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$200.00 in taxes for 67 acres. Have an Ag exemption for hay.
Property Taxes ... How Much are yours
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Ductape
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C'mon up here to NH, where as a state with the White Mountains running through it, you are hit with a "view tax" if you live on higher ground than your neighbors.
QRTRHRS
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About $1942 for 20 acres and a five year old ~4200 sq ft house and a barn.
Let me tell you about our place in PA that we sold in Feb 08'. The school district there taxed on sales price. We bought that 30 acre property in 98' for 227k. The taxes were around 2500 but I put it in PA's clean n' green and it went to about 1700. By 06' when we listed it, the taxes were around 32 or 3300.
We were on the market for about 18 months until it sold at 650k. We would have sold it in the first week of listing except for the taxes. The new owner faced a bill of around 12,500 but with some legal help, got it down to 7500!
Oh' and by the way, it took a lot of work and a lot of investment to make that price difference but given the market trends, we thank god every day that we got it sold and moved on!
Let me tell you about our place in PA that we sold in Feb 08'. The school district there taxed on sales price. We bought that 30 acre property in 98' for 227k. The taxes were around 2500 but I put it in PA's clean n' green and it went to about 1700. By 06' when we listed it, the taxes were around 32 or 3300.
We were on the market for about 18 months until it sold at 650k. We would have sold it in the first week of listing except for the taxes. The new owner faced a bill of around 12,500 but with some legal help, got it down to 7500!
Oh' and by the way, it took a lot of work and a lot of investment to make that price difference but given the market trends, we thank god every day that we got it sold and moved on!
Sigarms
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Here in rural NC, 35 acres, land only, no ag exemption, $900 per year.
3500 sq ft house along with 8 acres has the taxes in with the loan, haven't looked at it in a while, but it's relativly low as well.
My father has a 1200 sq ft house with 3 acres in the same former school district you lived in. I think he said he was paying $2200 for school taxes alone!
IMO the lottery only helps the schools a little, they help other people in the state. NC finally got the lottery in a little while ago. Talk about a three ring circus. Low and behold, the schools aren't getting what was originally projected. That said, people in my area havn't learned that telling me that I'm going to go to haydes if I vote a particular really works that well with me.
I know that feeling very well in my rural area.
Fact is, people in the area I live in do nothing but complain about the taxes. Two years ago, we were paying $36 a month for garbage pickup once a week (2 can limit) from a private hauler. County came in and taxed everyone $63 for the year, and you can go to various "dumping stations" to take your trash, no limit on the bags you can bring (nearest one to me was about 4 miles away).
hmmm, $432 a year vrs $63 a year for trash (keep in mind, very rural county, total population of about 37,000). You would of thought the people wanted to hang the local commisioners because now they HAVE TO PAY $63 a year that they didn't have to pay before. I loved it when people with a family of four swear up and down that they only use ONE BAG of trash a week and they shouldn't have to pay!
I've learned a long time ago to keep my mouth shut with the "locals" in the county on the taxes they pay when they complain about them. The FACT is they have no clue what real taxes are (in laws are in Vermont, almost fell over dead when I found out what they were paying for property taxes).
That said, school system pretty much sucks, county services are serverely limited, and the only thing people want to spend money on is putting Jesus on the courthouse.
Everything in life seems to be a trade off to some extent. Funny, I've found there is a difference between wathcing the Dukes of Hazzard for mindless entertainment, and actually having to live it.
As a former county commission once said at a public meeting here in the county, "if you want to live in Yadkin county, you've got to think like Yadkin county!" (and I bs you not, he really did look like boss hog).
3500 sq ft house along with 8 acres has the taxes in with the loan, haven't looked at it in a while, but it's relativly low as well.
My father has a 1200 sq ft house with 3 acres in the same former school district you lived in. I think he said he was paying $2200 for school taxes alone!
IMO the lottery only helps the schools a little, they help other people in the state. NC finally got the lottery in a little while ago. Talk about a three ring circus. Low and behold, the schools aren't getting what was originally projected. That said, people in my area havn't learned that telling me that I'm going to go to haydes if I vote a particular really works that well with me.
I brought up that fact in a barber shop a couple years ago...you'd have thought I was the Anti-Christ
I know that feeling very well in my rural area.
Fact is, people in the area I live in do nothing but complain about the taxes. Two years ago, we were paying $36 a month for garbage pickup once a week (2 can limit) from a private hauler. County came in and taxed everyone $63 for the year, and you can go to various "dumping stations" to take your trash, no limit on the bags you can bring (nearest one to me was about 4 miles away).
hmmm, $432 a year vrs $63 a year for trash (keep in mind, very rural county, total population of about 37,000). You would of thought the people wanted to hang the local commisioners because now they HAVE TO PAY $63 a year that they didn't have to pay before. I loved it when people with a family of four swear up and down that they only use ONE BAG of trash a week and they shouldn't have to pay!
I've learned a long time ago to keep my mouth shut with the "locals" in the county on the taxes they pay when they complain about them. The FACT is they have no clue what real taxes are (in laws are in Vermont, almost fell over dead when I found out what they were paying for property taxes).
