There are many counties, cities, towns and villages in Illinois that hit home sellers with a tax or penalty if they do not buy another house within the same political subdivision. In my town, if I sell my house and do not buy another one in the same town I will get hit. There are a lot of things I dislike about Illinois, but it is still light years better than California (except for weather), which I left almost 40 years ago.
“There are many counties, cities, towns and villages in Illinois that hit home sellers with a tax or penalty if they do not buy another house within the same political subdivision. In my town, if I sell my house and do not buy another one in the same town I will get hit.”
How can you “get hit,” if you’ve already left?
Can’t recall all the details but I know when I sold my home last year I was required to pay the town I left! Damn stupidest thing I’d ever heard.
Do you know how that began? I was told that Cicero (I think that was the town) had to settle a claim where a motorcyclist was killed due to a stop sign being down - so in order to come up with the funds to pay off that lawsuit, they began charging people when they sold their homes. Once they got away with that, other towns looked at it and said ‘why not’?!
I didn’t realize, or hadn’t heard, that you can avoid said payment if you stay within the same town - or whichever it is you’re stating here.
Can’t wait to leave this state for good - in due time I shall and oh how happy I will be.