To be fair, you don’t really own your home until you pay off your mortgage.
Tell me how much of your home you own when you fail to pay property taxes for a few years. After the government comes in with their armed goons to force you off “your” property
I was about to make the same statement. And the real problem is-that varies by state and within a state. Taxes are very affordable one county over from me-and even within the county I live in. But my local city has gone nuts. I own my home, valued at about $180k. But I pay $5k a year in taxes just to keep it and I have no kids in public school-never have (we’ve always Home schooled).
Given property taxes in Texas, you continue to rent after the mortgage is paid off.......