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I hate property tax

Baked

Baked

Lifer
So in the span of 1 week, I received 3 property tax letters from the city. They range from $16x2, $285x2, to $2588x2. Yes, 2 payment coupons in each envelope. Why the fuck is my property tax more expensive than my monthly mortgage + HOA payment, combined! This makes no sense. No, I do not want to contribute to the fucking community college fund. This is so fucked up. I'm gonna have to rent 2 of the 3 bedrooms in my condo out to pay for this shitty tax.

/rant
 
Baked said:
So in the span of 1 week, I received 3 property tax letters from the city. They range from $16x2, $285x2, to $2588x2. Yes, 2 payment coupons in each envelope. Why the fuck is my property tax more expensive than my monthly mortgage + HOA payment, combined! This makes no sense. No, I do not want to contribute to the fucking community college fund. This is so fucked up. I'm gonna have to rent 2 of the 3 bedrooms in my condo out to pay for this shitty tax.

/rant
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that's crazy. My HOA is $5000/year; prop taxes are about $2800
 
I have my property taxes paid through the mortgage impound account. MUCH easier for me to keep track of that way...but it's only $1450/year...so about $120/month on top of my mortgage.
 
So I did some math and my monthly HOA is a little bit more than the annual property tax. So I'm paying almost $900/month for HOA+Property. Yay!
 
IF it's any consolation, your outrageous HOA fees keep people from painting their houses like these:

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Here's a possibility: A person buys a house x years ago, and the price is $92,000. That's like $570/month for principal only. Over those x years, property tax rate slowly rises, as do HOA dues. HOA and property tax could easily eclipse a low payment. Seems reasonable to me.

My HOA dues are $180/year, irrigation rights are $300/year, and property taxes are $2400/year.
 
I blame the Libs. Why the hell should we have to pay property taxes just so the poor kids can get an education and have a school to go to? Just have private schools well to do families can pay to send their kids to. The rest can get a job in a factory assembling Iphones.
 
Mike Gayner said:
BTW, if it helps my property taxes are $1,500, and there's no such things as HOA's here.
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How does that help? You also live in the middle of literally nowhere, a plane ride just to get to another country that is basically in the middle of nowhere (Australia). I'm sure you pay through the nose on basically everything else.
 
wiredspider said:
No HOA here, but sometimes it includes things like club house/pool, maintenance for common areas, snow plowing, and such.
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Yeah, I figured as much, but the one poster said he pays $5k a year. Better be an olympic pool and roads paved in silver for that kind of cash.
 
BoomerD said:
IF it's any consolation, your outrageous HOA fees keep people from painting their houses like these:

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I don't have a hoa and all the houses in my neighborhood are well kept. I don't need some hoa telling me how to maintain my house or yard and paying them as well.
 
my HOA is $351 a month (an rising every year)
my property tax is $220 a month (BOA loan puts this money in escrow and pays the county twice a year, so it's in my monthly payment to them)

it does piss me off to no end that I have to pay tax for something I "own". My personal property tax (cars) is equally as retarded.
 
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