What did you do in the garden today?

[Rick589]

I can carrots. I use them when I make soup. We are a soup family, so it works for me .

How’s the texture? You say you use them for soup, how do you think they’d do in other uses?

 

[Paz]

The sick thing is the same part of government that collects the $ assigns the VALUE of your home/property that the tax is based on. They're supposed to base that on what a house sells for that is comparable to what your place is to others within a mile of your place. Makes sense if you are in a city. In the boonies there are only a couple places within a mile of your place. AND NO house compares to another out here. Covid market rush screwed up pricing as people paid above value. And every since then it's been screwed up. Last evaluation they comp'd all of us against a guy building a NEW home. UM NOT FAIR.
We can contest the amount, but last time I did, the woman said you can contest it, we'll send a person out to to redo your evaluation, but your evaluation could go UP. I took that as a threat and dropped it.

This is why ppl are NOT retiring here. They live in Missouri or Iowa or Kansas and commute here to work until they find work elsewhere.

Oh, here they calculate it pretty much the same, and the price is per built square meter. The most I oayed was in Jerusalem, around 200€ a month. For a 60sqm apartment with 20 meters garden and a 10 meters balcony

 

[Rick589]

AND since we had that hail storm, my assessment is about to go UP again this year, cause all new siding, deck, roof.....UGH PLUS insurance about to go up. All because of NOT MY FAULT!!

Wait a minute. You’re assessment will increase because you made REPAIRS to your house? How does that square, you mean to say that because the repairs incurred higher costs compared to the original material and labor costs that that is considered an upgrade?

 

[Rick589]

Our normal assessments come every three year and track, but always trail, the current market values. Although the trend is always upwards we have had years when our taxes have gone down.

 

[Rick589]

Oh, here they calculate it pretty much the same, and the price is per built square meter. The most I oayed was in Jerusalem, around 200€ a month. For a 60sqm apartment with 20 meters garden and a 10 meters balcony

200€ a month? Isn’t that roughly about $270.00. And the apartment was what, about 200 sq.ft. Was the 200€ just taxes?

 

[WthrLady]

On the garden side - the potatoes are not impressed with the heat, unholy heat.

How’s the texture? You say you use them for soup, how do you think they’d do in other uses?

They're soft. I add them to the last 10 minutes of simmering when they're canned. Freeze dried, I blanch first, and I treat them as fresh when using.

 

[WthrLady]

Our tax is based on what the county THINKS, BELIEVES, you can SELL your house for at the time of the assessment. Fairy dreams and wishes when it's your retirement house. I swear, I feel like I'm paying rent to the state/county for something I've paid in full for already.

 

[WthrLady]

Wait a minute. You’re assessment will increase because you made REPAIRS to your house? How does that square, you mean to say that because the repairs incurred higher costs compared to the original material and labor costs that that is considered an upgrade?

NEWER is considered an upgrade, as it increases the sale value of your home. Think about it, if you were buying a 20 year old house with a 6 year old roof, and 18 year old siding and deck, you'd pay LESS for the house than if it was a 20 year old house with new siding, new deck, and new roof. So yep, increase the value, increase the taxes. And they find out about it when the permits for the repair work are filed.

 

[Rick589]

NEWER is considered an upgrade, as it increases the sale value of your home. Think about it, if you were buying a 20 year old house with a 6 year old roof, and 18 year old siding and deck, you'd pay LESS for the house than if it was a 20 year old house with new siding, new deck, and new roof. So yep, increase the value, increase the taxes. And they find out about it when the permits for the repair work are filed.

Still, actual intentional upgrades would increase the market value bit the assessed value was always based mostly on square footage. Repairs were maintaining a statue quo as it were.

 

[TJAnonymous]

Ours are. almost 850$ a month and always increasing

That is INSANE CRAZY. Total highway robbery.... And I'm super salty that my property taxes doubled from $1300/yr to $2500/yr. If I was being told to pay $850/month....living in the countryside in (what I guessing) is a normal sized residence (aka not a Hollywood mansion), I'd friggin' be going Boston Tea Party on someone....