmmissioners meetings to complain and they passed that if it is your primary residence they can not increase it more then 3% a year. All the people with rental / investment preperties got a 20% increase. It was still hard to make those payments and we got a discount because Shuan is a vet.
Good luck. Go to your County Board meetings. They will have an open time for people to have questions, you cna speak there and get it read into the record so that it is on the books what they say. If people dnt make a fuss then things just get swept under the carpet. Could be that your neighbors are getting hit hard to and dont realize what that means.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #8 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 3:49pm » |
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Taxes on the cabin at Finley Point on Flathead Lake are twenty four thousand bucks a year.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #9 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 4:00pm » |
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Isn't it interesting though how the religious organizations can own soooooooo much property and get away without paying a penny on it?
Perhaps you might consider becoming a ordained minister of the church of Lee and using your home as a cathedral.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #10 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 4:08pm » |
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Lee - does your community now assess at 80% to 100% of estimated value?
Our community used to assess 60% of estimated market value (with that 40% wiggle room on top for them to raise the assessment if necessary, which is exactly what they did). We are now assessed at 90% of value . . . but with the housing market down about 12% there is no way we could get what it's assessed at.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #11 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 4:12pm » |
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you all must be talking about new york state!!!!!
the taxes there drove me out...(and the snow)
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #12 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 5:26pm » |
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on Oct 10th, 2007, 4:12pm, lorac wrote:you all must be talking about new york state!!!!!
the taxes there drove me out...(and the snow)
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Nope - Wisconsin - TAX HELL USA
(And the snow gets old but it's better than unrelenting heat in my book. Besides, we're on the West side of the big lake so we don't get the lake effect like NY does.)
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #13 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 7:19pm » |
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on Oct 10th, 2007, 4:12pm, lorac wrote:you all must be talking about new york state!!!!!
the taxes there drove me out...(and the snow)
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Yes !!!!!!!!!! My Senator !!!! My taxes a year-----grab your o2 tanks-----------------22,000.00-Absolutely ridiculous----2 kids in college-------68,000.00/year----Are you f**king kidding me ?????????????
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #14 on: Oct 10th, 2007, 8:56pm » |
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What a horrible story.
Everyone in my western NY town is going postal over the latest hikes but to show you the dump I must be living in, my taxes went down $100.
I'm not asking any questions.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #15 on: Oct 11th, 2007, 1:48am » |
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on Oct 10th, 2007, 4:08pm, Mosaicwench wrote:Lee - does your community now assess at 80% to 100% of estimated value?
Our community used to assess 60% of estimated market value (with that 40% wiggle room on top for them to raise the assessment if necessary, which is exactly what they did). We are now assessed at 90% of value . . . but with the housing market down about 12% there is no way we could get what it's assessed at.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #16 on: Oct 11th, 2007, 1:50am » |
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Lee - does your community now assess at 80% to 100% of estimated value?
They tax at 100% give or take 10%.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #17 on: Oct 11th, 2007, 2:09am » |
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on Oct 10th, 2007, 12:53pm, Brewcrew wrote:
Just another reason that we are seriously contemplating a move out of this state and westward.
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You know... New Mexico does have one major thing going for it (besides the weather)...
...all residents who graduate or get their Equivalency test can go to any state college on a lottery scholarship. If they keep their grades at a 2.5 or better, I think, they can go for 4 years. I figure that may be something you'd want to consider for Roy.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #18 on: Oct 11th, 2007, 1:38pm » |
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All of you who complain about the taxes need to take a hard look at your political party, their platform, and the voting record of yout representatives.
Bitching about it here is pretty useless.
It f'n amazes me that the people who vote these money hungry, self-serving, tax you from cradle to grave politicians into office are the SAME people who complain about their taxes or what the government *won't* give them for free.
Look at this idiotic SCHIP program... if you want higher taxes for less medical care, this is it. Every time I see the damn "it's the right thing to do for the children" ads, I want to throw up.
You don't get what you pay for, you get what you VOTE for.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #19 on: Oct 11th, 2007, 1:55pm » |
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on Oct 11th, 2007, 1:38pm, fubar wrote:| You don't get what you pay for, you get what you VOTE for. |
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That's true. Last year absorbed a 35% increase due to past elected officials embezzling over 3+ million, and deciding to build a new city hall so the offices are more comfy for taxpayed workers while I work in a cubical and wear a sweater because of a tinch of company heat conserving.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #20 on: Oct 11th, 2007, 4:52pm » |
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So, if you stop voting, you get to bitch until the cows come home!
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #21 on: Oct 16th, 2007, 10:14pm » |
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I just got my reply today from the open book session.
Believe it or not the assessor reduced my value by 22,100. Still a big increase but it will save me money for years to come.
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Re: Property tax
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In Jamestown, the consensus it that both parties promise to keep us solvent by raising taxes. It's a puzzlement that the city went from 47,000 years ago to about 32,000.... Everbody moved across from Walmart.
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Re: Property tax
« Reply #23 on: Oct 17th, 2007, 8:05am » |
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on Oct 11th, 2007, 1:38pm, fubar wrote:
Look at this idiotic SCHIP program... if you want higher taxes for less medical care, this is it. Every time I see the damn "it's the right thing to do for the children" ads, I want to throw up.
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Actually, the SCHIP program is one of the few programs that I actively will support (not the proposed expansion that Bush vetoed). There are quite a few *working poor* that cannot afford healthcare. Then you have all those employers who do not provide the option of getting health care to their employees.
As long as the powers that be don't try to get a huge increase in the SCHIP program, I will continue to support it.
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Try a 79.8% increase in one year then 2 years later a 115% increase on top of the first!!! I bitch about taxes for a reason! That aside, I know how you feel because anything above infaltion is wrong...period.
It used to be that a property was assesed at the time of sale and rarely reassesed between. Not any more. When the towns and countys realized they could get away with almost yearly reassesment they went nuts doing it and they are driving families from their homes. Don't plan on retiring in your home folks, you woun't be able to keep it!
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