John H. wrote:
On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 12:24:00 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 07:50:48 -0700 (PDT), John H
wrote:

On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 9:30:26 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 8:46:27 AM UTC-4, John H. wrote:
On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 05:20:12 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


Besides, few South Carolinians go to Myrtle Beach. Way too many
tourists, and there are better beaches in SC to visit. We just don't advertise them.

Speaking of SC, I just did a quickie calculation of what my state
income tax would be down there. It's right at $3000 more than I pay here!

I'll have to look at property taxes. My wife thinks Charleston might be
nice. What do you think? Is the humidity atrocious?

If you went to Florida there would be no income tax at all and I am
not sure how property taxes compare. On a $200k (appraised value)
home, the tax is $1687 with the homestead adjustment.. These
appraisals are intentionally low so they do not have to adjust therm
when we have a housing slump like they did a few years ago.

Here, on a $615K (appraised value) home, the taxes are $7285.

California actually is decent on property taxes. But that is because we
passed the famous Prop. 13 about 1978. The taxes were based on the price
you paid for the house and could go up 2% a year. Taxes are 1% of the
present prop. 13 value plus any local tax overrides. Voted by the
taxpayers. Comes out to about 1.2%. Of course in my area, I do not think
there are any houses that sell for as little as $600k. My taxes are about
$2200 a year. As I bought my home in 1979 for $138.5k. But there are a
lot of people in my area that are paying $20k a year in taxes or more.

On 3/8/2015 4:04 PM, Califbill wrote:
John H. wrote:
On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 12:24:00 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 07:50:48 -0700 (PDT), John H
wrote:

On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 9:30:26 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 8:46:27 AM UTC-4, John H. wrote:
On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 05:20:12 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


Besides, few South Carolinians go to Myrtle Beach. Way too many
tourists, and there are better beaches in SC to visit. We just don't advertise them.

Speaking of SC, I just did a quickie calculation of what my state
income tax would be down there. It's right at $3000 more than I pay here!

I'll have to look at property taxes. My wife thinks Charleston might be
nice. What do you think? Is the humidity atrocious?

If you went to Florida there would be no income tax at all and I am
not sure how property taxes compare. On a $200k (appraised value)
home, the tax is $1687 with the homestead adjustment.. These
appraisals are intentionally low so they do not have to adjust therm
when we have a housing slump like they did a few years ago.

Here, on a $615K (appraised value) home, the taxes are $7285.

California actually is decent on property taxes. But that is because we
passed the famous Prop. 13 about 1978. The taxes were based on the price
you paid for the house and could go up 2% a year. Taxes are 1% of the
present prop. 13 value plus any local tax overrides. Voted by the
taxpayers. Comes out to about 1.2%. Of course in my area, I do not think
there are any houses that sell for as little as $600k. My taxes are about
$2200 a year. As I bought my home in 1979 for $138.5k. But there are a
lot of people in my area that are paying $20k a year in taxes or more.


$22.6K for property taxes for us in MA. It actually went down a little
two years ago because I discovered an error in the town's tax
assessment. They were charging us the full tax rate on all of the land
but about 2 acres are wetlands as delineated by the town conservation
committee.

The savings was brief however. Went back up again last year because the
town approved, built and opened a new high school the likes of which
every college in the country would die for as their campus.

http://www.duxbury.k12.ma.us/Domain/8

On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 16:32:41 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

$22.6K for property taxes for us in MA.

===

We were paying almost that much in Westchester County, NY for a *lot*
less than what you have. If it weren't for the outrageous taxes we
might still be there.

On 3/8/2015 5:10 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 16:32:41 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

$22.6K for property taxes for us in MA.

===

We were paying almost that much in Westchester County, NY for a *lot*
less than what you have. If it weren't for the outrageous taxes we
might still be there.


Yeah, the taxes and the climate are the driving reasons for us to get
out of Dodge. We don't need this size house any longer and the rest of
the family that kept Mrs.E. here are slowly diminishing in numbers or
moving somewhere else. We took the house off the market for the heavy
winter months but will put it back on in late April or early May. At
least one of the interested parties are aware of this and are using the
time to explore financing options.

On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 16:32:41 -0400, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:

On 3/8/2015 4:04 PM, Califbill wrote:
John H. wrote:
On Sun, 08 Mar 2015 12:24:00 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 07:50:48 -0700 (PDT), John H
wrote:

On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 9:30:26 AM UTC-4, wrote:
On Sunday, March 8, 2015 at 8:46:27 AM UTC-4, John H. wrote:
On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 05:20:12 -0700 (PDT), wrote:


Besides, few South Carolinians go to Myrtle Beach. Way too many
tourists, and there are better beaches in SC to visit. We just don't advertise them.

Speaking of SC, I just did a quickie calculation of what my state
income tax would be down there. It's right at $3000 more than I pay here!

I'll have to look at property taxes. My wife thinks Charleston might be
nice. What do you think? Is the humidity atrocious?

If you went to Florida there would be no income tax at all and I am
not sure how property taxes compare. On a $200k (appraised value)
home, the tax is $1687 with the homestead adjustment.. These
appraisals are intentionally low so they do not have to adjust therm
when we have a housing slump like they did a few years ago.

Here, on a $615K (appraised value) home, the taxes are $7285.

California actually is decent on property taxes. But that is because we
passed the famous Prop. 13 about 1978. The taxes were based on the price
you paid for the house and could go up 2% a year. Taxes are 1% of the
present prop. 13 value plus any local tax overrides. Voted by the
taxpayers. Comes out to about 1.2%. Of course in my area, I do not think
there are any houses that sell for as little as $600k. My taxes are about
$2200 a year. As I bought my home in 1979 for $138.5k. But there are a
lot of people in my area that are paying $20k a year in taxes or more.


$22.6K for property taxes for us in MA. It actually went down a little
two years ago because I discovered an error in the town's tax
assessment. They were charging us the full tax rate on all of the land
but about 2 acres are wetlands as delineated by the town conservation
committee.

The savings was brief however. Went back up again last year because the
town approved, built and opened a new high school the likes of which
every college in the country would die for as their campus.

http://www.duxbury.k12.ma.us/Domain/8



Well, you've probably got three times the number of rooms we've got and a hell of a
lot bigger chunk of land.
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