One can “Homestead”1 property in Texas and the Taxes are mere pennies compared to regular Taxes.
Homesteaded or not, owning a nice paid for (or not) home in Texas is just like renting! In Texas you pay high school taxes, city taxes, and road taxes all in one bill adding up to about 2.5 %. To make things worse, they can raise them $1000 or more each year! And, you can’t petition to vote them down, because it is not legal in Texas to put it on the ballot. That is 90% of the reason that Texas ran me off…