You must rent. I lived in Texas 17 years....my property taxes on my house went from $600 to $1800 to $3600 to $4800 dollars in 8 years in Ft. Worth. I paid $21 for property taxes last year. You can keep Texas and their "no state tax".
You must rent. I lived in Texas 17 years....my property taxes on my house went from $600 to $1800 to $3600 to $4800 dollars in 8 years in Ft. Worth.
That is brutal
Ya notice people in Texas are constantly trying to get people to move there?
Then throw in nasty heat and humidity 7 months out of the year...
I'd say trouble likes company
Are you chained to the ground?
Move.
That sounds nice , what state ? You pay more than that if you lived out of a shopping cart any place I have ever been .
This part year in TN, a no-income tax state, I paid $600 city and $650 county property tax. No state property tax.
“You must rent. I lived in Texas 17 years....my property taxes on my house went from $600 to $1800 to $3600 to $4800 dollars in 8 years in Ft. Worth. I paid $21 for property taxes last year. You can keep Texas and their “no state tax”.”
What’s really neat about Texas is that one can make $250k (to pick a number) and not have to pay anymore in state tax than someone who makes $25k...providing that both of you live in the same value house (or live in an apartment) - and that you use Amazon for most of your purchases. If you do WANT to live your income, you certainly can, but you will be taxed here. But if you are willing to live low (as I do)...then you get a FREE RIDE here...something that NO STATE with an income tax can offer.
I’d take it. My property taxes are that high in addition to state tax. And I have a very modest ranch home on a small lot.
Be glad that you didn't live in Ohio. I paid $4500 in property taxes in 2007, plus $4000 in state income tax, plus a sales tax that ranged from 6.5% in my county to 7.75% for the county next door (Cuyahoga County). All that money for lousy roads and a corrupt state government.
I'm back in Tennessee now.
Some of the largest states - CA, TX, NY - have huge state governments...however between those three - wouldn't you favor TX? That said, the idea of limited government needs be applied dramatically on these large state apparatchiks.
Yeh our small home in the DFW north area requires now $3000.00 per year in taxes of which 2/3rds is school taxes. Plus our auto and home insurance rates keep going up. It's not as bad here like in Ny, NJ, or Ca. but the state does manage to extort it's unfair share along with the ripoff insurance companies.