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When we left Brighton in '97 the house my parents built and I grew up in was assessed ridiculously high, they were paying $12k a year in property taxes there, $7k on our little shop building plus personal property taxes on our business and possessions. I miss Brighton a lot, but I own a 3700 sq ft house in Indiana now on 10 acres of lake front property (we own a 20 acre lake on 100 acres, split it 3 ways) and only pay around $1200 a year. How can anyone keep voting to raise these taxes year after year mostly on just home owners is beyond me. The big trailer parks that take several school buses to pick up all the kids hardly even get touched, while the retired homeowners with no kids get nailed. We need to get those laws changed if any middle class homeowners can expect to still live there.

Quote: The big trailer parks that take several school buses to pick up all the kids hardly even get touched, while the retired homeowners with no kids get nailed.

I know exactly what you mean. I pass one every day and 4 buses go their each morning + ti is close to scholl and some walk and others I'm sure get rides.

I know a guy(with 3 kids) who lives in a trailer park where they own the actual lot and his pTax is something like $175-200 per year. I live 1 mile away in a 1600 sq ft. home approaised at $180K and I pay $2500 per year + my wife and I have no kids.