(03-19-2023, 06:00 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(03-19-2023, 05:28 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Definitely not trivial but very much annoyed. 

Every property in our county (and in the state IIRC) recently went through market value appraisals and our property went from being valued at $83,410 to $127,500. This is land we inherited from hubby's grandmother when she died in 2017. It has a small house that is uninhabitable. 1/3 of the property is swamp and unusable. There are so many things wrong with the place, too many to list, it's unreal. No one in their right mind would buy it for more than maybe $65K.

And some jerktard says it's worth $127.5K? And we get to pay that major increase in taxes?! BS. 

We will be appealing this nonsense. We don't even live there. We'd sell it if there weren't issues with family that I won't go in to here.

I'm so pissed off.

North Carolina has been a destination of blue state runners for a while. When northeasterners start swelling the population, taxes rise.

The funny thing about NC is no matter who is governor it seems that fiscally it is always controlled by conservatives. 

My husband has lived here his whole life and says our county somehow keeps taxes and property values low relative to the rest of the state, or at least to comparable counties in the state. Then once in a while they go for a "cash grab" and jack prices up to the stratosphere. Thank God we're smart and put money aside in a savings account specifically to pay this tax bill every year so we're not hit with a huge payment but we will have to adjust that amount now just in case we lose our appeal.

In 2019 the taxable value of our land increased by just over $20K. We weren't the owners quite yet so we had no say though my FIL says he did appeal and they backed off. By how much, I don't know. 

This $40K plus increase is total BS. I'm getting up with my FIL this weekend to ask him how he handled it before. There is an official process and I want to know what he said to them last time. 

This [BLEEP] is why no one in this country truly owns anything except maybe the clothes on their backs. As long as they paid cash anyway. But that's a conversation for the political section.

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