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Just had mine reduced from $13,000 to $10,500. I still think $10,000 is the line.
I am under the $10K line.
We looked at a place in Head of the Harbor in March; needed work, price was right but the taxes -- town and village -- were in the $15K range. We weren't going to do that. If we were civil servants or had careers with a well-defined & secure retirement plan we could have considered it.
That's exactly what we pay in Garden City, which is a bahhh-gain here.
One of the biggest reasons we are moving. At this rate they'll be $20K a year by the time we retire. I have no intention of paying almost $2000 a month, without a mortgage!!! - of my hard-earned retirement income to support the NY civil servants.
There are still some places that are decent with taxes under $10K, but it ain't gonna last, that's for sure.
But to us it doesn't seem like that much since if we'd stayed in Queens we would have been paying NYC income tax, $1110 a month in maintenance, $150 a month for a parking space, and I'd still have had to pay to send my kids to schools that were as good as these.
$4800 here in centereach......yea schools are mediocre....but not horrible.
I'm paying $8700 in Centereach (house is 1700sqft, 1/2 arce, 1997). I know that it'll be above 9k next year - ugh. I hate it. Property taxes will be worse than rent!
Im looking on MLSLI at stuff (without Star) AND 12K isnt too far off in many cases for a decent sizes house with better than average schools.
Crooks
Why not include STAR? Its just a scam anyway. Just shifting #'s around. Whatever the STAR reduction is, the same if not more was taken away from your school district form state aid and your school district portion went up by that amount. All politics....
But to us it doesn't seem like that much since if we'd stayed in Queens we would have been paying NYC income tax, $1110 a month in maintenance, $150 a month for a parking space, and I'd still have had to pay to send my kids to schools that were as good as these.
Wow that's an eyeopener.Where in Queens? Luxury building I hope?
Seems like LI is becoming the catch basin for those who cant afford NYC these days.
Remember when moving out to LI meant you had money?
Just over 9k here in Mt. Sinai. Great schools, great neighborhood... something tells me they're headin' up soon though...
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