Posted on 07/30/2023 6:46:24 AM PDT by george76
In Nebraska most of my property taxes goes to the schools. They build huge new schools with pools, football fields, auditoriums, basketball gyms. Separate wrestling gyms, weight rooms fully equipped with top dollar equipment, and my old high school is buying a baseball field and stadium from the city. $$ it’s fun spending other people’s money right ?
In Florida we have a ‘save our homes’ law so property taxes are capped to a certain rate as long as you live in your home. The home I live in has property taxes of less than $4,000 a year - another home I own (Zillow has them close in value) costs over $12,000 a year for property taxes. Basically you’re not going to be taxed out of the home you live in if you live there a long time... (oh and you can move that ‘save our homes’ tax break if you sell your home and buy another home within two years. )
Simple solution. Calif. Prop 13(1978). Could they do it in Colorado? Do they have the initiative process there?
People who didn’t vote registered for the first time. We could get a senate senate seat out of it.
Ok, but don't the folks have a say on that? The sad fact is, people love that stuff, so what are you going to do?
Precisely. It's a spending problem, and (thank the Lord) local governments can't just print $$.
Florida is not a Blue State. CA has a similar law though, but it was voted in after Jimmy Carter interest rates was making home ownership nearly impossible and growth was increasing rapidly. The CA law is just about moot, now due to the crazy growth. I hear that there are still neighborhoods in Orange County, where people have hung on to their houses, well into retirement because they couldn’t afford the taxes on a new place.
First off, the valuation is meaningless. In fact it works for a seller, because he can point to the high valuation. And the buyer thinks he bought it at a hefty discount. mind games.
There real issue is the total tax bill. Yes the valuation is related, I understand.
Here in Iowa the valuation has been pretty close to fmv. But this is only true in a stable situation. It is easy to challenge as we in the rural areas are a little closer to our county govt.
Countys can raise the rate of taxation or the value of the property. Which is easier to sell to the public?
The beauty of the Florida system -- we can sell our existing home - and as long as we buy another home within two years - we can 'move' the tax benefit to our new home.
and people keep voting in levies and other taxes.....
this will eventually force us off our 30+ country home....
That county is about 70% Dem.
you think you have say over where your property tax goes?.....think again...
Florida will be Red until that next big Hurricane hits South Florida.
Florida was riding high in the 1920s, until the 1926 hurricane sent the State into a depression for years.
we need a credit or a deduction for being long time tax paying home owners....paying property taxes over 30 yrs on a place should get us some kind of large deduction, that and we are seniors....
See, there was no protection built into the CA law. The new tax increases are all part of the Great Reset.
Colorado should have less California refugees. That's the real problem.
“Don’t adjust the values, adjust the rate.”
Adjust the values AND adjust the rate.
It’s all dems out there. We had a summer house in the sangre de Cristo mountains in Costilla county from 2004-2017. It was beautiful but Hickenlooper was voted governor and allowed the drugs to pour in and with it was every derelict from everywhere. They squatted in the mountains in their pickup truck campers, box cars tents you name it. The Rio grande became a sewer . People crapped in 5 gallon buckets. I saw people come to the reservoir where I was fishing and fill up those big water cooler bottles and take them back with them. After we sold in 2018 they had that big fire called the Spring fire started by a homeless guy (illegal immigrant) cooking in the mountains, living out of his truck. It burned over 108,000 acres. Our old house didn’t catch fire but the new occupants were evacuated. I bet it’s even worse now. There’s a ton of places in those mountains to hide. We were blessed to have sold and got our money and left.
They voted for the party you would assume a county which is just about majority-Mexican would vote for. But those voters very likely are not the ones who pay property taxes; it's mainly the Trump voters.
Election results for Costilla County, CO
As that page shows, the last time Costilla voted GOP for President was 99 years ago.
Colorado is enjoying the prosperity that people that have moved from blue states are bringing them.
they all should flood the appeals process established by Colorado law ... starts with an appeal of the assessor, which almost always fails ... then one can appeal that to the county Board of Equalization, which is usually the County Commission itself ... by that point, everything is so jammed up, they’ll do practically anything to dispose of the cases quickly ... I did this a few years ago, and finally got a call from the County on SUNDAY with a “compromise” offer ... I refused and they instantly caved and said, OK, and accepted the value that i had originally submitted with beaucoup documentation ...
it takes a bit of research and effort to do this, but whinging and hand-wringing is easier for most people ...
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