Last month I used Zillow to counter the country tax assessment increase, not sure it worked but at least it was verifiable difference from the government value.
“Last month I used Zillow to counter the country tax assessment increase, not sure it worked but at least it was verifiable difference from the government value.”
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I did that too and it worked for me.
The past 3 years, home prices have risen 300%. I’ve posted constantly here how property taxes are breaking us. When we moved in, they were 2 weeks of income but skyrocketed to around 4 months of income. Every dime is squeezed and squeezed again just to get it paid and can’t keep up with the maintenance. Houses that sold at $300k a few years ago jumped to $600k and immediately jumped to $1.5M a couple years ago and today is $1.7M and that is for a small dinky old house with a too small garage, the laundry was shoved into a bathroom and the small galley kitchen had the cabinets knocked to so they could have a trending island that seats two. The property taxes are... drum roll... $25,000!
These prices are all thanks to the Californian. Illegals, according to gov. numbers make up 7% of Texas’ population (cough, more) so if we can send them packing, that might help.