When I see someone complaining about $12K property tax...
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My county (2nd poorest in the state) LOWERED the mil rate to compensate for rising valuations. My state has a Homestead Tax Refund program. I think it’s about 1/3 of the property tax, with income limits.
Also, our electric co-op will rebate a percentage for using 660 KwH or less.
I wish our power utility did that. My all-electric, two-story house usually pulls less power than that each month. I'm about to pull less than that even though we ordered an EV. If my calculations for the EV and my solar upgrade are as accurate as they were for the original solar install, our highest power draw each year will be around 300 kWh. And that's during the winter (read: less solar power) and with driving an EV ~200 miles per week and my wife and I often getting in the hot tub (read: using up battery power in the evening and still usually, but not always, having enough battery storage to power the house through the night).