That said, school system pretty much sucks, county services are serverely limited, and the only thing people want to spend money on is putting Jesus on the courthouse.
Everything in life seems to be a trade off to some extent. Funny, I've found there is a difference between wathcing the Dukes of Hazzard for mindless entertainment, and actually having to live it.
As a former county commission once said at a public meeting here in the county, "if you want to live in Yadkin county, you've got to think like Yadkin county!" (and I bs you not, he really did look like boss hog).
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I never looked at it like that, but you're right...I also live in "Hazzard County"! There are approximately 16,700 people in my County, it's extremely rural.
This thread was good for me, didn't realize how good we had it here, minus the state income tax
! I'll never get over that one.A lottery in Alabama wouldn't effect me any. I was in Florida back in '87 or '88 when the lottery was established. You can count on both hands the amount of times I played it (total). Just wasn't my cup-o-noodles. I had a statistics professor in college who used to say: "Lotteries are for people who did poorly in statistics". I'll never forget that saying, nor all the classwork he did proving his argument, and the headaches I had when leaving that class! I guess someone has to win it, but if my name were the only one in the hat, they'd pull out the "made in China" tag, so I didn't/don't play.
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dmccarty
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I look at the Lottery as a tax that one can pay if they choose. And there is a chance to win a fortune which I don't get when I pay my property tax. I had to pay the tax this Monday. For our rural house and 45 acres of land I pay the same amount of property tax for our old city house. The rural house is twice the size of the city house with more quality cabinets, trim, brick, etc.
The funny thing about the NC lottery is that think I have won a few dollars one time. I don't buy tickets often just when I'm in a store that is selling the tickets and I have the time and inclination to buy. The FLA lottery I played the same way but I pretty much broke even. I would win 5 dollars here and there but not so much in NC. My uncle won 10K in the FLA lottery.
The thing I can't stand about property taxes is that it shows that I don't really own my land/property. The county does. If you think that is a far out statement don't pay your property tax in 2009 and see if you still own the property in 2010. How property taxes can be Constitutional escapes me. I think the tax has been around since before the US was the US.
I know a family that generations back owned 1,000 acres in what is now North Raleigh. The land is at a major intersection in the city now a days and would be worth tens of millions of dollars. The family donated land for their church to be built on. The first church building is a modest but very nice brick church. Back in the early 90's they built what can be best described as a Mega Church next to the little old church. The man that gave the church the land has a grave but no head stone just a small id slab in the ground in the church grave yard. Last time I saw the grave it was not well maintained. Across the street one part of the family had the typical two story wood frame house. It was torn down a few years back as the road got widened. A few hundred yards away is the small farm pond that now has a subdivision built around it as well as a small strip mall. The strip mall is where the farmers house was located.
The farmer died and his widow could not afford the property tax. So the county sold their land to pay the property tax.
Later,
Dan
And there is a chance to win a fortune which I don't get when I pay my property tax. I had to pay the tax this Monday. For our rural house and 45 acres of land I pay the same amount of property tax for our old city house. The rural house is twice the size of the city house with more quality cabinets, trim, brick, etc.The funny thing about the NC lottery is that think I have won a few dollars one time. I don't buy tickets often just when I'm in a store that is selling the tickets and I have the time and inclination to buy. The FLA lottery I played the same way but I pretty much broke even. I would win 5 dollars here and there but not so much in NC. My uncle won 10K in the FLA lottery.
The thing I can't stand about property taxes is that it shows that I don't really own my land/property. The county does. If you think that is a far out statement don't pay your property tax in 2009 and see if you still own the property in 2010. How property taxes can be Constitutional escapes me. I think the tax has been around since before the US was the US.
I know a family that generations back owned 1,000 acres in what is now North Raleigh. The land is at a major intersection in the city now a days and would be worth tens of millions of dollars. The family donated land for their church to be built on. The first church building is a modest but very nice brick church. Back in the early 90's they built what can be best described as a Mega Church next to the little old church. The man that gave the church the land has a grave but no head stone just a small id slab in the ground in the church grave yard. Last time I saw the grave it was not well maintained. Across the street one part of the family had the typical two story wood frame house. It was torn down a few years back as the road got widened. A few hundred yards away is the small farm pond that now has a subdivision built around it as well as a small strip mall. The strip mall is where the farmers house was located.
The farmer died and his widow could not afford the property tax. So the county sold their land to pay the property tax.
Later,
Dan
QRTRHRS
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Think 12.5 is bad? I lived in Belvidere for awhile. Back around 88', I was paying 8k for two postage stamp properties and they were not located around the park either.
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We have been here (Washington) since 1987, taxes were about $6K. As soon as we retire we are out of NJ. BUT given the market is down the tubes, instead of 5 years it will be more like 10 years.
I believe that the more children you have, the higher your school taxes should be. You get the first child free, i.e we all pay the school tax for your child, after that, you pay full whack.
This will do two things . . less environmental pollution, lower taxes for the rest of us.
This will do two things . . less environmental pollution, lower taxes for the rest of us.
Sigarms
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I can tell you for certain that the NC lottery has effected me.
Now I can go into a gas station/convienence store and have ONE guy in front of me at the counter take up 10 minutes playing $1 games.