Git 'er done.

 

well ya got me there no neck.

 

property taxes also covers your fire department, police services, etc. Yeah, if everyone paid their share, some of us wouldn't have to pay as much, but for now, this is what we got.

 

Dang! I have to pay over $3500.00 this year, and my home sits on a postage stamp! And I get the homestead exemption & disabled vet exemption! But at least my home is paid for! Nothing like that for a good feeling!

 

Yeah, Like tanker I can handle the $1300 I pay here but some of the stuff my tax is based on is rediculous. Luckily, in our area, after you turn 65 you get a break on taxes up to 500K if its your primary residence.

 

I live rural & the fire dept is all volunteer the road doesnt get paved or graded unless the neighbors pitch in & in 28 yrs only two of them out of 5 have. The schools are where are tax base mostly goes & I don't have kids in school & even they don't spend $$ wisely. We do have one deputy on duty 24/7 that covers a 100 mile radius.

 

Just closed on my house first house in November. been interesting to say the least, gonna need a new roof, the siding wasnt done very well so that'll need to be addressed in the future, windows are decent tilt ins, gas furnace is only 4 years old, hot water heater is very old. I have already replaced all the interior doors, new door casings, base and crown molding. Trying to save money for the material so I can build the new kitchen cabinets (helps that thats what i do for a living) already have the corian sheets for the counter tops, just need the cherry plywood for the boxes and cherry solid for faceframes and doors.

I consider myself very lucky that although Im almost struggling to make ends meet since I bought the house, at least I've had the opportunity to buy a house and make some changes for the better to it.

Edit, Here in NJ on my 1000 sq ft home situated on a 100x150' lot taxes are $4000 annually. My parents live just a few miles from me, 100x75' lot with a 2900 sq ft home-----$14000 annually, their taxes went up 40% since last year

 

The house I grew up in was some where around 200 years old. A little too much work. It got sold and demolished. Check out the log walls..

 

Guess I shouldnt complain about my taxes anymore.

Its always a little sad to see the old places get torn down. The house my Dad was born in along with all his brothers and sisters got torn down about 10 years ago. He retrieved a piece of the redwood siding from it as a momento.

 

I kept a log. It's in the garage. It was sad to see it go.
We had a coal boiler for heat.
There's a new house right on top of the same site. They just finished it.

 

probably all pushed off in the land fill too....

America is funny, we bulldoze so much of our history just because its convenient... Ive been to a lot of places that would look at a 200 year old house as the new one on the block and have made the repairs.
Ive probably mentioned it before, I was in a pub in the UK, the bar was over 400 years old. they just moved it from pub to pub. The building it was in at that time has been in continuous operation for some 150 years...