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cougjunkie · 02-11-2007, 11:57 PM

First of all, he has a very nice house, but i looked at the specs and the taxes are 9622 a year!, Thats 800 a month if you have them escrowed. How can anyone afford to buy a house out there. Is it higher in Texas?

My taxes are 1200 a year for a 300k house in Utah.

danimal · 02-12-2007, 12:01 AM

We rent a small 3 bedroom 1 bath house in Dallas that is not new or nice and our Landlord said that the property tax is $5000/year. For a nice house I wouldn't be surprised at all at 9k. But I agree that it's a huge rip off.

cougjunkie · 02-12-2007, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by danimal

We rent a small 3 bedroom 1 bath house in Dallas that is not new or nice and our Landlord said that the property tax is $5000/year. For a nice house I wouldn't be surprised at all at 9k. But I agree that it's a huge rip off.

Heres the link:

http://www.cougarboard.com/noframes/...tml?id=2479610

also he just said that they went up 30% this year, so he is paying 1100 a month for a 500k house.

BarbaraGordon · 02-12-2007, 12:24 AM

Good gracious. Our whole house payment (PITI) isn't even $1100 a month.

Cali Coug · 02-12-2007, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by cougjunkie

First of all, he has a very nice house, but i looked at the specs and the taxes are 9622 a year!, Thats 800 a month if you have them escrowed. How can anyone afford to buy a house out there. Is it higher in Texas?

My taxes are 1200 a year for a 300k house in Utah.

Very funny listing!

http://www.cougarboard.com/noframes/...tml?id=2479744

Statman is not Editingman!

livecoug · 02-12-2007, 02:45 AM

my sister lives in chicago area and they pay that much.. i love Saratoga Springs property taxes..

RockyBalboa · 02-12-2007, 06:15 AM

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Originally Posted by livecoug

my sister lives in chicago area and they pay that much.. i love Saratoga Springs property taxes..

I thought you lived in Lehi. No?

livecoug · 02-13-2007, 03:49 AM

we are in Saratoga Springs, but our address is Lehi.. we are the only subdivision in SS that is a Lehi zip code. Our back yard fence is actually the border between the two cities.

when we bought the house we assumed it was lehi cause of the mailing address. but hey, no complaints, SS taxes are cheaper..

BlueHair · 03-01-2007, 03:28 AM

My wife and I have been thinking about buying/building a bigger home. My absolute hatred for property taxes has slowed down the process a bit. Besides that, I'm a cheap bastard. My $700 a year tax bill is bad enough. I can't imagine paying $10,000 per year.

02-11-2007, 11:57 PM	#1
cougjunkie Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Utah Posts: 5,741	Statman posted a link to his house for sale in Illinois First of all, he has a very nice house, but i looked at the specs and the taxes are 9622 a year!, Thats 800 a month if you have them escrowed. How can anyone afford to buy a house out there. Is it higher in Texas? My taxes are 1200 a year for a 300k house in Utah. __________________ LINCECUM!

02-12-2007, 12:01 AM	#2
danimal Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Your mom's house Posts: 588	We rent a small 3 bedroom 1 bath house in Dallas that is not new or nice and our Landlord said that the property tax is $5000/year. For a nice house I wouldn't be surprised at all at 9k. But I agree that it's a huge rip off. __________________ Tobias: You know, Lindsay, as a therapist, I have advised a number of couples to explore an open relationship where the couple remains emotionally committed, but free to explore extra-marital encounters. Lindsay: Well, did it work for those people? Tobias: No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but...but it might work for us.

02-12-2007, 12:24 AM	#4
BarbaraGordon Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Gotham City Posts: 7,157	Good gracious. Our whole house payment (PITI) isn't even $1100 a month.

02-12-2007, 02:45 AM	#6
livecoug Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,176	my sister lives in chicago area and they pay that much.. i love Saratoga Springs property taxes..

02-13-2007, 03:49 AM	#8
livecoug Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,176	we are in Saratoga Springs, but our address is Lehi.. we are the only subdivision in SS that is a Lehi zip code. Our back yard fence is actually the border between the two cities. when we bought the house we assumed it was lehi cause of the mailing address. but hey, no complaints, SS taxes are cheaper..

03-01-2007, 03:28 AM	#9
BlueHair Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Utah Posts: 1,148	My wife and I have been thinking about buying/building a bigger home. My absolute hatred for property taxes has slowed down the process a bit. Besides that, I'm a cheap bastard. My $700 a year tax bill is bad enough. I can't imagine paying $10,000 per year.