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10/25/12, 11:56 AM
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Because my DH is now 65, our property taxes have gone from $234 to $27 for 7 acres. That is something we can handle without problems....thank goodness.
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10/25/12, 12:38 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Wisconsin by the UP, eh!
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80 acres, 2002 3 br, 2 story home, attached garage, big pole building, small pole building barn, $3800 taxes. 25 acres of the home 40 is agricultural, the second 40 is in managed forest law.
I'm sure keeping winter roads safe in WI contributes to the cost. Trash pick up is extra, $1.50/bag. Our fire and rescue is all volunteer here. Our small school district covers the whole county (co. pop'n 5000), bussing costs are high. And 2/3 of the land in the county is either federal forest, state forest, county forest, with some MFL.
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10/25/12, 05:48 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Louisiana
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In Louisiana, we have homestead exemption.
I live on 50 acres here and pay Zero property taxes.
Before I moved out to my land, I paid like $60/year on the land and nothing on the house I was living in.
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10/26/12, 08:51 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: OREGON
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In southern Oregon 25 acres with mobile home, barn and garage/workshop runs less than $600 per year.
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10/27/12, 09:45 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Michigan's Thumb
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10/27/12, 09:56 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Michigan's Thumb
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This explains how the info on the above link is calculated:
How Tax Burdened is Your State?
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10/27/12, 05:16 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2012
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My 6 acres with my house with no indoor plumbing cost me less than 600.00 a yr for county and school taxes. I have mostly amish and mennonite neighbors. They have mostly 20 and 40 and 100 and 300 acre farms around me. I am of course in central pa 
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10/27/12, 08:36 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Louisiana
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Property taxes on land that produces no income seems wrong. My poor mom back east pays over $2000 on her modest 3bdrm/2bath (paid off) home on a 1/4acre lot in a small town. It's so wrong. +1 for LA on property taxes
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11/01/12, 08:34 AM
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Mine is about $4200 on five acres, house, and barn. Geez, looking at what others pay really gets my goat. Our state is broke, and the services rendered in return for our tax payment seems to be greed, corruption, and servicing debt.
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11/02/12, 11:31 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Alaska
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In Juneau, I pay close to $4000.00 per year for a house on 1/2 acre. We will be selling the house in this or next year, and intend to move down south. Looking for a farm/ranch type property with low taxes, as we will be retiring.
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11/05/12, 08:15 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Northern New Mexico
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I currently own 67 acres with 2 homes, 2 barns, and one pond in Southern Ohio and the real estate taxes are $1961 a year. I just bought a lot in Northern New Mexico that is less than 1/5th of an acre and taxes will be about $800 a year. Guess it is all about location, eh?
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11/05/12, 06:26 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Forests of maine
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We have a 2400sq.ft. 2 bdrm home on 150 acres of forest with 1/4 mile of river frontage.
Land taxes here are $1.05/acre; so roughly $157.50. Then for our house we pay around $440. Total it comes out to around $600/year.
Some people here have 'camps', I did not understand that when we moved here. If I had gone with a 'camp' style home then we would only be paying the $157
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11/05/12, 08:06 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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1 acre on Long Island with a 1967 farm ranch on it. Taxes? $15,000. Yep - not a mistype. Our property taxes are sick.
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11/05/12, 08:21 PM
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Annsni, Fifteen thousand? How in the world do you pay that amt???
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11/05/12, 08:43 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2006
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Originally Posted by tarbe
In Missouri I am paying about $38 per $100k valuation.
In Texas I am paying about $2,800 per $100k valuation.
Of course, there are no income taxes in Texas and my location in Texas has lots of "overhead" that Ozark County does not. Heck, I am 3.5 miles back in on a gravel road in MO.
I am looking forward to selling the elephant in Texas!
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I hear you.
We have a home in a very small town, biggest industry is welfare, evaluated at $60K - taxes are right at 1K.
We also own 6 acres, with a double wide in another part of Texas and I don't know the evaluation, but taxes are about $1,300.
We do get a homestead exemption, but that is just a reduction in taxes and you can only use that on your actual home. Also, the school taxes are frozen when you reach 65. We weren't aware of this, but they did decide to 'revaluate' our taxes the year before we reached 65, and raised them, so they got in their lick anyway. That is only automatic for school taxes, and it is only on your primary residence, but other taxing entities can vote to freeze the taxes as well. So far, ours hasn't.
We don't have a state income tax. The cost of homes here is very reasonable - at least in both places where we own property - so I guess it's a trade off.
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11/05/12, 08:57 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pattycake
Annsni, Fifteen thousand? How in the world do you pay that amt???
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Selling kidneys. 
No, really - we make a halfway decent buck and send a ton to the government. That's about it. Our incomes are higher here where I live than probably other areas - although we personally don't make as much since hubby is a pastor. But yeah, I have to put away $1250 each month to pay the taxes. We're fortunate to not have any mortgage on top of that!
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11/12/12, 07:51 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: North East Indiana
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Just wrote the check for the fall installment. $1995 X 2 for 80 acres, a house and couple barns. Most is assessed to the cropland. (about $50/acre) Home owners in Indiana get by very cheap.
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11/12/12, 09:36 PM
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zone 5 - riverfrontage
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Forests of maine
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BFFhiredman
Just wrote the check for the fall installment. $1995 X 2 for 80 acres, a house and couple barns. Most is assessed to the cropland. (about $50/acre) Home owners in Indiana get by very cheap.
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Wow
2X so you pay $3990/year !
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11/13/12, 07:35 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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mine came yesterday--40 acres--626.07
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11/13/12, 10:27 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Galion OH
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I think real estate taxes are pretty bad all over in OH, but some counties and townships are worse than others. I would love to move nearer my daughter in the next county south, but taxes there are quadruple what they are here (we pay $800 for a $60,000 home on a small town lot). Land is taxed cheaply here (especially if zoned agricultural), but homes/buildings are taxed heavily. If you want to make improvements on your home here, prepare to pay for it in higher taxes forever. I hate that! Also, the nearer you are to a large metropolitan area, the higher the taxes. We are about 50 miles away from the big city, while our daughter is only 25 miles away, which could explain the higher taxes there. But her's is a rural county with no towns to speak of and therefore few taxpayers to support the county. Services are minimal there and a bridge is out on every other road and will stay that way. Not much traffic because of it though. Just peace and quiet. Yep, wish I could afford to move there.
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