Property Taxes - How much do you pay annually?

[RICH17]

My sister pays 4500 a year for a townhome in carpentersville. its a row of 5 houses all connected and i cannot understand how its soo much money. ridiculous

 

[wolfe]

Used to pay almost 6k a year when I lived in Yorkville. Moved to Kentucky, have a larger house on an acre and pay about 3k

 

[EmersonHart13]

Then you must accept you don't own your land or property then, since you are being forced to pay rent to the local govt.

I do accept the way Crook County is structured. That is why I still live here. If it bothered me as much as it bothered you, I'd move.

 

[ragingclue]

where'd you grow up?

Tecumseh, MI. Don't want to go back there specifically, but the general area (SE MI) is home to me... And MI has plenty of its own leadership issues and black eyes, but you forgive those things when it's "home". It is pretty annoying watching IL stumble over political and leadership issues we watched topple the entirety of MI though.

 

[HeavyG]

I want to see who pays the highest and lowest property taxes in here, annually

Mine are $1,600/yr

Thats amazing.....what town in Indiana?

Im at $5200.00

I've been entertaining moving to Whiting as it's close to Chicago and is close to the beach and has a pretty cool old Americana style downtown.

 

[HeavyG]

My sister pays 4500 a year for a townhome in carpentersville. its a row of 5 houses all connected and i cannot understand how its soo much money. ridiculous

I hear ya,


compared to a Complex Building/Multiunit dwelling with 4 condos or more, they only pay no more than $600 to $800 here in the City.

 

[Bub]

okay, better one then

ZOMG SOMEONE GOT INTO A CAR ACCIDENT AND THE CAR IS ON FIRE AND THE DRIVER IS TRAPPED

run his plates, see if he paid towards fire coverage !!! OTHERWISE LEAVE THE PUMPER IN THE STABLE

Your firefighter lingo is terrible

 

[Yaj Yak]

Your firefighter lingo is terrible

thank god.

 

[RICH17]

 

[Rebel]

My parents pay about 11k for taxes on their house in Cook County. Half acre lot in Schaumburg. Similar house by me in NV is about 2k in taxes.

 

[cdh027]

I'm not even going to post what we pay. Lets just say everyone so far has been alot cheaper. Our house isn't anything special either and I live in South Elgin. We looked at building a new house on the west side of Randall and the taxes would have been $17,000. Fuck this state!!!

 

[EmersonHart13]

Elgin is fancy, that is why Mook lives there

 

[Vogz]

Mine were about $13K last year.

OP is hilarious with his "I shouldn't pay taxes" shtick.

Wants infrastructure to use, police to protect him, government to run the whole thing, but doesn't want to help pay for it all.

Sounds reasonable.

 

[cdh027]

Elgin is fancy, that is why Mook lives there

It's South Elgin, different town, even fancier.................

 

[Vogz]

That's how hospitals worked until 1986.

Congress passed EMTALA to eliminate the practice of "patient dumping," i.e., refusal to treat people because of inability to pay or insufficient insurance, or transferring or discharging emergency patients on the basis of high anticipated diagnosis and treatment costs. The law applies when an individual seeks treatment for a medical condition "or a request is made on the individual's behalf for examination or treatment for that medical condition."[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act

How do you think the Congress that passes laws like this to protect you is funded?

 

[cdh027]

Mine were about $13K last year.

OP is hilarious with his "I shouldn't pay taxes" shtick.

Wants infrastructure to use, police to protect him, government to run the whole thing, but doesn't want to help pay for it all.

Sounds reasonable.

Ouch, you got me beat.

 

[Vogz]

Ouch, you got me beat.

Yea, it sucks, but that's what I get for having a decent sized house in a great school district.

 

[EmersonHart13]

It's South Elgin, different town, even fancier.................

 

[Nccstud]

$7k here. But a 2300 sq ft house on 4 acres, so I guess I can't complain

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

It's South Elgin, different town, even fancier.................

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9AHIwmH7AY

 

[Dasfinc]

$6800 here in Wheaton for a split level that's only 1200 sqft on paper.... (about 1800 in reality because of the basement) on a 1/4 acre lot.

immediate neighbors are all full 2 story houses and are all well north of $8,000

 

[guspech750]

We have payed $7,800-$8,100 in the last 6 years for our 4 bedroom 2,400sqft + finished walkout basement with a real 5th bedroom, walk in closet, bathroom and kitchen. Located in North Aurora. When we moved here in 2003 our taxes were about $4,100.

 

[sickmint79]

$11,196.85 for 2016 tax year
zillow estimate is $272k
realistically, i think it's more like $250k

no water front or anything just in a neighborhood

lake county, one of top 50 taxed in US, i believe #1 in midwest
in it there are 16 townships, i believe mine is #2 highest

have fought in the past twice, basically did nothing (didn't enlist one of those people that help and take a percent of win or whatever, everything i did to fight seemed valid though)

2300 sq ft

basically pay really expensive taxes to not send my cats to local schools. painful burden split among my brother and i, only thing that makes it semi-tolerable, i guess. he lives really close to work. he'd happily move for more space for outdoor activities though.

 

[sickmint79]

Mine were about $13K last year.

OP is hilarious with his "I shouldn't pay taxes" shtick.

Wants infrastructure to use, police to protect him, government to run the whole thing, but doesn't want to help pay for it all.

Sounds reasonable.

new hampshire has high (although probably not high to me...) taxes and no state income tax. there's some school of economics (georgian or something?) - i know michael hudson is a big fan of, former economic advisor of dennis kucinich and a guy who did great work on the housing bubble - who argues property tax is among the best and fairest taxes. as taxes used for investing and improving an area raise the value of that property as well.

i personally bought at the height of the bubble, but my house was owned by baxter for some reason, who just wanted it off the books and sold it to me basically at their 2001 purchase price, 242,500. my taxes went were 8k then.

got lucky not being fucked by the bubble, poorly chose somewhere with expensive schools i ain't sending shit to though. i don't mind paying for schools, i do mind paying this much for schools, fuck me

 

[Stink Star]

People’s justification for high taxes is always “good schools and roads and police/fire” but guess what? Other states have better roads and schools just as good or better and taxes that are 1/2 what we all pay here