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Originally Posted by beckycat
...it will be more if you live in city limits than if you live in the county. They also don't have a cap so they can increase it whatever amount according to values.
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^ May be of interest to people looking to relocate to western NC, if budget is a concern.
For example, we pay ~ < $4Gs in RE taxes based on 2022, for ~ 3300 sq ft house on 3.1 acres.
If we were within the 'city limit' our RE taxes would be not quite double. We are in the County of Haywood, but not the 'city'/town of Waynesville.
That nearly double tax amount gets trash pickup at driveway, once per week; I go to the town dump once or twice a week, if I am 'down the mtn', which is not a burden, even after 21 years of doing it.
We were unaware of the considerable difference in RE tax when we bought our mtn lot and built back in 2000/2001; was just serendipity for us.
Very reasonable RE tax imo, even if we were in 'city' limits, esp for 3+ acres and house.
The OP can see ballparked RE Taxes on most RE sites vis a vis houses they are viewing, in the house data of selling price history and 'RE taxes'. Not always exact or current, but the listed selling price(s) and tax will be informative, imo.
Also, most counties, even our Haywood County, has a very informative list of 'services' & info, with sub section of RE taxes where a house owner name and/or address can be plugged in and the house appraisal, RE Taxes, sq ft, lot size, lot number, and aerial photo of house/lot can be viewed: look for GIS Data Downloads for most county info, though it will take some digging down on most public county's sites...
The Internet and some digging are one's friend for info gathering, in my experience.
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