how high are your property taxes?

[jlee]

40min is my commute (I leave at 6:15) and I am just driving in the city.

Sucks to be you.

I drive 15min - and after working 10 (or more) hours on 3rd shift, an hour is an eternity.

 

[dullard]

Where I live (Nebraska), it is just about 2% of the appraised house value. They reappraise things every 3 years on average.

 

[onza]

I purchased a house for 126k down'd 10%. and my prop taxes are 2300 / year.

 

[Miramonti]

1.3%

 

[jlarsson]

The ridiculous one is in Lebanon, the other in Canaan.

/agree, I own a small one bedroom condo in Lebanon. My property taxes are just north of $2k. The lack of state income tax is certainly nice though.

 

[sdifox]

Sucks to be you.

I drive 15min - and after working 10 (or more) hours on 3rd shift, an hour is an eternity.

that 40 turns into 60 if I leave later...

 

[child of wonder]

Property taxes in South Dakota are ridiculous.

Ours is about 1.7%. $150,000 house comes out to over $210 a month in property taxes.

However, there is no income tax.

 

[nerp]

dang. i only pay $5,592 for an entire year of rent. i do share a 1600 sq foot house with 2 other guys though.

Yeah, but taxes and insurance are rolled into my mortgage payment and my mortgage is just 45,000. That means I pay about $500 month for a 1400 square foot house for my wife and I. It's not like I have to cut the city a check on an annual basis. Granted, my mortgage is really low so that distorts the picture somewhat, but property taxes should always be factored into your monthly housing costs when you're buying a house. A lot of real estate noobies forget about taxes and insurance and think they can afford more than they really can.

 

[kranky]

$3100/year outside Pittsburgh.

 

[Possessed Freak]

$79k house... $2400 in property/school taxes.

 

[DesiPower]

about 7% lower on homestead
same on investment

 

[SearchMaster]

Our assessment rate is 40% of the market value, and 4% of that, so roughly 1.6% of the home's value (exemptions muddy the numbers a tad bit). I'm not even sure what my taxes are these days, I think ~$2500...the taxes were under $900 when I bought the house 12 years ago though we've doubled the home's size since then.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Denver seems to be about $1000-1500 for the $200,000-$300,000 range. I think it's exceptionally low here though, for whatever reason.

We're at ~$3400/yr for ~$230,000 in Commerce City, so ~1.4%. Still a lot lower than what some other people have been posting, but I'd be surprised in Denver was THAT much lower.

 

[sdifox]

self-facepalm.

replied to wrong tab

 

[Merithynos]

$4201 on an assessed value of 200k.

 

[highland145]

I will not tell you where I live because our prop values and rates will continue to rise if you all move here. I cut this from our county tax page for my house since 1992. I paid another $195.36 for city tax. The column headings don't quite line up but you can figure it out that I paid $301.03 county tax 2009.

# Of Buildings: 1
Number of Acres: 0.25
Assessed Value: 6,570.00
Assessed Percentage: 0.04
Homestead Percentage:
Total Appraised Value: 164,322.00

Tax Year Receipt Number Current Assessed Value Total Tax Owed

1992 48375 2,150.00 0.00 397.54 NA 1993/01/14
1993 49320 2,150.00 0.00 403.56 NA 1994/01/12
1994 50157 2,150.00 0.00 422.91 NA 1994/12/30
1995 50068 5,260.00 0.00 208.37 NA 1996/01/16
1996 40538 2,400.00 0.00 222.00 NA 1996/12/11
1997 41220 2,400.00 0.00 231.36 NA 1997/12/10
1998 52165 2,400.00 0.00 247.44 NA 1998/12/31
1999 87196 2,400.00 0.00 253.44 NA 1999/12/30
2000 88957 2,400.00 0.00 264.72 NA 2000/12/22
2001 90335 2,570.00 0.00 265.99 NA 2001/12/31
2002 91809 2,570.00 0.00 290.66 NA 2002/12/27
2003 93097 2,570.00 0.00 340.01 NA 2003/12/31
2004 94207 2,570.00 0.00 340.01 NA 2004/12/31
2005 96028 2,570.00 0.00 355.17 NA 2005/12/21
2006 97877 2,570.00 0.00 368.53 NA 2006/12/31
2007 100249 2,960.00 0.00 307.25 NA 2008/01/15
2008 102574 2,960.00 0.00 307.54 NA 2008/12/19
2009 103423 2,960.00 0.00 301.03 NA 2009/12/22

 

[Jadow]

house is accessed at 169k, recent apprasal at 220k, tax = $2800 / Year

i live in WI

 

[Sho'Nuff]

Well there's your problem!
Edit: NH does have higher property taxes than other places. Fortunately, we don't have a sales or income tax. Instead, all of out money comes from alcohol taxes, tobacco taxes, meals taxes, etc that are all slightly lower than Massachusetts (just a coincidence, we promise )

I think the NH meals tax (9%) is a few percent higher than the equivalent tax in MA (~6%). But otherwise I agree.